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Malaysian-Indians becoming victims of slavery
KUALA LUMPUR: Many illiterate ethnic Indians in Malaysia are falling prey to scams by organized syndicates who lure them with well-paying jobs and later treat them like slaves, a leading daily here reported on
Read More »Amnesty requests UN to release Sri Lankan civilian death toll
A leading human rights group has asked the United Nations to publicize its estimate of civilian deaths in the final weeks of Sri Lanka’s civil war. Amnesty International said in a statement late Friday
Read More »US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats
By Tom Eley | President Barack Obama announced on Friday the creation of a new “cyber czar” position. The Cybersecurity Coordinator, who is yet to be named, would oversee billions of dollars in funding
Read More »SEO Training Course Reveals New Secrets
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Read More »Israel Won’t Work With UN Gaza ‘War Crimes’ Probe
Israel said Friday that it will not cooperate with a United Nations team appointed to investigate alleged war crimes committed during its 22-day offensive in Gaza. The UN announced from Geneva Friday that the
Read More »The anti-cluster bomb campaign
Geneva – Human rights groups launched Friday a “week of action” to try to convince governments to sign and ratify the international treaty which bans the use, production and stockpiling of cluster munitions. The
Read More »Council Rejects ID Card Scheme
COUNCIL leaders in Sheffield said they will not allow the city to take part in trials of the Government’s identity card system after Manchester signed up for a pilot project. Sheffield Council leaders will
Read More »Amnesty Responds to CIA’s Denial of Former Vice President Cheney’s Request for Documents’ Release
In response to today’s news from the Central Intelligence Agency that it was denying former Vice President Cheney’s request for the public release of two memos–on the basis that the documents are currently the
Read More »Watchdog wants police to limit CCTV demand on pubs
Tough new government guidelines are to be demanded to stop police making unfair requests to pubs and clubs around the use of CCTV. Privacy watchdog The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is to make the
Read More »Google Street View causes another stir
The roving eye of Google’s Street View camera has been out and about in Cheltenham, UK. Residents spotted the van in the area this week, capturing images for the website’s extensive mapping programme. The
Read More »Who’s Watching You?
By Anthony Hildebrand | A new BBC series looks at surveillance in the UK. It’s something the industry could learn from, says I4S editor Anthony Hildebrand. Last Monday the BBC broadcast the first in
Read More »Lost Military Disks Had Personal Information
LONDON – AN INTERNAL military memo published on Monday confirmed that computer disks lost at a British Royal Air Force base contained sensitive files on the private lives of senior officers, including answers to
Read More »Court orders activist released
INDIA’S Supreme Court Monday ordered the release of a leading human rights activist held on charges of colluding with outlawed Maoist insurgents. Judges said Binayak Sen must be released on bail from the jail
Read More »Victims Families: 7/7 investigation a “whitewash”
Families of victims of the July 7, 2005 bombings in London have denounced a parliamentary investigation into the events as a “whitewash”. They accuse Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which issued a report
Read More »How To Protect Your Privacy In IE8
There will always be times when you don’t want other people to know which sites you’ve been visiting, whatever you use the Internet for. The problem is that we all leave a trail of
Read More »10 Things You Might Not Know About ID Cards
The government issued a little-reported document this month on ID cards. It was quietly published when the home secretary Jacqui Smith announced that some volunteer members of the public in Greater Manchester would
Read More »Court limits police surveillance powers
By Dominic Casciani | The Court of Appeal has limited police powers to keep pictures of protesters in case they go on to break the law. Judges said police had been wrong to retain
Read More »Privacy: British Government Refuses To Investigate Phorm
By Tom Espiner | The Prime Minister’s Office has rebuffed a public call for a government investigation into Phorm, saying that the independent Information Commissioner’s Office is responsible for ensuring that the behavioural ad-serving
Read More »Pointless ID Card project has no flicking point
By John Oates | The Home Office has confirmed there is still no timetable for the rollout of ID card readers, without which carrying out effective ID checks is impossible. So even though the government
Read More »Obama Nominates Polluter Lawyer To Run Environment Division
President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. On Tuesday, Obama “announced his intent to nominate” Ignacia S. Moreno to
Read More »High court rejects claims against Ashcroft
By Joan Biskupic | WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Pakistani man’s civil rights claim against former attorney general John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for abusive
Read More »On British “success” in Iraq
By David Morrison | “Tony Blair, I’m afraid, would never accept that our foreign policy actually had any impact on radicalization. …That’s clearly rubbish.” (Lord West) Lieutenant-General John Cooper used to occupy a small
Read More »KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of ‘Reign of Terror’
By Cary O’Reilly | KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors to the U.S. military, were accused by a pension-fund shareholder of paying bribes, making false claims and operating as criminal
Read More »BNP councillor ‘made up murders’
A senior BNP member on the Greater London Assembly faces possible suspension after he admitted fabricating murders in a London borough amid a media frenzy over knife crime in the capital. Richard Barnbrook, GLA
Read More »Human Rights Watch accuses DRC troops of war crimes
By Frank Nyakairu | NAIROBI (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Democratic Republic of Congo’s army on Tuesday of widespread abuses against civilians that it said amounted to war crimes. Congolese soldiers and
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