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Rights group slams NATO, others for deaths at sea
BRUSSELS — Europe’s premier human rights watchdog is blaming NATO, Libyan authorities, and people smugglers for the deaths at sea of 63 people fleeing the Libyan war in March 2011. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe said Tuesday
Rights group: Kenya police executed terror suspect
By TOM ODULAAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Armed men pulled two passengers off a bus on the Kenyan coast earlier this month. The body of one man was found two days later with his eyes gorged out, nose chopped
HRW reports on rights abuses in Sudan’s Blue Nile
Human Rights Watch For Immediate Release *** Video available at: http://youtu.be/BDV59hlFHHI *** Footage available for download at: http://hrwnews.org/distribute/2012A… Sudan: Blue Nile Civilians Describe Attacks, Abuses Reports of Indiscriminate Bombings, Killings, Detentions Should be Investigated (Juba, April 23, 2012) – Civilians
International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes Condemn Imprisonment …
Vienna — Twenty international journalists who have been recognised as World Press Freedom Heroes by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) have condemned the Ethiopian government’s decision to jail Eskinder Nega and other journalists on terrorism charges, and called for
Disempowerment and Suppression of Freedoms in Ethiopia – Salem
Apr-23-2012 23:00 Graham Peebles Special to Salem-News.com Meles’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), is in fact a dictatorship masquerading under the guise of a democracy. (LONDON) – The increasingly paranoid regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister
Roadside Bomb in Beledweyn Leads to Summary Executions
Beledweyn — A roadside bomb killed at least 2 Ethiopian troops witnesses say and injured 7 others in Beledweyne and was followed by 3 men being gunned down by Ethiopian troops, Radio Garowe reports. The roadside bomb was planted by
Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture
Torture on Trial: Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture by David SwansonPublished in the May / June 2012 Humanisthttp://thehumanist.org/may-june-2012/torture-on-trial-legal-and-humane-frameworks-for-opposing-torture/ Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was
SRI LANKA: AFAD condemns harassments of disappeared journalist wife Sandya …
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances. For inquiries, please contact to Ms. Mary Aileen Bacalso from the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, by email (afad@surfshop.net.ph ). Asian Human
Sudan: Blue Nile Civilians Describe Attacks, Abuses – Reports of …
Juba — Civilians are bearing the brunt of abuses in Sudan’s simmering border conflict in Blue Nile state, Human Rights Watch said today, based on a research trip in April 2012 into Blue Nile. As in neighboring Southern Kordofan, which
Oromia-Europe: A Call for Demonstration and Conference – Gadaa.com Oduu
A demonstration, to protest against current land-grabbing and human vights violation in Oromia, is organized in Brussels by members of Oromo communities in Europe for 27 April 2012 – followed by a conference on 28 April 2012. You are, therefore,
