Human Rights

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• The European Court of Human Rights has given its final approval for the extradition of five major terrorism suspects from the UK to the US.
  25 September 2012, by siawi3

  In a statement, the Strasbourg court said: "On 10 April 2012 the European Court of Human Rights held, in the case of Babar Ahmad and Others v. the United Kingdom, that there would be no violation of the applicants’ rights if extradited to stand trial in the United States.

• UN Says Brutality Against Afghan Women ’Intolerable’
  27 September 2012, by siawi3

  Michelle Bachelet, executive director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), said in a statement that recent weeks have witnessed cases of “extreme abuse and appalling violence against women.”
  They include the torture and rape of a young woman by Afghan police and the public execution of a young woman, reportedly by the Taliban.
  Bachelet said such brutality is “intolerable” and called on the Afghan government to bring the perpetrators to justice, put an end to a culture of impunity, and create a culture of zero tolerance of violence and discrimination against women.

• Afghanistan: Dreaming of Duvets
  24 October 2012, by siawi3

  Afghan people have a saying. We dream dreams and nothing comes
  of our dreams. But still we keep dreaming.

• Rights watchdog fears for freedoms under draft Egypt constitution
  17 October 2012, by siawi3

  Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s Heba Morayef expresses concern over constitutional draft articles that she says could infringe upon rights of women, minorities in Egypt

• Rights group recounts Gadhafi’s last bloody moments, calls for justice
  18 October 2012, by siawi3

  HRW says the militiamen who ravaged Gadhafi and captured, tortured and killed his loyalists are possibly responsible for war crimes because killing someone in detention is recognized as such under international law. HRW lambastes Libya’s current transitional government, saying it has taken no serious steps in investigating or prosecuting anti-Gadhafi militias.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting history and giving back to Caesar...
  20 October 2012, by siawi3

  The idea that different peoples were endowed with separate rights would have seemed absurd in the middle of the twentieth century to those struggling against colonial oppression or trying to build new nations. ‘It was imperative that the peoples of the world should recognize the existence of a code of civilized behavior which would apply not only in international relations but also in domestic affairs’, said Begum Shaista Ikramullah, a member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan and a delegate of the UN in 1948. The desire for emancipation of all, emphasising that rights applied to everyone everywhere, emerged as a major concern. Significant additions were made by newly de-colonised states regarding, slavery, discrimination, the rights of women and the right to national self determination.

• Le comité de soutien aux travailleuses de la l’ENTV chaine 4
  3 octobre 2012, par siawi3

  Declaration de 6 importantes organisations de femmes, au sujet d’un proces crucial concernant un cas d’harcelement sexuel en Algerie.

• Algeria: The support committee for the women workers of ENTV Channel 4
  3 October 2012, by siawi3

  Here is a statement from 6 prominent women’s organisations , regarding the progress of an important sexual harassment case taking place in Algeria.

• Africa: Draft resolution on female genital cutting sent to United Nations
  25 October 2012, by siawi3

  African member states of the United Nations have submitted a draft resolution on ending female genital mutilation (FGM) to the U.N. General Assembly, in what campaigners have hailed as a landmark step to end a practice that has been inflicted on up to 140 million women and girls.

• Algeria: Abu Nawas and LGBT Organization
  9 October 2012, by siawi3

  On Ocotber 10, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer community will light up its sixth candle to celebrate our national day. We would ask you to celebrate this day as every year by lighting a candle on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 8PM.

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