News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1793
POLITICS-THAILAND: Business as Usual - Parliamentarians for Sale
- Inter Press Service
A group of leading politicians head for a secret meeting with the powerful army chief as part of a plot to form a new government. But their plans go awry when they get lost in the sprawling military compound.
RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Abolition Activists Failing to Stir Campuses
- Inter Press Service
Anti-death penalty activists have yet to carry through their plan for a new boost of campaigning in Moroccan universities, facing a combination of outright hostility and political apathy from some students.
MEXICO: Attempt to Revive Death Penalty Doomed
- Inter Press Service
A proposed constitutional amendment introduced in the Mexican Congress to reinstate the death penalty stands virtually no chance of approval. But it has generated a broad public debate that is expected to grow more heated.
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Activists Celebrate Being Heard at UN
- Inter Press Service
Activists from more than 1,000 human rights groups and other civil society organisations who followed the live Internet transmission of this week’s United Nations Human Rights Council’s review of the situation in this country at a university auditorium in the Colombian capital shared the sensation that their voices had finally been heard.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Is the Canary in the Coalmine
- Inter Press Service
Nearly 1,000 scientists and representatives of indigenous peoples from 16 countries have braved a major winter storm to share their findings and concerns about the rapidly warming Arctic region at the International Arctic Change conference in Quebec City.
DEATH PENALTY-SIERRA LEONE: Successful Appeal Strengthens Case For Abolition
- Inter Press Service
A court in Sierra Leone has overturned treason convictions for 11 men. It is the first successful appeal against a death penalty in that country, opening the possibility of an eventual end to capital punishment there.
DEATH PENALTY: Arab Cyber Project to have New Year Launch
- Inter Press Service
The Rights and People project -- an Arabic-language anti-death penalty venture -- will start work in early 2009 with the launch of an online magazine, the first of its kind run by human rights activists in the 24-country region.
RIGHTS: U.S. Arms Deployed in Wars Around the Globe
- Inter Press Service
Pundits these days warn of a Middle East arms race if Iran brings its alleged nuclear weapons programme to fruition, while others fear that missile defence in Eastern Europe could spark escalation involving Russia.
RIGHTS: Less Freedom in Older Democracies
- Inter Press Service
The older the democracy, the less there seems to be now of freedom of expression and right to information, according to a new study by the London-based group Article 19.
RIGHTS: Europe Goes Slow on Gay Laws
- Inter Press Service
European Union governments are in no hurry to widen the scope of the bloc's anti-discrimination rules so that gays and lesbians can enjoy greater rights.
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