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- UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report 1 Dec 2009 07:25 GMT
... UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report The United Nations ... resources. Diplomats at the UN headquarters in New York reportedly tried to delay the release of ... at least 270 civilians in one area—mostly women, children and the elderly—who were decapitated, chopped ...
- Women still a target for brutality 25 Nov 2009 21:27 GMT
... / November 25. 2009 7:57PM GMT Bahraini female officers take part in yesterday's graduation ceremony ... the extent of discrimination and violence against women in Bahrain were offered yesterday as the ... optimism was not shared by the Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS), which released its annual report ...
- UN Calls for Intensified Efforts to Curb Violence Against Women 26 Nov 2009 15:16 GMT
... tackle the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. "In every country, women and ... violence, sex trafficking, so-called 'honour' crimes or female genital mutilation," said Ban. It is crucial ... let us reaffirm our commitment to women's human rights and let us do all it takes ...
- Zimbabwe women, receiving rights award, speak out 24 Nov 2009 01:07 GMT
... President Barack Obama praised representatives of a women's organization whose members have been beaten by ... on them the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. "They have been gassed, abducted, threatened ... maid walking home in Montgomery, the young woman marching silently in the streets of Tehran, the ...
- UN Chief Kicks off Network of Men to Address Violence against Women 24 Nov 2009 21:31 GMT
... Up to 70 percent of women will experience physical or sexual violence by ... the world. "Just as women's rights are human rights - women's issues are people's issues," Ban ... intersection of violence against women and HIV/AIDS, female genital mutilation and trafficking. Other speakers that ...
- A woman among warlords Pt.2 22 Nov 2009 06:57 GMT
... politician who has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." As an elected member of the ... more disaster, more bloody, especially for the women, if these two terrorists also come in ... must join their hands with us, especially human rights organizations. Moral support, and also financial support, ...
- Do Not Sit Back, Unite to Change Practices, Attitudes, Secretary-General Urges as He Launches Network of Men Leaders to End Violence against Women 25 Nov 2009 13:52 GMT
... of Men Leaders to End Violence against Women, in New York today, 24 November: Today we mark the ... After all, just as women's rights are human rights -- women's issues are people's issues. That ...
- Poor Women from Northeast Brazil Learn Joy of Meeting and Helping Each Other 25 Nov 2009 12:36 GMT
... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who arrives... Ahmadinejad, respect the human rights and don't come back here again, read ... a decade ago when I moved to New York, I had a very small collection of ... president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva... Brazilian women stay slim, while men are getting fatter and ...
- MPs told of gang rapes at mine 24 Nov 2009 09:59 GMT
... group of five or more, find a woman while they are patrolling on or near mine ... raping her. "In a number of cases, women reported to me being forced to chew ... continued. A lawyer at the centre for human rights at New York University School of Law, ...
- World AIDS Day: Punitive Laws Threaten HIV Progress 25 Nov 2009 19:50 GMT
... part of comprehensive prevention strategies. But if human rights abuses are unaddressed and punitive laws target ... Human Rights director at Human Rights Watch (New York) - HIV prevention efforts - and the ... birth but allows for the prosecution of women whose infants acquire HIV from breast milk. "HIV ...
- CQ Transcript: Sens. Alexander, Bond, Specter and Stabnenow on 'Fox News Sunday' 22 Nov 2009 19:53 GMT
... they said you shouldn’t have mammograms for women under 50. Now, I know and have ... in, though, only to say, as a woman... WALLACE: I’ve got to bring in -- ... insisted that they’re going to meet with human rights people, or they say, “Look, if you’re ...
- The Goldstone Report and the debate in Israel 1 Dec 2009 15:11 GMT
... 1,400 Palestinians, about a third of them women and children, only thirteen Israelis died in ... political movement as a "serious violation of human rights." Here is an excerpt taken from the ... films; radical Rabbi Michael Lerner invited a woman who justifies suicide bombings to address his synagogue ...
- First Rights: Who needs trials? Kill terror suspects! 23 Nov 2009 20:21 GMT
... interactive session with students in Pakistan, a female medical student praised Hillary Clinton for inspiring women; but then the same admirer asked the ... course, classified state secrets. But another Pakistan woman flatly told Clinton that these drone devastations ...
- Dispatches from IWW Delegation to Palestine 24 Nov 2009 01:22 GMT
... any signs of protest, the harassment of women, and the denial of Palestinian authority. This ... members of the DWRC's legal aid and human rights' center. This NGO is committed to educating ... benefit and salary disparities between male and female workers, the publishing of statistics regarding workers' ...
- "Dissidents make noise -- oops, news " 25 Nov 2009 08:53 GMT
... year, Saudi religious police arrested an American woman “for sitting with a male colleague at ... response to Saudi (our ally) mistreatment of women, the U.S. government “strongly deplores the assault” ... dissident now in second place among the female “Disidencia,” told the Miami Herald her diabetes ...
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