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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Human Rights
The top United Nations official in Iraq today welcomed the country's establishment of an independent commission to promote and protect human rights in the troubled Middle East country....
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Nov 17, 2008
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Keya Acharya , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
BANGKOK, Nov 17 (IPS) - On top of 60 years of military occupation, the Karen people of Burma are now facing severe impairment of their environmental and cultural foundations, say activists....
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Nov 17, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) • 1,170 items of ammunition weighing over 17 tons safely destroyed • The surplus naval stocks posed a high risk of explosion which could have killed or severely injured 3,500 people • Weapons ...
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Nov 17, 2008
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Joyce Mulama interviews MERYEM ASLAN, East and Horn of Africa programme director for UNIFEM , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
NAIROBI, Nov 17 (IPS) - With the world slightly past the halfway mark to the Millennium Development Goal deadline of 2015, pressure is mounting to promote gender equality. Goal Three is to promote gender equality and empower women -- but in fact, every goal relates directly to women's rights....
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Nov 17, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters By Ivana Sekularac BELGRADE, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The United Nations chief war crimes prosecutor began on Monday a two-day visit to Serbia, seen by Belgrade as a chance to show its determination to ...
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Nov 17, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Human Rights
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Switzerland for the start of a two-day visit that includes talks with the United Nations' top human rights officials and a meeting with his many envoys and representatives worldwide....
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Nov 17, 2008
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Wolfgang Kerler , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
NEW YORK, Nov 17 (IPS) - Shutting down the infamous detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is just one of a series of measures to reform U.S. counterterrorism practices being urged by the watchdog organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW)....
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Nov 17, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Sudan's military said on Sunday it had clashed with armed bandits in Darfur, but a senior official said the fighting did not amount to a breach of a ...
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Nov 16, 2008
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Lynette Lee Corporal , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
BANGKOK, Nov 16 (IPS) - In what looked like a blitzkrieg rally, about a dozen hand-held 'No Dams' signs appeared out of nowhere in the packed conference hall at a public forum here on the construction of dams in the Mekong region....
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Nov 16, 2008
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Marwaan Macan-Markar , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
JAKARTA, Nov 15 (IPS) - In a crowded neighbourhood in this sprawling city families sat glued to their television sets late into the night of Nov. 8 watching updates on the execution of three men convicted for the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali, killing 202 people....
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Nov 15, 2008
