News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 69
POLITICS-PAKISTAN: Court Ruling May Deepen Political Crisis
- Inter Press Service
The political chasm in crisis-riddled Pakistan has deepened after a Supreme Court ruling barred from political office opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab - the country’s most populous and powerful province.
PAKISTAN: Time Running Out to Restore Stability - U.S. Report
- Inter Press Service
The United States and its allies must act urgently to prevent Pakistan - the only predominantly Muslim nation with nuclear weapons - from descending into a spiral of economic, security, and political crises, according to a new report released here by an influential think tank.
POLITICS: Many Muslims Reject Terror Tactics, Back Some Goals
- Inter Press Service
Strong majorities of people in predominantly Muslim countries reject terrorism but support key goals of Al Qaeda, notably expelling U.S. military forces from the Islamic world, according to a major new study of public opinion in seven nations and the Palestinian territories released here Wednesday.
RIGHTS-US: What About Bagram?
- Inter Press Service
While human rights and legal advocacy groups applauded President Barack Obama’s decision to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year, many immediately raised another thorny question: 'What about Bagram?'
U.S.: Report Contradicts Govt Claims of 'Humane' Detention
- Inter Press Service
A leading human rights organisation charges that contrary to recent U.S. government reports that found prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being treated humanely, they are in fact 'deteriorating at a rapid rate' due to 'harsh conditions that continue to this day, despite a few cosmetic changes to their routines.'
CHILE: Gov't Unleashes Anti-Terror Law on Mapuche Activist
- Inter Press Service
'They burst in aiming machine guns at us. They found him in the hallway, they grabbed him by the hair, they threw him on the floor and they beat him up,' Ida Huenulef told IPS, describing the arrest of her son Miguel, the first indigenous Mapuche activist to be charged under the Anti-Terrorist Law by the government of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
Q&A: Fighting 'the Dark Side of Globalised Society'
- Inter Press Service
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, known for prosecuting alleged tyrants, terrorists and perpetrators of corruption, believes that progress toward a global justice system began in 1996, with the trials in Madrid of Argentine and Chilean torturers, and especially with the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in October 1998.
MIDEAST: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege
- Inter Press Service
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama must take a leadership position in championing human rights in the Middle East and North Africa by using U.S. economic and trade leverage and confronting the growing global threat of authoritarianism being promoted by Arab regimes, advocates say.
CHINA: Khmer Rouge Trials Raise Ghosts of the Past
- Inter Press Service
The skeletons are tumbling out of China’s cupboard of buried memories. The 30th anniversary of China’s brief but bloody war with Vietnam may have gone unmarked but for the fact that Feb.17 also saw the start of the trial of the chief torturer of Cambodia’s grisly Khmer Rouge.
U.S.: Calls Mount for Obama to Appoint 'Truth Commission'
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen U.S. human rights groups Thursday joined a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a retired top diplomat in calling on President Barack Obama to appoint a non-partisan commission of leading citizens to examine and report on the treatment of detainees held by the United States during President George W. Bush's 'global war on terror.'
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