EU should press Croatia on disability rights
One of the two key ‘chapters’ of negotiations that Croatia must close before it can join the EU is, as you have written, the chapter on the judiciary and fundamental rights ("Approaching the finishing line", 4-10 November).
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UN Finds Canada and Ontario Violate Human Rights
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND–(Marketwire – 11/18/10) – The UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) has ruled that Canada and Ontario, through Ontario’s ban on farm unions, violate the human rights of the more than 100,000 migrant and domestic agriculture …Continue Reading
Deloitte Achieves 100 Percent Rating on Human Rights Campaign’s 2011 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for Fifth …
Deloitte today announced it has earned a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for the fifth consecutive year. Â The CEI ranks businesses on workplace policies and benefits provided to their lesbian, gay, bisexual …Continue Reading
US: Ghailani Trial Shows Federal Courts Up to the Task
(New York) – The trial without incident of a former Guantanamo detainee in US federal court shows the superiority of civilian courts over the discredited military commissions, Human Rights Watch said today. Ahmed Khalfan Ghaila
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Libya: Carry Out UN Calls for Reform
(London) – Libya’s rejection of United Nations Human Rights Council proposals casts serious doubt on the government’s professed commitment to reform, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.
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Egypt blogger released after 4 years in jail
An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group and an interior ministry source said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Sweden slams EU court for Iraqi asylum reviews
Sweden’s immigration authority has criticized the European Court of Human Rights for being inefficient in handling complaints from Iraqi asylum-seekers.Continue Reading
Egypt blogger released after 4 years in jail: rights group
An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Egypt blogger released after 4 years in jail: rights group
An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Philippines: Local Ruling Family’s Abuses Implicate Government
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9/11 Justice for New Yorkers
As the Obama administration contemplates where to try the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants, there could be no better way to repudiate the unlawful counter-terrorism policies of the Bush administration than to …Continue Reading
US ‘gravely concerned’ at Iran’s crackdown on rights lawyers
The United States said Tuesday it was “gravely concerned” about Iran’s alleged crackdown on human rights lawyers and called for the release of all those who have been detained.Continue Reading
Sweden halts deportation of Iraqis
STOCKHOLM – Sweden has temporarily halted the deportations of about 30 Iraqi asylum-seekers after criticism from human rights groups.Continue Reading
US ‘gravely concerned’ at Iran’s crackdown on rights lawyers
The United States said Tuesday it was “gravely concerned” about Iran’s alleged crackdown on human rights lawyers and called for the release of all those who have been detained.Continue Reading
A Tough—and Dangerous—Way to Spend a Childhood
"Marcos" was 12 when he started cutting Christmas trees in North Carolina. He sometimes skipped school, he told me, wielded a chainsaw and breathed pesticides. Summers he harvested tomatoes and cut strawberry roots. No one ever asked him how …Continue Reading