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Human Rights & Minorities

Judge Schofield Fights On for the Cause of Justice

Posted to the web 13 October 2008 David Okwemba Nairobi Mr Justice DEREK SCHOFIELD, the suspended Chief Justice of Gibraltar, served as a High Court judge in Kenya and left the country under controversial circumstances in 1987....

Rwanda: Gacaca Court to Hear Former Accountant's Appeal

The appeal of Jean de Dieu Munyengabe, alias Padiri, 55, will begin Monday before the Appellate Court of the Kibungo sector and has already caused quarrels between survivors of the genocide, reports Hirondelle Agency.

Uganda: Using Child Beggars is Criminal

Posted to the web 13 October 2008 Jonas Mbabazi Kampala UGANDA is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the African Charter for the Rights and the Welfare of the Child. Under these conventions,...

Voter Guide To Human Rights And Civil Liberties

Voter Election Guide to Human Rights and Civil Liberties Find out how the candidates compare on a range of issues from torture to wrongful convictions. By AlterNet Posted October 11, 2008 There's no question the Bush...

Survivor of Rwandan genocide shares story at SNC

Prayer, forgiveness helped carry Tutsi woman through tragedy By Paul Srubas • psrubas@greenbaypressgazette.com • October 13, 2008 DE PERE — Her story is one of unimaginable terror and hardship, but when Immaculee Ilibagiza...

McCain's Armenia Problem (full article)

The Atlantic Monthly October 8, 2008 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810u/armenian-american-vote McCain's Armenia Problem by Daniel Nichanian Eight years ago, George W. Bush was battling an unexpectedly competitive John...

Longtime state Sen. Allan Spear dies

by Elizabeth Dunbar, Associated Press St. Paul, Minn. — (AP) - Allan H. Spear, a former state Senate president who became one of the first openly gay legislators in the country, has died. He was 71. Spear died Saturday of...

One in five women living in fear

AS many as 213,000 women in Ireland are victims of domestic violence and are living in fear. Women's Aid, the support organisation, is warning that for one in seven women this abuse is severe. It is appealing to individuals and...

Timba Weighs in on KMAL Battle

PATTERSON Timba's Africa First ReNaissance Corporation (Afre) took a giant step this week to block Kingdom Meikles Africa Limited (KMAL) majority shareholder, John Moxon, from convening an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) at...

Call for More Doctors to Help End Organ Pillaging by Chinese Regime

Over the last two years David Matas and David Kilgour have travelled the world seeking support to press China’s communist regime to stop harvesting and selling the organs of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.