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  • Walkom: Only the losers need to fear war-crime laws 21 Nov 2009 10:37 GMT
    ... In a 2004 photo, Canadian troops round up detainees, who were then turned over to Kabul city police. The Canadian government is under ... write into Canadian law the United Nations Convention Against Torture. That convention specifically forbids any signatory from ...

  • How US harbors war criminals of its own 19 Nov 2009 00:18 GMT
    ... Someone, somewhere, has to say it and thus confirm what the Pentagon always feared would happen if an international war crimes court ... who put their signatures to the UN Convention Against Torture and thus laid the legal basis for ...

  • Govt ensuring death penalty gone forever 19 Nov 2009 02:11 GMT
    ... The federal government wants to ensure the death penalty can't be brought back anywhere in Australia. Attorney-General Robert McClelland told parliament ... fulfil more clearly Australia's obligations under the Convention Against Torture," he said. It would not affect state ...

  • Humanitarian disaster threatens Sri Lankan asylum seekers 19 Nov 2009 03:31 GMT
    ... Humanitarian disaster threatens Sri Lankan asylum seekers Thursday, November 19, 2009 09:20 WIB | Features | | Viewed 186 ... Considering that Indonesia had already ratified the convention against torture of 1965 through Law No 5/1998 while ...

  • 50 years of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 19 Nov 2009 12:58 GMT
    ... SOMETIMES IN moments of solitude, I can’t help but ponder deep down and often found asking myself the inevitable question. Are we, ... Civil and Political Rights (the ICCPR), the Convention Against Torture, the UN Code of Conduct for Law ...

  • Brussels, 18 November 2009 Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on executions by stoning in Somalia 19 Nov 2009 15:13 GMT
    ... Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on executions by stoning in Somalia The European Union condemns the recent ... and Political Rights, as well as the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, ...

  • Causes of Falluja's birth defects 17 Nov 2009 00:33 GMT
    ... You are to be congratulated for bringing to public notice the possible causes of birth defects and cancers among infants in Falluja ( ... the United Nations, the Genocide convention, the convention against torture, the four Geneva conventions of 1949, the ...

  • Czech president signs Lisbon Treaty/ResultofEU dirty deal regarding human rights 17 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... Czech president signs Lisbon Treaty/ResultofEU dirty deal regarding human rights With the EU guarantee to the Czech president, that ... SAFEGUARD AGAINST TORTURE Â [11] INTERNATIONAL LAW Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment ...

  • Initiative picks up momentum with new rights reforms 16 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... The government plans to establish a human rights institution and a commission on combating discrimination and strengthen legal measures to combat ... to the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture. Despite signing the optional protocol, opened for ...

  • Escudero hails signing of anti-torture law 14 Nov 2009 15:55 GMT
    ... MANILA, Philippines—Over a thousand unresolved human rights cases may now be resolved following President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s signing of the Anti-torture ... was a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment ...


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