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Council of Europe to step up efforts for LGBT rights

pinknews.co.uk     10 hrs ago          

Campaigners have hailed as a "very important development" a decision by the Council of Europe to step up efforts to protect the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people. At the 1,031st meeting of the Committee of...

Mexico looks for "dirty war" graves on army base (Reuters)

yahoo.com     4 hrs ago   9 related          

By Gerardo Torres 28 minutes ago ATOYAC DE ALVAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Using high-tech scanners, picks and shovels, they searched for bodies of community leaders who were abducted by soldiers, taken to the isolated base at the...

Congo-Kinshasa: International Criminal Court Suspends Release of Rebel Leader

allafrica.com     8 hrs ago   20 related          

Posted to the web 8 July 2008 The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has suspended the release of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese rebel militia leader accused of recruiting child soldiers. Last week,...

Congolese rebel to remain jailed

upi.com     2 hrs ago   3 related          

Published: July 8, 2008 at 9:41 PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 8 (UPI) -- An international court's appeals panel has stayed a decision to free a Congolese rebel leader accused of recruiting child soldiers, court officials say....

G8 Leaders Agree To Place Slap Zimbabwe With Stricter Sanctions

The subject of the crisis in Zimbabwe continues to be a hot issue at the G8 summit as the G8 leaders has urged the UN to put stricter sanctions upon the country. It could be a different story at the UN Security Council meeting.

Genocide suspect arrested

news24.com     6 hrs ago   4 related          

Berlin - Rwandan war crimes suspect Callixte Mbarushimana, a former UN employee wanted for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, has been arrested in Frankfurt, a prosecutor in the German city said on Tuesday. "He...

European Court Proceedings Over Dubrovka To Be Closed

sptimes.ru     11 hrs ago   1 related          

Staff Writer MOSCOW — Pending hearings at Europe’s top human rights court into the 2002 hostage crisis at Moscow’s Dubrovka theater will be closed to the public at the request of Russian authorities. The European Court of Human...

European court OKS Turkey’s election threshold

In a key verdict announced yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights rejected an appeal from two former deputies against Turkey's 10 percent election threshold, saying the limitation does not constitute a rights violation...

Turkey convicted in ‘immunity' case

todayszaman.com     7 hrs ago          

The European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday that Turkey has violated Republican People's Party (CHP) Konya deputy Atilla Kart's right to a fair trial by reason of his parliamentary immunity. The case concerned Kart's...

ICTR to allow conjugal visits for detainees

pitt.edu     11 hrs ago   2 related          

JURIST] Genocide suspects held at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] will now be able to receive conjugal visits, court officials said Saturday. Court spokesman Roland Amoussouga said that...

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