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| | Chile: Transition at the crossroads: human rights violations under Pinochet rule remain the crux - Amnesty International |
 | | Cases of human rights violations committed in the twelve years of the Pinochet government since 1978 are not covered by the 1978 Amnesty Law, and prosecutions in such cases have proceeded. | | | While progress in any cases of investigations of human rights violations is welcomed, it is a sad indictment of Chilean justice that cases with specific international implications have made more progress than the hundreds of other cases presented to the courts. | | | This report analyses the application of this law to hundreds of cases of grave human rights violations which occurred in the period of greatest repression, 1973-1978, and examines a number of key cases that have had repercussions in the courts and in Chilean society. |
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| | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKEY |
| | Intellectuals in the West have begun to debate whether this is a new genocide; the possibility of a human rights court for Turkey's politicians and of an economic boycott against the country are being discussed. | | | Human rights activists say that at least 150 prominent writers, politicians, academics, journalists and lawyers are in jail for speaking out on such issues as Turkey's Kurdish problems, state-sponsored torture and corruption. | | | The operation was launched by Ankara last weekend in violation of international laws and with no obvious reason for "hot persuit." PM Ciller's government failed to consult with Parliament on the issue, depending on authority granted to the administration during the Gulf War. |
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| | Human Rights Violations |
| | These include certain civil liberties and political rights, the most fundamental of which is the right to life and physical safety. | | | This means a re-establishment of the rule of law and a rebuilding of trust in public authorities. | | | It also explores international reporting procedures, the protecting of refugees, and the role of domestic courts in enforcing human rights law. |
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| | Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Americas: Cuba |
| | The government-controlled courts undermined the right to fair trial by restricting the right to a defense, and frequently failed to observe the few due process rights available to defendants under domestic law. | | | Cuba's restrictions on human rights were undergirded by the country's legal and institutional structure. | | | The rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, movement, and of the press were strictly limited under Cuban law. |
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| | Endless Brutality: Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Chechnya |
| | Commanders of local units should be instructed in the limitations that human rights and humanitarian law place on their conduct at checkpoints and on roads. | | | All arrests and detentions must follow procedures under law, and must include notice of charges, the right to speak to counsel, detention in an authorized facility, notification of families of the fact of arrest and detention, and allowance of visits by families. | | | Commanders should be instructed in the requirements of international human rights and humanitarian law. |
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| | Human rights violation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Human rights violation is a term used when a government violates national or international law related to the protection of human rights. | | | Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the use of the death penalty, however, in some democracies such as the United States, particularly when the penalty is used against those who were minors when they committed the crime in question. | | | Human rights violations and abuses most often thought of under the term human rights violations include those documented by organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange. |
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| | ei: Human Rights |
| | On 14 October 2005, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice, and the Attorney General (AG) demanding the cancellation of a bill which proposes new and harsher criminal procedure laws to be applied to individuals suspected of security offenses based solely on their nationality. | | | The bill, entitled the “Criminal Law Procedures Bill (Powers of Implementation — Special Directives for Investigating Security Violations Perpetrated by Non-Citizens),” was approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs on 9 October 2005. | | | Recommended by the General Security Services (GSS), the bill would create a two-track criminal procedure law governing investigation, interrogation and detention — one for Israelis and one for Palestinians. |
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| | Human Rights Violations in Drug Law Enforcement in Georgia |
| | HRW recommended that the means used to enforce drug laws which have led to a disparity in arrests, and particularly in life sentences, should be modified in light of the state's anti-drug objectives. | | | The International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), to which the United States is a signatory, does not impose the requirement of discriminatory intent. | | | As a result, the burden of proving intent has been a formidable barrier for discrimination victims seeking judicial relief. |
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| | Neve Gordon: Outsourcing Human Rights Violations |
| | In this case both political and civil rights, as well as economic and social rights, are violated. | | | From a legal perspective, employing subcontractors is an effective device since it obfuscates the connection between the perpetrator and the contravening act, making it extremely difficult to hold the violator legally accountable for the abuses it sanctions. | | | Outsourcing is, however, not merely employed as a strategy to help the perpetrator abdicate responsibility for the violations it authorizes. |
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| | Congressional Letters about Aceh |
| | The final verdict in Indonesia’s ad hoc court on East Timor is expected on July 1. | | | Under martial law they are not allowed legal representation for twenty days; this can be extended to fifty days. | | | We must not tolerate such blatant human rights violations. |
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| | CHECHNYA: Renewed Catastrophe (Focus on Human Rights Violations) |
