Human Rights & Minorities

Rights Group Says Sudan Evidence Obliges U.S.

Human Rights First urges the Obama Administration to take immediate and firm action in response to a new investigative report issued by experts monitoring the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan. The report, released late...

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France asks Sri Lanka to end emergency laws (AFP)

AFP/File – Sri Lankan refugees displaced during the final stages of the fighting, prepare to climb aboard state-buses, … COLOMBO (AFP) – A top French envoy on Saturday asked Sri Lanka to end its state of emergency and probe war...

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Concerns over whether vital clues were missed at the Cleveland 'House of Horrors'

Residents living near rapist and suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell fear a catalogue of errors meant vital clues were missed by police and the authorities. Police in Cleveland have been attacked by locals for failing to...

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Measuring Democracy - The ICFTU’s Reports on Violations of Union Rights - Artur Victoria Studies

and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak level associations. Association maintains close links with different UN bodies and has consultative status in some of...

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Woman sues church, Candy Kitchen to put in ramp

A Hampstead woman who uses a wheelchair is suing an owner of Frederick's Candy Kitchen in federal court for discriminating against her by not allowing her full entrance into the store, she claims in the lawsuit

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Man Axed for Telling Woman Gay Marriage Is Wrong

Saturday, November 07, 2009 By Joshua Rhett Miller Peter Vidala, 24, says he was unjustly fired after telling another employee he thought her impending marriage to another woman was wrong. A manager at a Massachusetts retail...

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Measuring Democracy - Human Rights Watch’s - Artur Victoria Studies

indicators. But, like the AI, it provides the number of data about different cases of violations, the categories of violations, their magnitude and frequency. The sample that they have is much smaller then the AI sample. 66...

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Free Love

free-love tradition is an offshoot of anarchism, and reflects a civil libertarian philosophy that seeks freedom from state regulation and church interference in personal relationships. According to this concept, the free unions...

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Arab American Media Fears Worsening Public Opinion After Ft. Hood

New America Media, News Feature, compiled by Suzanne Manneh, Posted: Nov 07, 2009 Editor’s Note: Arab American media say they do not fear a backlash after the Fort Hood shootings, but they fear public opinion of Arab Americans...

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US Congress Withholds Military Aid to the Philippines Due to Human Rights Abuses

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 1:49 PM EST [Manila, Philippines] The United States Congress has withheld the US$2-million military aid to the Philippines in 2010 due to human rights concerns. The US House of...

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