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16 February 2009
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group are reported to be responsible for the killing of 27 Indigenous Awá People in the department o
13 February 2009
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has been urged to
broaden an investigation of attacks on UN installations in Gaza.
13 February 2009
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has been urged to
broaden an investigation of attacks on UN installations in Gaza.
12 February 2009
An estimated 1,200 have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as a result of fighting between Pakistani Taleban groups and the military.
11 February 2009
Philip Rizk was taking part in a march in Cairo, to express solidarity with civilians affected by the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
11 February 2009
Two journalists have been attacked, one fatally, in less than a week in Somalia.
11 February 2009
Over 50 people were killed after literal witch hunts in 2008. Further killings related to allegations of sorcery have happened already this year.
10 February 2009
As the fighting continues between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), civilians pay the price for both parties' disregard for internatio
09 February 2009
The report, submitted to the Human Rights Council, also fails to acknowledge that the Mexican government's policies are frequently not implemented or lack impact.
09 February 2009
Ayatollah Khomeini promised that all Iranians would be free. However,
the past 30 years have been characterised by persistent human rights
violations.
06 February 2009
Over 1,600 migrants currently held on the Italian island of Lampedusa
are at risk of being forcibly returned to their home countries.
06 February 2009
Amnesty International has said that the Chinese government’s report to
the UN Universal Periodic Review whitewashes serious human rights
abuses being committed
06 February 2009
Amnesty International has called for a temporary truce and for
the creation of humanitarian corridors to allow more than quarter of a million
trapped civilians to es
06 February 2009
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have set free a
second hostage in a week with the release of regional deputy
Sigifredo López.
05 February 2009
Those sentenced were accused of leading unrest against unemployment and high living
costs in the phosphate-rich Gafsa region of south-east Tunisia earlier
in 2008.
04 February 2009
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have released former
governor Alan Jara, who had been held hostage by the guerrilla group
since 2001.
03 February 2009
The human rights records of 16 countries are up for review at the
fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group in Geneva.
02 February 2009
Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya people are missing at sea and many more
are at risk of drowning after Thai authorities forcibly expelled large
groups of Rohingyas see
02 February 2009
Four Egyptian newspaper editors convicted of publishing offences under
a controversial press law have had their one-year prison sentences
overturned by a Cairo Appea
30 January 2009
A law to protect women in Mexico has had no impact in the two years
since its inception, leaving the safety of many Mexican women at risk.
