Iraq film festival aims to promote human rights
A human rights film festival held in Baghdad is aiming to educate and mobilise citizens at a time when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government has been accused of sliding toward authoritarianism.Continue Reading
Human Rights Film Festival to Launch in Montreal
TORONTO , Feb. 27, 2012 /CNW/ – JHR (Journalists for Human Rights) has partnered with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) to bring DocFest to Montreal . DocFest is an annual film festival coordinated …Continue Reading
Libya: Militia Should Transfer Journalists to State
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A Tripoli-based militia from Misrata should immediately transfer to the Libyan government two illegally detained British journalists and the three Libyans who were traveling with them. T…Continue Reading
Libya: Militia Should Transfer Journalists to State
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A Tripoli-based militia from Misrata should immediately transfer to the Libyan government two illegally detained British journalists and the three Libyans who were traveling with them. T…Continue Reading
UN Human Rights Council to discuss Syria Tuesday
Geneva, Feb 27 (IANS) The United Nations' Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will hold an urgent debate on Syria Tuesday.Continue Reading
Justices weigh foreigners' suits vs. companies
Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off in a Supreme Court fight over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can haul multinational companies into American courts and try to prove they were complicit in the a…Continue Reading
Living Rights Project adds a human face to human rights
TORONTO , Feb. 27, 2012 /CNW/ – Ontario Human Rights Commission Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall today launched the Living Rights Project, a web-based living library that puts real people into the human …Continue Reading
UNESCO: Eliminate Obiang Prize
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UNESCO’s governing executive board should abolish a prize named after and funded by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea at its upcoming meeting. The board …Continue Reading
Iran objects to holding U.N. rights debate on Syria
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran has objected to the U.N. Human Rights Council holding an emergency debate on the violence and repression in its ally Syria, as requested by Arab and Western states, the Geneva forum's president said on Monday. Qatar marked t…Continue Reading
Syrie. Combien de sang devra encore être versé avant que le monde n’apporte son secours?
Depuis la frontière avec la Syrie, le chercheur d’Amnesty International Neil Sammonds révèle dans cet article au contenu très dur l’ampleur des tortures subies par ceux qui ont été arrêtés en Syrie.
De son lit d’hôpital à al…Continue Reading
Taking a human rights approach to climate change
GENEVA, 24 February (IRIN) – Many of the countries that have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions will be the worst affected by global warming, a “climate injustice” that highlights the link to human rights, experts told a Human Rights…Continue Reading
OPINION: Human rights take on climate change
Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) – Climate change is also a human rights issue, as indicated by the seminar organised by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week.Continue Reading
OPINION: Human rights take on climate change
Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) – Climate change is also a human rights issue, as indicated by the seminar organised by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week.Continue Reading
OPINION: Human rights take on climate change
Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) – Climate change is also a human rights issue, as indicated by the seminar organised by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week.Continue Reading
Baghdad film festival turns eye to human rights
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – In a country where there still isn't a single public cinema, where detainees complain of torture and militants blow people up because of their sect, supporters of Iraq's first human rights film festival know they face a toug…Continue Reading