Indonesia -- New president - new hope for human rights?

M2 Presswire;  August 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Indonesia -- New president - new hope for human rights? (C)1994-2001...promotion of human rights. Amnesty International...welcomes the new president's apology...urges the new President to give guarantees that human rights defenders...

USA -- A new President - renewed hope for human rights?

M2 Presswire;  January 22, 2001 ;     643 words ......INTERNATIONAL: USA -- A new President - renewed hope for human rights? (C)1994-2001 M2...live up to its' human rights promises. These...in international human rights standards. However...citizens. Serious human rights violations persist...broader awarness ...

TIPSHEET FOR OBAMA - New era for human rights

The Boston Globe;  November 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ......faced as the new president will be with enormous...repairing our human- rights persona may not...as hubris. The new president should reverse...decision. Many other human-rights challenges will...skepticism that the new president intends to set...different ...

Chile -- The quest for truth and justice -- a challenge for the new...

M2 Presswire;  March 10, 2000 ;     354 words ......a challenge for the new President (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...the truth about past human rights violations and bringing...central component in the new President's program of government...Investigations of human rights violations committed...said. We encourage the ...

Guatemala's New President Promises Better Human Rights

NPR All Things Considered;  June 21, 1993 ;     700+ words ......of the worst human rights records in the...the country's human rights ombudsman, a...see if their new president can reign in...Carpio, the new president of Guatemala...general says that human rights are an instinct...1992, his own human ...

Amnesty alleges Indonesian military abuse in Aceh, urges action from new...

AP Worldstream;  October 8, 2004 ;     346 words ......committing widespread human rights abuses in war-torn Aceh...released last month by Human Rights Watch that alleged systematic...untouched by grave abuses of human rights," said Ingrid Massage...International urges the new president of Indonesia to state publicly his ...

Fed: Australia to again reject China huMan rights vote

AAP General News (Australia);  March 19, 2000 ;     473 words ......again reject China huMan rights vote CANBERRA, March...and the arrival of a new president, offered the prospect...States resolution in the Human Rights Commission condemning...the other to China's human rights record," Mr Downer...

SA: Lawyers need to protect human rights says new president

AAP General News (Australia);  October 15, 2001 ;     109 words ......Australia) 10-15-2001 SA: Lawyers need to protect human rights says new president The new president of the Law Council of Australia...legal profession must be vigilant in upholding human rights in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United...

Annan urges Colombian president not to ignore human rights

AP Worldstream;  September 26, 2002 ;     384 words ......Annan urged Colombia's new president on Thursday to respect human rights in his fight against terrorism...respect of international human rights laws, according to Eckhard...Some U.S. lawmakers and human rights groups are concerned about...

Transition, history and human rights; 'a country without justice or memory...

History Today;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Argentine elections, the new President Nestor Kirchner's forthright...of the military accused of human rights abuses; by annulling the...laws which amnestied known human rights violators, laws passed in...political transition and human rights, exploring the impact and...

Annan to Uribe: Respect Human Rights

AP Online;  September 26, 2002 ;     336 words ......Kofi Annan urged Colombia' s new president to respect human rights in his fight against terrorism...respect of international human rights laws, according to Fred Eckhard...Some U.S. lawmakers and human rights groups say the measures excessively...

GLOBAL REVIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS:CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH

Congressional Testimony;  March 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......human rights. First, the very idea of human rights presupposes that certain rights are...the United States has a commitment to human rights that is unique in the history of the...confound the designs of evil men.`` Human rights are indivisible, mutually reinforcing and ...

STATE DEPARTMENT COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS:BARRY F. LOWENKRON

Congressional Testimony;  March 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......their international commitments on human rights. I would ask, Mr. Chairman, that the...strong contributions to the promotion of human rights and democracy worldwide, and for your...and engage foreign officials on our human rights and democracy agenda, as I did in ...

JEAN-PAUL COSTA/ECHR.(European Court of Human Rights)(Brief article)

European Report;  December 11, 2006 ;     64 words ...The European Court of Human Rights elected on 29 November Jean-Paul Costa (French) as its new President for a three-year term, beginning on 19 January 2007. Costa replaces Luzius Wildhaber (Swiss), who has been the Court's President since 1 November 1998. Costa has been a judge of the EU Court of ...

Rights group says homophobic rhetoric among new Polish leaders threatens...

AP Worldstream;  February 16, 2006 ;     295 words ......02-16-2006 Dateline: WARSAW, Poland A human rights group said Thursday that homophobic...in this Roman Catholic country. Human Rights Watch, a New-York based group, also said it had written a letter to new President Lech Kaczynski calling on him to...and Transgender Rights ...