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Human Rights Digest

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News, Articles and Comment on Human Rights Issues

• Added on: May 15th, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Jim
• Listed in: International Affairs Law & Legal
• Tags: human rights universal declaration of human rights udhr human rights digest human rights issues human rights video

Recent Posts

• Somalia: Woman Stoned to Death for Adultery

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 16:45 in human rights, Somalia

  A 29 year old woman was stoned to death on the 17th November after being convicted of adultery by an Islamic court in the Al-Shabab controlled village of El-Bon 45km west of Wajid district in Bakool region. The village judge Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abd...

• Morocco/Western Sahara: Human Rights Defender Expelled and Others Arrested.

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 11:33 in human rights, western sahara, morocco

  Last week Aminatou Haidar, the 42-year old Sahrawi human rights campaigner, was arrested and expelled by Morocco. She visited the US last month to receive the Civil Courage Award from the Train Foundation and was also awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Hu...

• UK: Call for public inquiry into allegations of abuse by UK Military in Iraq

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 10:08 in UK, human rights, iraq, torture

  Claims that British military personnel committed sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi civilians are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence. Lawyers acting for former Iraqi detainees are calling for a full public inquiry into 33 abuse claims made...

• Global: International Tolerance Day

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 09:04 in human rights

  A report published today on International Tolerance Day by OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) concludes that hate crimes continue to be a serious problem in many OSCE participating States. The report finds there were num...

• US: Call to Reform Detention Policy in Afghanistan

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 08:59 in human rights, usa, afghanistan

  Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch have called on the US to end arbitrary detention in Afghanistan and to fully align US detention practices with international law. The organizations noted that the US has made some rece...

• Azerbaijan: bloggers jailing political

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 18:18 in human rights, azerbaijan, osce

  Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, described the sentencing on the 11th November 2009 of two Azerbaijani bloggers to prison terms on charges of alleged hooliganism and infliction of light bodily injuries as political. &...

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