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06 November 2008
The leaders of Zimbabwean activist movement, Women of Zimbabwe Arise, have been released on bail after three weeks in detention.
05 November 2008
Amnesty International is calling on US president elect Barack Obama to take concrete steps to demonstrate commitment to human rights.
05 November 2008
Secretary General Irene Khan talks to the people of the city of Temuco as part of a mission to assess the country's human rights situation.
05 November 2008
A spate of Israeli and Palestinian attacks and counter-attacks in the
past 24 hours could spell the end of the five-and-a-half-month truce.
04 November 2008
One hundred and forty-seven states voted overwhelmingly at the United
Nations on Friday to move forward with work on the main elements of an
Arms Trade Treaty.
04 November 2008
Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan is leading a
mission to Chile to assess the country’s human rights situation.
03 November 2008
Pakistan is still suffering from the abusive policies put in place one
year ago Monday, when General Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a
state of emergency.
03 November 2008
The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the Government of the Japan
to restore dignity to the survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery
system.
31 October 2008
Three men convicted of involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings,
which killed 202 people and injured a further 209, are to be executed
in early November.
31 October 2008
A Cairo Administrative Court has rescinded the government’s decision to dissolve the Association for Human rights and Legal Aid.
31 October 2008
The son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, could face between 20 years to life imprisonment for the crimes he
committed in Liberia, while serving as the hea
31 October 2008
Previously reported to be 23 years old, the girl had been accused of adultery in
breach of Islamic law.
30 October 2008
The humanitarian and human rights crisis in North Kivu province is worsening rapidly as rebel forces threaten to overwhelm government troops and the UN peacekeeping fo
30 October 2008
Twelve members of the opposition coalition the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change are convicted of "weakening national sentiment.
29 October 2008
Troy Davis was granted a provisional stay of execution on Friday, just three days before he was scheduled to be put to death.
29 October 2008
The executions of Michitoshi Kuma and Masahiro Takashio were the first approved by Minister of Justice Mori Eisuke since
he took office in September.
28 October 2008
The leaders of the activist organisation Women of Zimbabwe Arise
(WOZA), Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, were denied bail on
Monday following their arrest on
24 October 2008
The UN General Assembly is due to discuss taking a crucial step
to secure access to justice for everyone whose economic, social and
cultural rights are violated and
24 October 2008
Imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia has been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament.
22 October 2008
Multinational Syngenta has given its experimental farm in
Paraná state to the state government, ending a long standing violent
conflict over the site.
