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  • Afghan corruption cuts both ways 1 Dec 2009 13:33 GMT
    ... Hours after Mr. Karzai was declared the winner in ... who has been accused by various independent human rights organizations in the killings of thousands of ... to the insurgent leaders holding the nation hostage, that he is not acting on the pressure of foreigners to change but rather ...

  • The new relationship 1 Dec 2009 10:51 GMT
    ... Torn faith: an image of the Dalai Lama is ... officials. According to analysis included in a Human Rights Watch report released in July 2008 and ... relationship with Nepal could hardly be held hostage by lingering anxiety over the latter’s small resident community of Tibetans. Indeed, ...

  • TotalitaIRANism 1 Dec 2009 18:51 GMT
    ... | By Sarah Carlsruh | December 1, 2009 Iran has ... United Nations Committee approved a condemning Iran's human rights violations. Finally, threatening on a broader scale, ... of former . Iran has been "taken hostage by the Iranian revolution," said Coughlin. The Supreme Leader, an office ...

  • Canadian Somalia hostage freed when taxi lights flicked 27 Nov 2009 10:53 GMT
    ... Amanda Lindhout after the abduction (left) and before. Amanda ... But according to several government officials, the hostage taking was always about ransom. Somalia's government is battling a group with ... most dangerous locales for the media and human rights workers. She was kidnapped with Brennan and ...

  • Fear and loathing in Fiji 27 Nov 2009 13:34 GMT
    ... IN THE tatty streets of Suva there is a beguiling ... own representatives. "It's surreal,'' observes a prominent human rights activist. ''I live here and sometimes I ... been bloodless, but the menace of abuses, hostage-taking and violence in previous coups hung in the air as Bainimarama ...

  • Dmitry Medvedev's building project 26 Nov 2009 17:20 GMT
    ... The Russian president talks up modernisation, but to little ... Mr Medvedev is unlikely to stop the hostage-taking, corporate raids by state agencies, rent-seeking and ...

  • Russia: Dmitry Medvedev's building project 26 Nov 2009 18:12 GMT
    ... The Russian president talks up modernisation, but to little ... Mr Medvedev is unlikely to stop the hostage-taking, corporate raids by state agencies, rent-seeking and ...

  • SOS Ariana 28 Nov 2009 04:37 GMT
    ... The Ukrainians on board have been held hostage by pirates off the Somali coast since May 2. Conflicting reports surfaced as ... crew's home city of Odesa say the hostages are in poor health. However, Minas told ... Poroshenko, presidential candidate Tigipko and the nation’s human rights ombudsman, Nina Karpacheva, responded. “But none of ...

  • Cutting through the talk 26 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... a former political officer in the US Embassy-turned-hostage), as well as his recent intellectual output on Iran, focusing less on the ... 1979-1981 US hostage crisis, the 1980s Lebanon hostages - followed by the author's "fourteen steps ... the areas of terrorism, Middle East peace, human rights, and nuclear development" (pg 181). This leads ...

  • Taxi lights flicked, and Canadian journalist freed 27 Nov 2009 17:33 GMT
    ... Amanda Lindhout after the abduction (left) and before. Amanda ... But according to several government officials, the hostage taking was always about ransom. Somalia's government is battling a group with ... most dangerous locales for the media and human rights workers. She was kidnapped with Brennan and ...

  • And by what right has anyone the right to defend their rights if those rights intrude on my rights? 27 Nov 2009 05:35 GMT
    ... the relevant passages in the Charter of Human Rights. And then to return aboard their RN ... those of their Somali captors, remain helpless hostages. ...

  • Kevin Myers: And by what right has anyone the right to defend their rights if those rights intrude on my rights? 27 Nov 2009 09:38 GMT
    ... the relevant passages in the Charter of Human Rights. And then to return aboard their RN ... those of their Somali captors, remain helpless hostages. ...

  • Religious freedom survey, November 2009 27 Nov 2009 15:56 GMT
    ... By Otmar Oehring, Head of the Human Rights Office of Missio , and Güzide Ceyhan ... association spreading knowledge about Christianity, was taken hostage at knifepoint. The young man responsible claimed that "this missionary dog is ...

  • Eritrea: Alone against the world 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... Commenting on events at a Brussels conference for ... conference for the promotion of peace and human rights in Eritrea, Nikolaj Nielsen reports on a ... a regime that has held its population hostage for nearly two decades, to a regime that explicitly uses forced labour. ...

  • Swiss vote to ban minarets on mosques 30 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... the move in the government, churches and human rights organisations had argued a ban on minarets ... their staff. The two Swiss, regarded as hostages, were handed over to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli earlier this month but ...


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