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Russia signs Georgia ceasefire deal
guardian.co.uk | The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has signed a ceasefire pact to end hostilities in Georgia. The deal calls for Russian troops to pull back from Georgia but also grants them limited patrols
Read More »Channel 4 journalist grills Olympics organisers over human rights
guardian.co.uk | Channel 4 News correspondent Alex Thomson used a press conference in Beijing today to repeatedly challenge Olympics organisers over China’s record on human rights. Thomson asked a representative of the International Olympics Committee
Read More »India to examine protest deaths
By Ram Dutt Tripathi | The government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has ordered an inquiry into the deaths of four farmers during clashes with the police on Wednesday. The clashes –
Read More »Rwanda: Obscuring the Truth About the Genocide
By Barrie Collins - Spiked | Last week, the Rwandan government published the findings of its commission of inquiry into the role France played in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. It found French diplomats, military
Read More »BP shuts down Georgia pipelines
Energy giant BP says it has shut two of three pipelines that run through Georgia as a precautionary measure. A spokeswoman for the firm said the oil and gas pipelines, which run from the
Read More »South Africa Hearing Claims Elite Unit Controlled by CIA, MI5
iol | British intelligence organisation MI5 and the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are the masters of South Africa’s elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, a public hearing into their dissolution heard in
Read More »Indian police shoot dead Kashmir demonstrators
By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi | The violence followed a simmering row over the transfer of land to a Hindu organisation in the country’s sole Muslim-majority province. Police and military personnel enforced a
Read More »More than 115,000 detainees released under pardon law
Voices of Iraq | The number of detainees released under the general amnesty law, launched by the government in February, reached 115615, the official spokesman for the Higher Judicial Council said on Monday. “A
Read More »Report: US using ‘money as a weapon’ in Iraq
US program has spent $2.8 billion using ‘money as a weapon’ in Iraq AP A U.S. Army program in which soldiers pay cash to Iraqis to help with expenses, large and small, has spent
Read More »‘No to Olympics without human rights’
A protester tried to set himself alight outside the Chinese embassy in Ankara on Friday as Chinese Muslims denounced human rights violations in China ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games. About 300 people,
Read More »White House press corps plane detained in China
BEIJING – A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The
Read More »Pakistani president to be impeached
guardian.co.uk | Pakistan’s fragile coalition government today announced plans to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, throwing the country into new political turmoil. Musharraf was today plotting his response with advisers and finally cancelled an on-off trip
Read More »Boycott these companies – they support human rights violations
foobar | Here is the link to the sponsors for this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing. As I wrote before, if freedom and human rights mean anything to us, we owe it ourselves and to
Read More »Bush scolds China over human rights… then flies in for Games
Just hours before flying to Beijing for the Olympics on Thursday, US president George Bush used some of his bluntest language yet in publicly pressing China to improve its human rights record. In a
Read More »US, UK activists protest under Olympic spotlight
BEIJING (AP) – Activists from the U.S. and U.K. unfurled pro-Tibet banners and spoke out against China’s rights record in Tiananmen Square on Wednesday in the first attempts by foreigners in the Chinese capital
Read More »South Korea arrests 167 after anti-Bush protests
SEOUL — South Korean police used water cannon and arrested 167 people to break up protests in the evening and overnight against the visit of US President George W. Bush, officers said Wednesday. A
Read More »Union slams EPA chief for ignoring staff on global warming
By Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson stunned his staff last month when he publicly opposed their proposals for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, four union officials representing EPA
Read More »South Korea Says U.S. Killed Hundreds of Civilians
“When the napalm hit our village, many people were still sleeping in their homes,” said Lee Beom-ki, 76. “Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats. We were trying to show the
Read More »The Politics of Rice
Inside USA travels to Haiti to look at how the stories of politics, rice, and the United States are deeply interwoven. Twenty years ago, Haiti produced enough rice to feed its population. Importing rice
Read More »Inspector questions Blackwater contracts
By Joseph Neff | A high-stakes dispute that flared Monday between Blackwater and the federal government boils down to a definition: Are the hundreds of Blackwater guards protecting diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan employees
Read More »Afghan air war grows in intensity
By David Wood | WASHINGTON – Daily airstrikes by U.S. and allied fighter-bombers in Afghanistan have almost doubled since last summer, according to U.S. Air Force data, a trend that reflects increased insurgent attacks
Read More »Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western | The British sociologist T.H. Marshall described citizenship as the “basic human equality associated with full membership in a community.” By this measure, thirty years of prison growth concentrated among the poorest in
Read More »Rights Groups: Peacekeepers Not Doing Enough for Darfur Civilians
By Tendai Maphosa | A report by a group of African human rights agencies says the joint African Union – United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region is not providing sufficient protection to
Read More »Lawyer asks Taoiseach for information on CIA flights
THE LAWYER representing a British resident detained in Guantánamo Bay has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen seeking information on CIA flights involved in his client’s “extraordinary rendition” which landed in Shannon in 2002 and
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