Tag Archives : human rights

In the last week of December an Indian court sentenced Dr. Binayak Sen to life imprisonment. Dr. Binayak Sen, a well-known doctor, who has won many human rights awards for his grass root level work with poor tribals in Maoist infested state of Chhatisgarh, has been charged for sedition apparently for his alleged links with Maoist rebels.  According [...]

The things that Russians do after getting rid of an oppressive communist government for almost a century! Some entrepreneurs in Southern Russia tied Boris, a donkey to a parasail harness and let him glide across the sea while the harness was attached to the boat. The idea was to attract the sunbathers to this part of the beach and then make them go [...]

The upper house of Russian parliament approved on Monday a bill that expands the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB), backed by President Dmitri Medvedev and criticized by human rights defenders. The text, which allows special services warn against anyone suspected of “create conditions” favorable to commit a crime, [...]

Dick Cheney admits being a supporter of the near-drowning torture technique called waterboarding, even if the US generally regards its use as a war crime. Robert Parry, author of a new book entitled Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, writes in AlterNet, “Cheney was unrepentant about his support for the technique. [...]

Three ads from the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and ACNUR send a message for and in behalf of the world’s refugees via visuals that are so heavily and beautifully photoshopped that one can no longer feel the ugliness of the raging social malaise upon which the public awareness campaign is based. The advertising campaign asks the question: Would [...]

Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection from abuse. This landmark human rights [...]

There is no rest, no respite. Since the Delhi HC verdict decriminalising homosexuality not a day goes by without someone throwing a tantrum and demanding the return of the infuriating law; it appears the homophobic of this country are even more obsessed with homosexuality than the LGBTs! The most interesting thing about these oppositions are people [...]

The Twitter has become explosive weapon against censorship. Sometimes, as in Iran, was the only weapon available to the dissent. And many governments, such as Chinese, fear it. So on Monday, when ethnic violence erupted in Xinjiang, the Twitter has been blocked. Photos, videos and testimony began to run frantically from the network. But this tool has [...]

Who want an antidote to the photographs of police beat demonstrators and girls dying in the streets of the Iranian capital have to go through the streets of the Moroccan capital. You can see protesters, but they are not targets of attacks. Girls can be seen on the street, but they are not targets of snipers. And they either look like their Iranian counterparts, [...]

The Zimbabwean army, controlled by the political party of President Robert Mugabe, violently seized the diamond fields of the country last year, and used the illegal income to buy the loyalty of insubordinate soldiers and enrich party leaders, according to a report released yesterday by organization Human Rights Watch. Zimbabwe‘s government [...]