| | Russian authorities are stepping up pressure to compel 77,000 displaced Chechens in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia to return to their war-torn homeland, which they fled three years ago as Russian troops arrived to crush a separatist insurgency. | | | -- The Russian government has once again refused to comply with the requirements of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which must firmly act to end the ongoing atrocities in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said today. | | | © Copyright 2004, Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA |
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| | Amnesty International - Colombia: Breaking down the wall of silence |
| | These include the weakening of the Ombudsman’s Office and local State human rights structures (Personerías), the limitation of writs of protection (tutelas), as well as the restriction of human rights which have been imposed within the framework of the state of internal commotion. | | | However, we are dismayed to see that many of the measures adopted to guarantee greater security are not aimed at illegal armed groups, but rather at the majority of Colombians, whose rights are restricted and whose security against abuses of power and arbitrary actions is undermined. | | | It is already clear that the measures included in President Uribe's "democratic security" doctrine threaten to weaken the rule of law and the human rights of all Colombians. |
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| | Colombia’s paramilitaries ‘recycled’ into conflict - The Wire - October 2005 - Amnesty International |
| | The demobilization process is to be regulated by the new Justice and Peace Law, introduced in July 2005, and by Decree 128, which grants de facto amnesties to members of illegal armed groups not under investigation for human rights abuses. | | | The Justice and Peace Law, which will benefit those demobilized paramilitaries who are under investigation for human rights violations, will do little to secure an end to the human rights crisis. | | | Most of the paramilitaries in Medellín, like those demobilizing in other parts of the country, include thousands of possible human rights abusers who are benefiting from de facto amnesties. |
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| | Human Rights in China |
| | Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that political dissident Xu Wanping, who has been in custody for half a year with no access to a lawyer, may soon go to trial on charges of subversion. | | | Xu Wanping, a key political activist based in Chongqing, was detained by Public Security Police who escorted him from his home on March 30 without producing a warrant or other legal documentation. | | | The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization, Human Rights in China (HRIC), denounce the decision of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), a process... |
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| | Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide |
| | To provide a measure of justice for thousands of victims of human rights violations, fair trials are essential | | | © Copyright 2004, Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA | | | Cuba routinely refuses to grant its citizens permission to leave their country and often denies those who have left without permission the right to return. |
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| | The Periscope |
| | One reason for the difficulty, says Rollins, is the E.U. policy of preferential avoidance of EU member countries regarding civil and human rights abuses. | | | As the European Union struggles to bring multicultural prosperity to the Balkan region of Europe, “the task is proving more elusive than ever,” says American legal rights lawyer, Michael Rollins. | | | All we need are ingenuity and the will to act. |
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| | Human Rights Violations: Children's Rights |
| | The Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF) | | | The State of the World's Children, 1996: Contents of Full Report (by UNICEF) | | | Human Rights Violations: Globetrotter Educational Module; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley |
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| | Amnesty International - Working To Protect Human Rights Worldwide |
| | Amnesty International and 13 other organizations are seeking a ruling from the UK’s highest court that would render torture “evidence” inadmissible. | | | UK: Briefing on the draft Terrorism Bill 2005 (PDF) | | | Bulgaria and Rumania: EU must address outstanding human rights concerns |
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| | Amnesty International Report 2000 |
| | The absence of an entry on a particular country or territory does not imply that no human rights abuses of concern to AI took place there during the year. | | | This report documents human rights issues of concern to AI worldwide during 1999. | | | It also reflects the activities AI has undertaken during the year to promote human rights and to campaign against specific human rights abuses. |
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| | USIS -- Issues of Democracy -- May 1996 |
| | Our intention is to provide a variety of views and perspectives, not all of which necessarily represent official U.S. government policy. | | | Until recently, however, no persons accused of war crimes and human rights violations had been prosecuted under international law since the war crimes trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo. | | | Accountability for war crimes and human rights violations is the central topic for this edition. |
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| | CYPRUS PROBLEM: Turkey's Violations of Human Rights in Cyprus |
| | Turkish Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights | | | Continuing Violations of Human Rights in Cyprus (11 February 1983 to Date) - The Period Covered by the Fourth Application to the European Commission of Human Rights | | | ANNEX I:Conclusions of the European Commission of Human Rights in the First two Applications Included in the Report on 10 July 1976. |
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| | Such information is essential in addressing five priority areas of the United Nations human rights programme: | | | Implementation efforts, including the work of treaty-based bodies and the provision of advisory services and technical assistance to United Nations Member States. | | | Ayala Lasso, who was appointed as the first United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 14 February 1994, said the Vienna Conference was a watershed, marking the realization of an "era of implementation" of human rights standards and mechanisms that have been developed over the past years. |
