Article: Capital punishment opposed in Kurdistan: Human rights activists seek to abolish death penalty.

Article: BURKINA FASO-HUMAN RIGHTS: DEATH ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... parliament to uphold the death penalty has shocked human rights advocates here ... fundamentally violating human rights in our country ... confirming the death penalty. Ouedraogo, who ... Inter-African Human Rights Union (UIDH ...

Article: How Texas celebrates human rights.(death ...
National Catholic Reporter;  December 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Faulder may well be guilty ... opinion necessary to secure the death penalty. No one testified that, due ... with so little thought to human rights, which our country stretches ...

Article: Human rights group slams 'death ...
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  August 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Imposing the death penalty for those ... by leading human rights group here ... The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society ... scrap the death penalty in their outdated ... Declaration for Human Rights. "The death penalty that has been ...

Article: Internal perspectives on Chinese human rights ...
Texas International Law Journal;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... one area recognized by human rights activists: the death penalty. From the late imperial ... broad terms of "Chinese human rights," must be addressed ... academics have examined the death penalty and Chinese human rights abuses at length, but ...

Article: Rwanda's human rights body supports death ...
Xinhua News Agency;  November 1, 2002 ;     455 words ...Rwanda's human rights body supports death penalty on genocidaires NAIROBI ... The National Human Rights Commission of Rwanda ... that although the death penalty had been proposed as violation of human rights, it should be retained ...

Article: European Convention on Human Rights' ban on ...
AP Worldstream;  July 15, 2003 ;     323 words ... ... the European Convention on Human Rights' ban on the death penalty in peacetime does not violate ... requires adherence to its human rights convention. Armenian lawmakers ... the full abolition of the death penalty, said Justice Minister David ...

Article: The Palestinian Center for Human Rights on the ...
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  September 1, 2005 ;     634 words ... ... implementation of the death penalty, which represents ... a moratorium on the death penalty be a prelude to the ... legislation which allows the death penalty. 3. PCHR rejects ... Palestinian Center for Human Rights (