EU partner Russia is 'crushing democracy', NGO says
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posted by zaina19 on January, 2007 as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/17/2007 3:03 AM EU partner Russia is 'crushing democracy', NGO says 17.01.2007 - 09:28 CET | By Andrew Rettman EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU "strategic partner" Russia is "crushing" democracy NGO Freedom House has warned in its 2006 survey, as Germany's Angela Merkel gears up to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday (21 January) to break the ice on a new "Strategic Partnership Treaty." "Putin has systematically weakened or marginalized independent media, advocates for democracy and regime critics generally," the NGO's research director Arch Puddington writes, citing the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, abuses in Chechnya and a crack-down on foreign funded NGOs. "Russia thus serves as a model for authoritarian-minded leaders in the region" and is a "pervasive influence" Mr Puddington added, with Freedom House ... >> full...
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Study: U.S. Media Overlooked Major Humanitarian Stories in 2006
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/19/2007 1:16 AM Study: U.S. Media Overlooked Major Humanitarian Stories in 2006 Haider Rizvi OneWorld US Thu., Jan. 18, 2007 NEW YORK, Jan 18 (OneWorld) - Last year millions of people in many countries lost their lives as a result of wars, violence, disease, and hunger, yet the major television networks in the United States did not tell their stories to the U.S. public, a new study on media coverage notes. The staggering human toll taken by tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition as well as the devastation caused by wars in the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, and the Democratic Republic of Congo were almost completely ignored by the leading television networks, according to a well-respected medical aid group that monitors media coverage on humanitarian issues at the end of each year. In its annual report for 2006, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, said it found very ... >> full...
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European Court Finds Two Chechens Were Tortured
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/19/2007 1:23 AM European Court Finds Two Chechens Were Tortured Ruling Is Panel's First On Issue in Restive Russian Republic By Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Inmates walk in a yard at Chechnya's Chernokozovo detention center, where brothers Adam and Arbi Chitayev were transferred by the Russian military in April 2000. Inmates walk in a yard at Chechnya's Chernokozovo detention center, where brothers Adam and Arbi Chitayev were transferred by the Russian military in April 2000. (Associated Press) Friday, January 19, 2007 MOSCOW, Jan. 18 -- The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that two Chechen brothers were tortured in their strife-torn Russian republic and that authorities there failed to investigate their allegations of abuse. It was the first decision on torture in Chechnya issued by the court, based in Strasbourg, France. "The applicants were indisputably kept in a permanent state of physical pain and anxiety owing to their uncertainty about their fate and ... >> full...
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Azerbaijani law defenders threat to complain against Russia to the Council of Europe
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/22/2007 1:05 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 20/1/2007 Azerbaijani law defenders threat to complain against Russia to the Council of Europe Azerbaijani human rights activists can apply their complaint to the Council of Europe in connection with deportation of Azerbaijani citizens from Russia. The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt about it from the Azerbaijani human rights activists. One of them - Eldar Zeinalov - has noted that should the authorities of the Russian Federation breach the rights of Azerbaijani citizens while deporting them, the local human rights defenders should surely lodge a complaint against Russia to the Council of Europe (CE) and other international organizations. "In such case, we shall even strive for initiating debates at the Council of Europe on the issue. However, so far we ... >> full...
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L. Dorogova: refusal to give out bodies of the militants perished on October 13, 2005, aggravates the situation in Kabardino-Balkaria
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/22/2007 1:10 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 20/1/2007 L. Dorogova: refusal to give out bodies of the militants perished on October 13, 2005, aggravates the situation in Kabardino-Balkaria Advocate Larissa Dorogova, a Bar member of Kabardino-Balkaria, who is representing the interests of the relatives of those perished during the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, gave her comments in an interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the situation with the decision on the "issue of giving out of the bodies." In her words, nothing has changed in the matter despite the fact that parents' pickets at the building of the Republic's Office of Public Prosecutor continue to the present day. "For several times, we have addressed the Office asking to tell us about the condition of the bodies and who is in charge of preserving them. The investigatory group has answered, but not to the ... >> full...
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