Last week the British High Court pronounced a memorable decision: every military man of H.B.M undertaking a campaign in foreign countries, will be bound over the Human Rights Act for the prisoner’s treatment - the British fundamental chart protecting the human rights. The Supreme Court justicesj rejected the point of the Ministry of Defence and the high court public prosecutor Lord Goldsmith, continue...
Abdul Kabir – not his real name – is 12 years old. He left his village in Uruzgan and went in Kandahar to work in a relative’s shop. But when he got there, the man did not want to employ him and shut the door in his face. Abdul went to the labour market and two men promised him a work as a bricklayer for one dollar a day. Instead of bringing him to the yard, they brought him in an abandoned building and abused him. continue...
“After finding out that if we want to study abroad we must be accompanied by a male relation, myself and some friends decided to get married. We’re hoping to do it as soon as possible so that we can take advantage of the foreign study programme”. Rights being protected. This is the story told to the Saudi daily newspaper, Arab News, continue...
Lambasting Cuba. During the Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 12th to 30th March 2007, Swedish chancellor Carl Bildt gave a speech in which he strongly accused Cuba of violating human rights. “The UN has a responsibility to supervise respect for human rights and human freedoms. Both are rather restricted in Cuba and it is our duty to say so. continue...
The March 8 holiday has always divided public opinion between those opposed to singling out one day only to acknowledge women, and those for whom it is crucial to honor “the other half of the sky” with its own holiday. Hunger Strike. Whatever side you stand on, you cannot pass the day without devoting some thought to Iran, continue...
Without a thought to the problems of wedded couples in the west, couples who are in love in Saudi Arabia are made to divorce and, in some cases, sent to prison. Fatima and Mansour. This happened to 34-year old Fatima Al Timani, who has been imprisoned with her one-year old son in the city of Damman for six months. Fatima is only the latest victim of the forced divorce phenomenon, continue...
In Colombia the Constitutional Court pronounced a sentence designed to cause a real turn in society: homosexual couples share the same proprietary rights of hetero. It is enough to have two years of cohabitation and then it's done. A decision, in a Catholic country like Colombia, that induced a severe reaction in the Church, through the words of the Colombian Episcopal Conference President, continue...
