ICRC urges Putin to help on Chechen prison visits
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/28/2006 12:04 AM Wednesday, June 28, 2006 ICRC urges Putin to help on Chechen prison visits GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to break a deadlock and allow it to resume visits to detainees captured in the Chechen conflict. The agency, which suspended visits in September 2004 saying its standard conditions were not being fully met, said that ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger had written to Putin because “negotiations have failed” since then. It had registered 3,212 detainees, the majority Chechens, in Russian prisons at the time, according to the ICRC. “Mr. Kellenberger is deeply concerned but remains convinced that the ICRC’s activities in the Russian Federation - especially its visits to detainees - respond to a real need in humanitarian terms and play a constructive role ...” it said in a statement. Kellenberger, ... >> full...
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All Human Beings Are Born Free and Equal In Dignity and Rights
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/27/2006 3:15 PM All Human Beings Are Born Free and Equal In Dignity and Rights U.N. DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. ART. 1. As top news of yesterday mentioned that Russia Seeks Security Council Meeting On Iraq Murders, and that is the right for any member of the United Nations to call for the United Nations Security Council to hold a meeting to discuss any urgent matter that might arise. Russia and being a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, acquired for an urgent meeting of the Security Council that pertains to an urgent issue about the problem of the Russian diplomats that were involved in kidnapping and eventual death. Federal Republic of Russia wanted to discuss the death of four members of its embassy employees in Iraq. Of course, the United Nations Security Council itself and all the other members and non members had already condemned, ... >> full...
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PACE Not Reporting on Human Rights Violations in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/26/2006 11:13 PM PACE Not Reporting on Human Rights Violations in Chechnya 26.06.2006 MosNews The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will not prepare a separate human rights report on Chechnya, a Russian MP quoted by RIA Novosti said Monday. A group of deputies has proposed making a separate report on human rights in the North Caucasus, but the bureau rejected the initiative. “The bureau decided not to draft a separate report on the situation regarding human rights in Chechnya and hand this topic over to the monitoring commission,” Konstantin Kosachev, who heads the international affairs committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament said. Kosachev said PACE, which has opened its summer session in Strasbourg, and Chechen leaders were conducting a constructive dialogue, and “discussing this situation half a year after this issue was discussed at PACE would mean refusing support to Chechen leaders.” He said a section ... >> full...
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NGOs Urge G8 Focus on Human Rights Situation in Russia
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/26/2006 11:20 PM Photo from www.psdp.ru Photo from www.psdp.ru NGOs Urge G8 Focus on Human Rights Situation in Russia 26.06.2006 MosNews Ahead of Russia’s hosting of the Group of Eight (G8) summit next month, a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is touring European capitals to draw attention to what it says is a deteriorating human rights situation in Russia, CNSNews.com daily reports. Rights advocates said they hoped their concerns would be taken up when the heads of state of the leading industrialized nations — the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan — are hosted by the Russian government in St. Petersburg from July 15-17. A recent report by groups including the World Organization Against Torture has documented a sharp crackdown on human rights organizations in Russia. “This year is a special one for Russia in terms of its international status,” said Tanya Lokshina, director of DEMOS Center for Information and Research ... >> full...
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The 'clash of civilizations': Who's to blame?
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/24/2006 11:53 PM International Herald Tribune The 'clash of civilizations': Who's to blame? International Herald Tribune FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2006 THE WAR ON TERROR It is true that relations between Muslims around the world and the West have not been particularly warm in recent times. And the reason is simple: Sept. 11 pitched the West against the Muslim world. Al Qaeda became a synonym for Islam, and America's so-called war on terror effectively - and some will say conveniently - became a war on Islam. Muslims are generally labeled "fundamentalist" and "terrorist" and this provides them an excuse to persecute Muslims. I can tell you that if I travel to say, London, for instance, because my name is Saleh, they will take time and be thorough in clearing me through the immigrations because, as far as they are concerned, I could be concealing a bomb somewhere. That is how bad ... >> full...
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