Human Rights Violations

EasyJet magazine 'trivialises genocide' with Holocaust memorial fashion shoot

EasyJet, the budget airline, has been accused of trivialising genocide after its in-flight magazine featured fashion photographs shot at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. The November issue of easyJet In-flight contained two...

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Harassment case executive 'sunk into depression when annual bonus withheld'

A young female executive who is suing her multi-millionaire financier boss for discrimination sunk into depression when her annual bonus was withheld, a tribunal has heard. Jordan Wimmer, 29, is claiming £4 million from Mark...

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Shutting office over Christmas is 'indirect discrimination' against other religions

Shutting the office over Christmas could be seen as discriminatory by followers of some religions, according to a leading employers’ group. The group says there is no reason for companies to avoid celebrating Christmas for fear...

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Tamil Torture

Six months after the end of the Sri Lankan army’s assault on Tamil Tiger-controlled territory in northern Sri Lanka (See SchNEWS 676), over a quarter of a million Tamils remain incarcerated in internment camps. Conditions in...

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Rwanda genocide survivors may boycott U.N. court

KIGALI (Reuters) - Survivor groups from Rwanda's 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the U.N. tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court's recent acquittals of two genocide suspects.

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A child porter dreams of returning school in Sudan

by Faez el Zaki Hassan KHARTOUM, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Early in the morning, 14-year-oldAdam Abakar leaves his house south of the capital city and heads for Khartoum's central market to work as a porter. "Every day when I leave...

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Ordeal of girl whose mother 'only knew the African way' of discipline

Tortured: A girl of 12 kept a diary of the sadistic punishment rituals her mother subjected her to A girl of 12 kept a diary of the mental and physical torture she suffered at the hands of her mother, who believed in the...

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Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same in so many ways

R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened in Afghanistan under his command and the former chief of defence staff talks about what...

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Counterinsurgency by the book

Forces manual issued last year spells out why winning locals' trust is key to stopping insurgents – and why torture puts that at risk Campbell Clark Ottawa — From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009...

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Child labor rises as Palestinian children lose faith in learning

By Matern Boeselager Special to The Daily Star Saturday, November 21, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: Palestinian children in the camps of Lebanon are losing faith in the value of an education, with record...

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