SRI LANKA: Right to Travel Under Threat from New Laws
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By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Oct 9 (IPS) – New laws dealing with foreign employment agents and migrant workers, Sri Lanka’s biggest foreign revenue earner, have stirred up a hornet’s nest and concerns over a fundamental issue – the freedom to travel.
"The fundamental freedom to travel [...]
Q&A: Indigenous Rights Appeals Increasingly Reach Inter-American System
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Daniela Estrada interviews VÍCTOR ABRAMOVICH, Vice President of IACHR
SANTIAGO, Oct 8 (IPS) – Standards relating to indigenous peoples’ rights, laid down by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, are increasingly being incorporated into the laws of countries in the region, according to Víctor [...]
PAKISTAN: Local Residents Tacitly Approve of Swat Killings
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Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 1 (IPS) – Widespread reports of extrajudicial killings of suspected Taliban by the military do not seem to have raised alarm bells among a people that have been deeply traumatized by the militant group’s atrocities.
A number of residents of the [...]
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Uganda Women Seek Gender Recovery Plan
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By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA, Sep 26 (IPS) – After two decades of war during which thousands of children were used as child soldiers and many women raped, northern Uganda’s recovery plan is to be spent on building roads rather than helping the country’s most vulnerable.
Civil [...]
MALAYSIA: Gov’t Urged to Stem the Tide of Child Trafficking
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By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27 (IPS) – "My family was starving. . . . I was sold to people who brought me here to work and feed my family back home," said Ah Mun, a victim of child trafficking.
The 13-year-old girl from Kachin [...]
IRAN: Allegations of Rape in Detention Centres
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Analysis by Sara Farhang
TEHRAN, Aug 14 (IPS) – At continued public protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar Wednesday, demonstrators are expressing their discontent with the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the rifts among the ruling elites of the Islamic government widen.
The latest disputes are focused [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Govt Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
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By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – The U.S. government continues to withhold even the most basic information about prisoners in the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a New York-based legal rights organisation.
An April 2009 ACLU [...]
MOROCCO: The Berber Dance Is Over
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By Daan Bauwens
RABAT, Aug 13 (IPS) – The satellite receiver has speeded up the process of wiping out the cultural heritage of Morocco’s Berbers. Old traditions are now dying out under the influence of television imams.
Berbers are an indigenous people of North Africa. There are an estimated [...]
MEDIA: U.S. Rights Groups Condemn Closure of Venezuelan Radio Stations
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By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (IPS) – Several U.S. rights groups condemned the closure of 34 radio stations, as well as the proposal of restrictive media legislation, by Venezuelan authorities Monday.
Public Works Minister and head of the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL), Diosdado Cabello, announced [...]
MIDEAST: ‘Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Boy’
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By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEL AVIV, Aug 3 (IPS) – "And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God" (Genesis 22:12). Not so much in fear of God [...]
