Amnesty international calls for respect of detainees' rights in wake of 11 September

Amnesty International is calling for all those detained during US police investigations into the 11 September attacks in New York and Washington to be treated with full respect for their rights under US law and international standards. >>more

Arab Non-Governmental Organizations Denounces Bloodshed of American Civilians

Arab NGO's denounce the criminal terrorist attack on American and non- American innocent civilians on Tuesday. >>more

Three Rwandan arrested in Europe while Italy refuses to co-operate with the int. Tribunal due to pressure from Vatican.

ITALY is refusing to hand over to the international war crimes tribunal a Rwandan Catholic priest wanted on genocide charges. He is accused of ordering his own church to be bulldozed, crushing and killing up to 2,500 parishioners. >>more

Belgian Prosecutor Looks at Sharon Role in ' 82 Massacre Courts: The war crimes inquiry, part of 'global justice' trend, prompts the Israeli leader to scrap a visit to Brussels on a European trip this week.

JERUSALEM--As he prepares to visit Europe to appeal for support against Palestinian violence, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has come under investigation in Belgium for a 19-year-old wartime massacre in Lebanon--a case that aims to expand the reach of cross-border justice for crimes against humanity. >>more

UNITED NATIONS: GLOBAL ANTI-AIDS STRATEGY ADOPTED

The UN General Assembly's historic Special Session on HIV/AIDS ended on Wednesday with what Secretary-General Kofi Annan described as a "clear strategy" for tackling the epidemic. >>more

THE 5th ANNUAL ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING AND STUDY SESSION

The 5th Annual Asian Human Rights Training and Study Session organized by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University will take place from October 7-27, 2001 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. >>more

URUGUAY - Doctor expelled from medical corporation for having collaborated in practices of torture

FEMI expelled a military doctor for violations of ethics committed in 1972. The Medical Federation of the Interior (Federacion Medica del Interior - FEMI) decided unanimously to expel from their membership doctor Juan Antonio Riva Bugolio, who had been accused of endorsing the tortures and anguish that were inflicted in 1972 on political prisoners in the Batallon de Ingenieros No. 2 of Florida, where he served as a military doctor. >>more

CHILD CONCERN (Ethiopia)

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO), a member of the OMCT network, that the government is engaged in cruel and inhumane actions against street children in Addis Ababa. >>more

Washington Angry Over Losing Rights Seat

American officials, lawmakers and independent human rights groups voiced dismay and indignation today that the United States had lost its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission. >>more

LAW Calls for Immediate International Protection Presence and Stronger EU Role

Yesterday, members of the EU and other Western states clearly demonstrated their lack of political will and genuine desire to assist in ending Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories when they abstained from voting in favour of a weakly worded resolution for measures including calling upon relevant UN bodies to urgently consider the best ways of providing the necessary international protection for the Palestinian people. >> more

The UN Human Rights Commission Condemns Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

The UN Human Rights Commission Condemns Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories following Israeli Forces Invasion of Palestinian Controlled areas and their Shelling of Palestinian Civilian and Government Properties >> more

CHILD CONCERN

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by a reliable source that the government in Chad keeps pressuring its own population in order to oblige children to join the armed forces. Families reportedly have to choose between accepting the recruitment of one of their children or participating in the "war effort" by paying a tax or donating a part of their crops. >>more

Iran: Human Rights Commission In Jeopardy

Human Rights Watch expressed serious concern today that a resolution on Iran at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights may be in jeopardy. The international monitoring organization said that escalating arrests of peaceful activists while the Commission has been meeting only underscore the need for the member states of the Commission to support the draft resolution when it comes up for a vote this week. >>more

Mounting Human Rights Crisis in Hebron

For the past six months, the West Bank city of Hebron has been the scene of serious and sustained human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The eighty-two page report, Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District, documents excessive use of force and unlawful killings by Israeli forces, Palestinian targeting of Israeli civilians, and a systematic policy of Israeli blockades and curfews that amount to collective punishment. The report also brings to light a disturbing pattern of violence committed by Jewish settlers against Palestinian civilians in and around Hebron, often committed with the knowledge of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers in the area. >>more

Deutschlasd - Nazi SS commander aged 83 jailed by German court

RAVENSBURG DISTRICT COURT SENDS FORMER SS COMMANDER TO JAIL.
An 83-year-old man who was a Nazi SS commander in World War II has been jailed by a German court for 12 years for murdering Jews in the final months of the war. Julius Viel was convicted of murdering seven Jewish prisoners at a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Viel, who had denied the charges, sat impassively as the verdict was read out. He is thought to be one of the last Nazis likely to stand trial. >>more