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posted by zaina19 on June, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/25/2006 12:02 AM Monday, 19 June 2006 BBC NEWS European press review Papers are divided over the outcome of Slovakia's first general election since joining the European Union in 2004. The Russian press sees scant cause for celebration following the killing of Chechnya's rebel leader. And there's little appetite among Swiss commentators for the UN's new human rights body. Slovakia swings left Slovakia's left-wing Smer party won the largest share of the vote in Saturday's general election, but Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung doubts it will get the chance to roll back the liberal reforms of the past eight years. The paper says it is "far from certain" that Smer will manage to cobble together a government. Many are suffering as a result of social cutbacks Frankfurter Rundschau And that's just as well, it adds, since the reforms instituted by the centre-right government of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda have led to "huge growth", "greater prosperity" and ... >> full...
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The UN's new human rights council will need time to improve on the performance of its discredited predecessor, writes Ian Black
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/24/2006 11:45 PM Making a fresh start The UN's new human rights council will need time to improve on the performance of its discredited predecessor, writes Ian Black Friday June 23, 2006 United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty. Kofi Annan sounded a slightly plaintive note when he inaugurated the UN's new human rights council at the organisation's Geneva headquarters this week. But his call for "a clean break from the past" was widely appreciated: the dysfunctional body it is replacing was seen as corrupt and ineffective, good only for sordid backroom deals and sterile grandstanding. The council is an important part of Annan's much-heralded 60th-birthday UN reform package, "In Larger Freedom," which was endorsed by the World Summit in New York last autumn amid hopes for a better overall performance at the start of the 21st century. These are early days for this ... >> full...
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Situation around Northern Caucasians in Iraq is a humanitarian catastrophe
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/20/2006 9:44 PM Situation around Northern Caucasians in Iraq is a humanitarian catastrophe 20.6.2006 The events now happened to representatives of the Northern Caucasus in Iraq could be shortly characterized as a humanitarian catastrophe. Members of the delegation of the charitable public organization "Tadamon" (Unity) resided at the moment in Maykop, told about it IА REGNUM correspondent. According to Ahmed Chetava (Ketao), the head of the delegation, during any war those who do not adjoin one of belligerent parties suffer most of all. In that position today Northern Caucasians in Iraq, who incorporated in the public organization, are; they are not going to participate in the massacre. In the country there are no just two parties being at war against each other - they are much more. Pursuing their own interests, each of them promises representatives of Northern Caucasian Diaspora some dividends. However "Tadamon" united around itself ... >> full...
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U.S. Lawmakers Urge Bush to Pressure Putin over Democracy in Russia
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/22/2006 12:20 AM President George W. Bush / Photo: AP President George W. Bush / Photo: AP U.S. Lawmakers Urge Bush to Pressure Putin over Democracy in Russia 21.06.2006 MosNews Four prominent U.S. lawmakers urged President George W. Bush to rebuke Russian President Vladimir Putin over the “deterioration of democracy” in his country, as Russia prepares to host next month’s Group of Eight (G8) summit, AFP reported Tuesday. The lawmakers called on Bush — along with the leaders of G8 countries — to consider holding a separate meeting outside of Russia before or after the summit to be held next month in Saint Petersburg. “President Putin has steered Russia away from democracy and toward authoritarianism,” read the letter signed by Democratic Representative Tom Lantos and Republican David Dreier, together with senators John McCain, a Republican, and Democrat Joe Lieberman. “It is important that the G7 heads of state make clear that Russia’s actions ... >> full...
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Chechen Separatists Urge Release Of Russian Diplomats
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Chechen Separatists Urge Release Of Russian Diplomats Chechnya -- Zakayev, Akhmed x Akhmed Zakayev (file photo) (CTK) June 20, 2006 -- Chechen separatists have denied any contacts with an Al-Qaeda-linked group in Iraq that said it has abducted four Russian diplomats, demanding that Russia pull its troops out of Chechnya. Akhmed Zakayev, the exiled foreign minister in the self-declared Chechen separatist government, demanded that the Mujahedin Shura Council release the four Russian Embassy employees without any conditions. In a statement posted on a separatist website, Zakayev also said the Al-Qaeda-linked group's statement looked like an attempt to blacken the name of the Chechen rebel movement and a "provocation by Russian special services." Russia's Foreign Ministry said it had not received any demands directly, but was actively trying to establish the authenticity of the reports. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded that whoever was holding the four Russians release them immediately and unharmed, urging them not to ... >> full...
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