Tag Archives : human rights violations

? Eight year old girl, Caroline Aya went missing right outside her house when her neighbor kidnapped her. Few days later, what was feared happened when her body was found with her tongue cut. The kid bled to death. A gory ritual in Uganda where humans especially children are sacrificed is on the rise. In 2007, three cases were reported. However, last [...]

A de facto AIDS colony in Tuol Sambo, Cambodia is a gross violation of human rights. The country’s government has been urged by more than 100 international organizations and experts to ‘immediately stop sending HIV-affected families there.’ These concerned groups have also asked the Cambodian government for immediate action on improving the living [...]

The 56-page report entitled ‘Hostages to Peace: Threats to Human Rights and Democracy in Somaliland’ affirms that the government in Somaliland has, indeed, instituted a semblance of democratic stability in the country despite the existence of armed conflict. However, the government continues to disregard the rule of law and undermine democratic [...]

A month ago, the International Commission of Jurists urged the White House to change the term ‘War on Terror’ because it “justifies the violations of humanitarian law and human rights.” Some sectors of the army had also requested a change of title because it gathers under a single name all the policies that deal with different enemies. George [...]

International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) distributed dense black highlighter pens to journalists attending a press conference on ‘Freedom of the Press at the 2008 Olympic Games’. There can be no better way of creating awareness about freedom of press and governmental censorship. The symbolic black highlighting pen which would leave a censor [...]

December 10 of every year commemorates the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The day is also a reminder that atrocities committed by man against man have not abated, in spite of the Declaration. It’s been 60 years but man-made oppression has not been reduced. Tribal communities and indigenous peoples remain unrecognized because [...]