Archive for the 'Human Rights' Category
Tribute paid to ‘courageous and inspiring woman’
Amnesty International has strongly condemned today’s murder of Natalia Estemirova, a leading human rights activist working in the North Caucasus region.
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said:
‘Natalia Estemirova’s murder is a consequence of the impunity that has been allowed to persist by the Russian and Chechen authorities.
‘Human rights violations [...]
Inspired by Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi’s brave promise last week to represent in court the family of Neda Agha-Soltan, murdered by Iranian militia during last weekend’s demonstrations in a rally in Tehran, the peace group CODEPINK has created a letter addressed to Ebadi for women worldwide to sign, a pledge of solidarity to [...]
Two Burmese women’s organizations in the Indo-Burmese border town of Moreh were forced to cancel a planned protest rally to be held on Friday after authorities pressured the officer who had issued permission for the rally to cancel the authorization.
The Kuki Women’s Human Rights Organisation (KWHRO) and the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) sought permission [...]
Joint Statement By Malaysian Civil Society On PAS Resolution To Ban Sisters In Islam
We the undersigned are deeply disturbed by the call on the part of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) to have Sisters in Islam (SIS) banned and its members rehabilitated should its activities be determined to be contrary to the Islamic shariah. [...]
Women’s organizations have called for gender equality education for all in society starting from the top levels, including the president and the prime minister, and down to the bottom, including private citizens, police officers, judges and prosecutors in the wake of a landmark European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision that punished Turkey for failing [...]
The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) described the criminalisation of abortion under any circumstances in Nicaragua as a violation of human rights.
At its 42nd session in Geneva, the CAT expressed its profound concern about Nicaragua’s strict ban on abortion, urging the government to repeal the 2006 law that banned therapeutic abortion and to make [...]
Women in Afghanistan are routinely denied basic human rights, including education, healthcare, freedom from violence, and freedom of movement. Afghan women who fight to change this reality are attacked and even assassinated by ultra-conservatives.
Meanwhile, US airstrikes that kill civilians further endanger Afghan women and their families. They also increase the power of the Taliban [...]
Burma’s democracy leader and Nobel Peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been locked up on new trumped up charges, just days before her 13 years of detention was due to expire. She and thousands of fellow monks and students have been imprisoned for bravely challenging the brutal military regime with peaceful calls for [...]
Women’s rights groups have urged the establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in Zimbabwe as part of bringing to justice people who committed human rights violations – including sexual abuse against women – during the run-up to a second-round presidential vote in June 2008.
Zimbabwe witnessed some of its worst-ever political violence after then-opposition [...]
• Two gunmen behind killing in Kandahar
• Legislator’s colleagues had warned her of attack
A leading female Afghan politician was shot dead yesterday after leaving a provincial council meeting in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, which her colleagues had begged her not to attend.
Sitara Achakzai was attacked by two gunmen as she arrived at her home in a [...]
Women hold just 18 percent of parliament seats
Women hold just over 18 percent of the seats in parliaments around the world, a 60 percent increase since 1995 but a long distance from equality with men in national legislative bodies, the Inter-Parliamentary Union said Thursday in its annual report card. Continues at http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/05/news/UN-UN-Women-Parliamentarians.php
Women in power in [...]
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women’s commitment to work for equality and justice for all people.
The landscape for women’s rights has changed dramatically over the past century. In 2009, the issue is less about women’s legal status — although many countries do still have discriminatory laws on their books — and more [...]
A woman diagnosed with HIV has filed a complaint against Chile before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an international human rights body, charging that the government failed to protect her from being forcibly sterilized at a state hospital immediately after she gave birth. In a petition submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights and [...]
At least half of the women and girls in Africa are still living in some form of bondage despite the fact that the world marked the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights only about a month ago.
Experts on gender empowerment, poverty reduction and women rights advocacy said women and girls were [...]
Today, 10 December 2008, marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly. The UDHR is a major achievement of the United Nations, setting a common human rights standard for all nations and peoples. Its legally binding International Covenant on Civil and Political [...]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns 60 on 10 December 2008.
On Human Rights Day 2007, the United Nations Secretary General launched a year-long UN system-wide advocacy campaign to mark this important milestone. The initiative celebrates the Declaration and the promise that has made this document so enduring: “Dignity and justice for all of [...]
It happened in the blink of an eye and with military precision. At precisely 1pm a handful of women walked to the middle of a busy junction in central Harare and began chanting antigovernment slogans.
Scores of other women lurking on the nearby pavements streamed in to join them, hoisting placards demanding action to end [...]
In an unusual move, Judge Anne Gowora said they should hunt for campaigner Jestina Mukoko in all places of detention where they have jurisdiction.
Police deny holding Ms Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, who disappeared last Wednesday.
The opposition leader said he held President Mugabe responsible for her.
Speaking from neighbouring Botswana, the [...]
Betancourt is the French-Colombian politician who was kidnapped in 2002 and held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas, better known as Farc, in the Colombian jungle for six years – then released in a dramatic rescue operation in July.
When Betancourt stepped on to the tarmac of Bogotá airport in the summer to [...]
A march by feminists and human-rights groups to denounce violence against women became a victim itself of state repression this week when National Police blocked the demonstration apparently on orders from the Sandinista leadership.
In commemoration of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov. 25, a group of some 400 women and [...]
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