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| | East Timor - Arrests and Torture |
| | Go to main human rights and justice page | | | ETHRC UA 4-99 Violations in Suai, Bobonaro and Ermera | | | Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission - Summary of rights violations in East Timor |
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| | Human Rights, Human Rights violations, Human Rights Organization, Turkish, Genocide, Massacre 20th Century Genocides, ... |
| | © 2001-2004, United Human Rights Council, All rights reserved. | | | The United Human Rights Council (UHRC), by means of action on a grassroots level, works toward correcting the human rights violations of those governments who distort, deny, and delude their own history to disguise past and present genocides, massacres, and human rights violations. | | | Human Rights, Human Rights violations, Human Rights Organization, Turkish, Genocide, Massacre 20th Century Genocides, Victims of Turkey, Holocaust |
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| | Chechnya - Human Rights Violations - News and updates |
| | Press releases and updates on the humanitarian situation in the Chechen Republic | | | The website provides information, news and updates on the human rights violations in Chechnya. | | | Chechnya - Human Rights Violations - News and updates |
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| | Argentina - Human Rights |
| | Write letters to help end or avoid a human rights violation. | | | The fate of 30'000 "disappeared" during the dirty war is still unknown and the Government, shielding itself behind two laws that pardoned all those responsible for the tortures and killings, has no plans to investigate what their fate was. | | | Still, human rights violations are still a real problem in this country. |
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| | WITNESS :: See it. Film it. Change it. |
| | Read Case Studies about WITNESS partner videos which have made a difference | | | Watch more videos on human rights issues around the world | | | Take a stand against vigilante groups such as the Minuteman Project, making clear that their activities are not welcome in any community. |
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| | Human Rights Violations |
| | The situations evolving political prisoners violate an abundant number of granted human rights, granted by the UDHR. | | | For example, The Cuban Professional Independent Journalist and Writers, who are subjected to the punishment, jail terms and arrest of the controlling government. | | | These human rights violations are violations according to the comparison to the UDHR (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights). |
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| | Human Rights Violations in Iran |
| | Moreover, Iran is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which it ratified in 1975. | | | The UN Refugee Convention and Protocol and universal civil rights norms and standards require that those who are fleeing the Islamic Republic of Iran for reasons of race, religion, political opinion, membership in a particular social group, and rights violations and discrimination be granted protection and asylum. | | | The systemic and state sponsored nature of many of these abuses has generated the flight of thousands of Iranians who have been forced to leave their homes to seek refuge in a safer country, one in which they are not subject to persecution or the threat thereof. |
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| | News |
| | Human rights abuses by the state are practiced daily in Iraq, against all sectors of the population indiscriminately. | | | Iraq has been a police state in the Stalinist model since July 1968, when Saddam Hussein and his collaborators seized power in the name of the Ba'th Party. | | | Its human resources were diverted to the war, while other Arabs and foreign nationals had to be imported to carry on the country's business. |
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| | Human Rights Violations |
| | He said he knows of no other Canadian case in which discrimination against men has been recognized by a human rights commission or court. | | | OTTAWA - Canada's human rights watchdog is on the brink of a crisis in the face of an unprecedented exodus of workers who complain that a controlling, disinterested and even abusive senior management is breaching the rights of its own staff. | | | "The commission is not only not using its power to protect human rights in Canada, but it's breaching the rights and its obligations to its own employees through neglect," said one long-time employee. |
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| | ColorQ Human Rights Corner |
| | It is also not the purpose of Human Rights Corner to single out specific nations or governments for criticism. | | | Human rights activists and anti-slavery supporters under attack by government | | | The stories here do not imply that any specific country or government is more prone to abuse than others. |
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| | Tunis denies human rights violations |
| | The UN committee had expressed "concern over the gap between the law and the practice concerning human rights" and over police conduct of "torturing and humiliating acts which in several times resulted in death cases in prison." | | | Tunisia becomes member of United Nations committee for human rights | | | The Tunisian representative asserted that the report does not "in its content nor spirit express the real situation of human rights in Tunisia and the continued efforts exerted by the state's authorities to encourage respect for human rights, basic rights and protect them." |
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| | TIME.com: Inside the Battle of Jenin |
| | Israeli army sources confirmed to Time that they used this practice, which Human Rights Watch condemned in its report as a violation of international humanitarian law. | | | Copyright © 2002 Time Inc. All rights reserved. | | | Human Rights Watch, which in a published report last week also concluded that no massacre took place, nonetheless documented 22 civilian deaths and said the Israelis used excessive and indiscriminate force during the operation. |
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| | Amnesty International 1999 Annual Report on Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of) |
| | The human rights situation could not be adequately monitored by the international community because of government restrictions on access to the country, giving rise to concern that serious human rights violations remained hidden. | | | Government restrictions on access and information hampered the collection of independent and impartial information about the human rights situation. | | | The government submitted its initial report to the un Committee on the Rights of the Child and attended the examination of this report in May, reversing its 1997 decision to suspend reporting on its implementation of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child (see Amnesty International Report 1998). |
