human rights watch update 22-29 sept 05

[minkyrra]

i know this wont be of interest to everyone, but for those who like to be kept aware of such matters....

human rights watch - weekly news letter.

titles and links to the site, should you wish to read more

+ Turkey: Officials Try to Shut Down Rights Group
-The threat by Turkish officials to close down an organization defending lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's rights

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/27/turkey11784.htm


+ Malaysia: ISA (Internal Security Act ) Detainees Beaten and Humiliated
- Internal Security Act Should Be Repealed

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/28/malays11788.htm


+ Detained Without Trial
- Abuse of Internal Security Act Detainees in Malaysia

http://hrw.org/reports/2005/malaysia0905/


+ Other Screams of Terror
- People who lived through 1984 in Delhi are unlikely to forget the horrors.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/27/india11792.htm


+ HRW Letter to Secretary Margaret Spellings (U.S. Secretary of Education )
- concerns re waiver to the education provisions of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which requires school districts to enroll homeless children immediately

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/26/usdom11783.htm


+ U.N.: 'Disappearances' Treaty a Major Advance
- The adoption of an international treaty against forced disappearances at the United Nations is a great step forward in the fight against this crime

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/26/global11785.htm


+ New Accounts of Torture by U.S. Troops
-Soldiers Say Failures by Command Led to Abuse

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/25/usint11776.htm


+ Leadership Failure
- Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the U.S. Army's
82nd Airborne Division

http://hrw.org/reports/2005/us0905/



+ New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
- Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/22/usdom11773.htm




+ Interview with Brad Adams, outlining Burmese ethnic minority communities' ongoing horrors
-Gross violations of international humanitarian law are regularly committed by government forces, including the continued recruitment and use of child soldiers, extrajudicial executions, rape of women and girls, torture, and forced relocation

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/22/burma11774.htm

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We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable.

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We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.

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[illuminati786]

hi minx, long time no speak.

[rainbowcraft]

Ello Lumi!!! Where have you been?!

[minkyrra]

hi minx, long time no speak.

hi lumi

hope you are keeping well

when are you off to scotland?