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Human Rights Organisations

Bahai in Iran and Egypt

Iran Violates Bahai Human Rights Bahai World News Service, 9 October 2008 Note: This report, updated regularly, is provided as a service to news media and others desiring details of the situation of the Baha’is in Iran. All...

Rights Body Urges Bahrain to Abolish Death Penalty

MANAMA —Bahrain was urged to abolish death penalty from its panel code law after the activation of the punishment few years ago. The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRW) marked the World Day Against Death Penalty on Friday...

Amnesty calls for end to operation in FATA

Sunday, October 12, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE The Amnesty International has called for an immediate end to the ongoing military operation in the tribal areas in which thousands of innocent people have been killed. He...

What Rep. Lagman tells us HB 5043, if enacted, will do

Oct. 12--THE controversial population control legislation called the "RH Bill" is slowly turning into a religious war of sorts. The Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development Bill is now crawling to...

Doctor comes to aid of Amnesty

David Tennant spells out rights in introduction to new picture book By Toby McDonald DOCTOR WHO faces a new challenge - saving the Earth from tyranny. Timelord David Tennant is spelling out every child and adult's rights in the...

Russian human rights activists accuse Nobel Committee of pandering to Kremlin

Russia's human rights community accused the Nobel Committee of pandering to the Kremlin after Lidia Yusupova, a leading activist who exposed abuses in Chechnya, was overlooked for this year's peace prize. By Adrian Blomfield in...

Unanswered Phone Calls in Venezuela: Human Rights Watch Exposes Hugo Chavez Yet Again

Friday, October 10, 2008 Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently published a 230 page report on Venezuela entitled ""A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela,"

Censorship Isn't Good for China's Health

Media freedom should be one legacy of Beijing's Olympics. Hong Kong As the world watched the fireworks of the Beijing Games' opening ceremony, the seeds of China's latest deadly public health disaster were being sown. This...

Unchecked Gun Trade Fuels Conflict, Poverty: UN Treaty Seen As Urgent

UNITED NATIONS -- With 1.3 trillion dollars spent every year on the world's militaries, countries enmeshed in conflict are often flooded by weapons which are then turned against helpless civilian populations, say human rights...

Amnesty wants death penalty abolished

HYDERABAD: The Amnesty International India (AII) has reiterated its demand to abolish death penalty in the country. It was inhuman to execute human beings in a civilised country. It was high time the country eliminated section...

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