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| | Human Rights Violations Inside Of Cuba |
| | U.S., rights groups assail `scandalous' new Cuban law | | | Human Rights Actions Network:Concern over the health of political prisoner | | | The Case of Alejandre, Costa, de la Peña and Morales in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS / Diario Las Américas |
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| | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DOCUMENTED |
| | Living in these grim circumstances, patients are deprived of even their most basic human rights under international law." | | | A report recently released in Mexico City by Mental Disability Rights International documents the appalling conditions in Mexicoís mental health system and makes recommendations for bringing the system into conformity with international human rights conventions. | | | "In addition to the way in which these conditions violate patients' human rights, the most tragic part of this entire situation is that it doesn't have to be this way," said Okin. |
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| | Human rights in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | The human rights situation in Iraq is the subject of three separate articles: |
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| | U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea |
| | Addresses and other information for your Members of Congress can be found at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov. | | | The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) is a bi-partisan, not-for-profit human rights organization that has obtained 501(c)3 nonprofit status. | | | Not on the agenda, but which the Committee thinks should be, is human rights, including the right to food. |
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| | Church of Scientology International Protecting Human Right and Individual Freedoms: Freedom Magazine |
| | This is compounded by the fact that in recent weeks, France appears to be heading on a self-destructive course in violation of its international human rights commitments, despite criticisms from the Council of Europe, the Catholic and Protestant churches, the international human rights community and the U.S. State Department. | | | * Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 9 and Article 14. | | | While preliminary investigations indicate that a small minority of extremist individuals acting in collaboration with vested interest groups are engineering the French government’s attack upon religion, their motives, real agenda and connections are not yet fully known. |
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| | Overview on human rights violations in Chechnya |
| | Russia has prevented internationally authorized human rights investigators and monitors from entering Chechnya. | | | The Russian Federation's permanent human rights violations in Chechnya is not only brutalizing the Chechen population but also Russia's own society, leading it towards an authoritarian and xenophobic involution. | | | Everything confirms that the grave breaches of humanitarian laws in Chechnya are not an accident or a consequence of Russian's inability to control its own forces, but appear to be the basic psychological strategy by which the Russian authorities hope to submit the Chechen resistance. |
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| | Present Situation in Tibet |
| | Tibetan issue at the 56th UN Commission on Human Rights | | | Ngawang Choephel - Musician in Tibet sentenced to 18-year prison term as "spy" | | | Human Rights Update - Vol: II Number 5 - 15 March 1997 |
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| | Human Rights and Violations |
| | ">Committee for Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities of the Parliament of Georgia | | | Konstantin Kokoev, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Ethnical Minorities. | | | Zurab Vanishvili , the Expert of the Committee for Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities of the Parliament of Georgia |
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| | Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations Handbook |
| | It is particularly relevant to human rights field workers and non-governmental organisations, but could be used by doctors, lawyers, or any other professionals or individuals who might receive such information. | | | How to document and respond to potential violations of the right to life within the international system for the protection of human rights | | | The Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations Handbook is a reference guide for anyone who wishes to know how to take action in response to allegations of suspicious deaths. |
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| | TamilCanadian - Human Rights Violations Against Tamils in Sri Lanka |
| | In order to maintain their oppressive rule over the Tamil people the Sinhala occupation army has committed, and continue to commit, horrendous human rights violations in the form of murder/extra-judicial killings/disappearances/ rape /torture etc with impunity. | | | To mark the Black July 83 - 15th Anniversary Remembrance Week we have endeavored to document all such gross human rights violations during the past two decades for the benefit of posterity. | | | Human Rights Violations Against Tamils in Sri Lanka |
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| | Derechos: Human Rights in India |
| | Abuse of Human Rights of Sikhs in India | | | Derechos does not necessarily endorse any of the views expressed in any of the pages to which we link. | | | North American Conference in Peace and Human Rights in India and Pakistan |
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| | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS |
| | China Signs Human Rights Treaty but Implementation is Key 10/98 | | | China Silences UN Human Rights Body on Tibet Issue | | | On voting against China in next week's human rights meeting 98 - Jonathan Power |
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| | Physicians for Human Rights |
| | International Human Rights Groups Examine Seriously Ill Libyan Political Prisoner and Call for His Immediate Release | | | Guidelines for Health Professionals to Protect Patients from Rights Violations | | | Medical Group Says Forced Feeding of Gitmo Detainees Violates International Medical Codes of Ethics |
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