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Water you playing at?
Everyone should have access to clean, safe drinking water. Seems fairly obvious, you might be thinking. That is a fundamental human right, right? Well no, not according to all of the counties represented at the UN General Assembly, not yet. And when the resolution was proposed last Wednesday 28th, a massive 41 countries, amongst them the UK and the US, abstained from the vote.
No countries
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The right to arrest those suspected of war crimes
A letter in the Guardian yesterday expresses the alarm of more than 40 signatories about Kenneth Clarke's proposed changes on the right to arrest war crime suspects. Those who have signed the letter include parliamentarians, trade union leaders, lawyers and people from the creative arts. The letter states that it is no secret that the move is a result of pressure from the Israeli government, con
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Russia, pre-crime arrests, new law.
There's a new law to be enacted in Russia that will result in people being arrested before any crime is actually committed. It's akin to the 1992 film Minority Report starring Tom Cruise and has major repercussions for human rights. Here's a report from Tom Parftt in today Guardian. Please read and digest. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/29/russia-minority-report-law-fsbThanks for your ti
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Control Orders - telling the government why we don't want them
The UK's control order regime, which Amnesty has opposed since its inception, took another kicking in the courts yesterday. The Court of Appeal rejected a Government challenge to a landmark High Court ruling allowing compensation claims from people whose liberty had been unfairly restricted by control orders, in this case two people known as AF and AE for legal reasons.
It's a good result. Vic
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Bedouins evicted in the Negev Desert.
I witnessed for myself a Bedouin village being demolished by Israeli police in the Negev Desert in December 2009. Here's a new article by the BBC about 300 people being made homeless this week in similar circumstances. There's a video as well so please watch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10777040 Thanks for your time.Billy Briggs.www.billybriggs.co.uk
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THE VOICE OF VOICELESS BY ABRAHAM NGONGO BUANA
Apeople who die without help. Since the coup that brought the young dictator Kabilain power, it always seems that there still be a blur surrounding cases ofmurders being committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Individuals whomay serve as important witnesses or in case they are suspected in the murder, instead of being heard to give any light onthe different cases of murder, they are just
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THE VOICE OF VOICELESS
Apeople who die without help. Since the coup that brought the young dictator Kabilain power, it always seems that there still be a blur surrounding cases ofmurders being committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Individuals whomay serve as important witnesses or in case they are suspected in the murder, instead of being heard to give any light onthe different cases of murder, they are just
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