PERU: Native Groups Protest Laws Facilitating Sales of Land

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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights | 08/19/08 20:46

LIMA, Aug 19 (IPS) - Defending the state of emergency declared in three provinces in Peru to crack down on protests by indigenous communities against a law facilitating the sale of their community-owned lands, Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo said the government was safeguarding "the rights of the great majority...

  MALAYSIA: Crackdown on Civil Rights, Media Feared

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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights | 08/19/08 14:29

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (IPS) - A series of tough measures in recent weeks has raised fears of a major crackdown against tolerance and dissent as rival political forces battle for state power in a society made fragile by economic uncertainties and decades of autocratic rule.

  RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Firing Squads Silent - But Death Hovers

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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights | 08/19/08 9:58

CASABLANCA, Morocco, Aug 19 (IPS) - Morocco's death row prisoners -- some 150 inmates -- are living in sub-human, "life-threatening conditions", according to leading NGOs and rights activists.

  RIGHTS-US: Arar Faces Uphill Legal Battle

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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights | 08/18/08 17:59

NEW YORK, Aug 18 (IPS) - After suffering a series of stinging defeats of its detention policies in four years of Supreme Court decisions, the George W. Bush administration may be in for yet more bad news.

  Georgia: International Groups Should Send Missions

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Human Rights Watch News Releases | 08/17/08 0:00

Investigate Violations and Protect Civilians (Tbilisi, August 18, 2008) – Mounting evidence that Russian and Georgian military used armed force unlawfully during the South Ossetian conflict highlights the need for international fact-finding missions in Georgia, Human Rights Watch said today. Ongoing militia attacks and...

  RIGHTS: Tortuous Road to Justice in Inter-American System

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IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America | 08/16/08 2:29

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 15 (IPS) - Financial costs and lack of information are the main hurdles that public defenders must overcome in order to bring cases before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, which ended its XXXV extraordinary period of sessions Friday in the Uruguayan capital.

  RIGHTS: Tortuous Road to Justice in Inter-American System

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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights | 08/16/08 1:47

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 15 (IPS) - Financial costs and lack of information are the main hurdles that public defenders must overcome in order to bring cases before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, which ended its XXXV extraordinary period of sessions Friday in the Uruguayan capital.

  China: End Abuses of Media Freedom

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Human Rights Watch News Releases | 08/14/08 0:00

IOC Should Investigate and Publicize Abuses The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should turn words into action and immediately establish a reporting mechanism for violations of media freedoms in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch and other groups have documented many violations of China’s...

  Georgia: Russian Cluster Bombs Kill Civilians

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Human Rights Watch News Releases | 08/14/08 0:00

Stop Using Weapon Banned by 107 Nations Human Rights Watch researchers have uncovered evidence that Russian aircraft dropped cluster bombs in populated areas in Georgia, killing at least 11 civilians and injuring dozens, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called upon Russia to immediately stop using...

  POLITICS-INDIA: Exploiting Terrorism

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IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights | 08/13/08 9:57

BANGALORE, Aug 13 (IPS) - In the aftermath of the spate of serial bomb blasts that rocked Ahmedabad in western India and the southern city of Bangalore, late July, prominent civil rights activists, advocates and experts have criticised the government, for political interference in and misuse of the country’s counter-t...