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SOLOMAN ISLANDS: School hit as risk for civilians heightens

The organisation was seriously concerned about what appears to have been indiscriminate shelling of a village from a police patrol boat seized by paramilitaries . 'Villagers have reported being...

BEIJING + 5: No going back on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's human rights

The Beijing Platform for Action, a blueprint for achieving Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's equality, development and peace, was adopted at the Fourth World Conference for...

Chechen journalist detained

According to Russian sources, Taisa Isayeva, who works for Chechen-Press news agency based in Georgia, was detained at the border because she was carrying a video camera and a portable computer...

Killings of Lebanese civilians by Israeli forces in south Lebanon must be investigated

Information gathered by Amnesty International, including during a fact-finding visit to south Lebanon, suggests that in at least four incidents on 22 and 23 May 2000 Israeli forces directed tank fire...

Secret executions

'The prisoners, their lawyers and their families are unable to obtain official confirmation of the names of those scheduled for execution. If the Japanese government is not ashamed of the death...

OAS General Assembly: an opportunity to focus on human rights

The human rights organisation and other Non Governmental Organizations(NGOs) will be attending the meeting of the OAS General Assembly in Windsor, Canada, from 4 to 6 June and have prepared a joint...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Win Right to Challenge Discriminatory Electoral Law

Under existing legislation, {Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights} are denied the right to register to vote and to stand for election. Two Women's rights's rightss rights's...

Human rights cannot be suspended

The organisation emphasized the important principle reflected in international and national law that certain human rights guarantees can never be suspended. Fijian military and police officers will be...

Pardon illustrates need for maintaining executive clemency

Pedro Rax had been convicted of the 1996 murder of his wife and condemned to die by lethal injection. President Portillo yesterday commuted his sentence from death to 30 years' imprisonment. 'Besides...

Stay of execution. Texas conveyor belt of death comes to momentary halt

'The 30-day reprieve granted to Ricky McGinn shows that even a state that has executed men and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights at a rate of one every two weeks for the past...