Tag: human rights
group name: oneworldus
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August 20, 2008 11:23 AM EDT --
August 18, 2008
Haider Rizvi , OneWorld US
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (OneWorld) - Major players in the food and cosmetics industries are coming under heavy pressure from environmental activists . . . more
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August 20, 2008 11:52 AM EDT --
August 19, 2008
Alison Raphael , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (OneWorld) - A leading U.S. human rights group blasted Olympic corporate sponsors such as McDonald's, Panasonic, and . . . more
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October 02, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 (OneWorld) - Environmental groups and human rights activists are up in arms about the Bush administration's move to pursue a separate strategy instead of contributing to the . . . more
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January 11, 2008 02:54 PM EST --
NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Human rights activists will lead rallies across the United States today to build pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to end the detention of foreign prisoners . . . more
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December 12, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (OneWorld) - The United Nations today launched a worldwide campaign to stop human rights abuses and violations by governments, private businesses and others.
The year-long . . . more
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May 05, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Fri., May. 2, 2008
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (OneWorld) - The Canadian government has drawn fierce condemnation from the world's indigenous communities for . . . more
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December 22, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
Human rights advocates are cheering the genocide conviction of former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Mengistu and dozens of his military government officials were convicted Tuesday of the killing . . . more
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April 03, 2008 09:46 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Fri., Apr. 4, 2008
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional . . . more
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May 22, 2008 03:45 PM EDT --
Alison Raphael
OneWorld US
Tue., May. 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, May 20 (OneWorld) - Re-electing Sri Lanka to serve a second term on the UN Human Rights Council would represent a severe . . . more
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December 22, 2006 01:36 PM EST --
Human rights groups reacted with skepticism Thursday after military prosecutors charged eight Marines in the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in the western Iraqi town of Haditha.
The squad . . . more
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April 02, 2008 03:47 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Wed., Apr. 2, 2008
NEW YORK, Apr 1 (OneWorld) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has drawn fire from one . . . more
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September 21, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
LONDON, Sep 20 (OneWorld) - A legless bomb victim who heads an Angolan disability organization was thrown off a flight to London, it was disclosed this week.
The Portuguese airline TAP pilot told Carla . . . more
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June 10, 2008 04:19 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Tue., Jun. 10, 2008
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9 (OneWorld) - A prominent international rights watchdog has reacted sharply to the U.S. government's decision . . . more
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October 07, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
Global civil society organizations are pressing the 192-nation U.N. General Assembly to recognize indigenous peoples' rights to their land and resources.
''This is an opportunity that must . . . more
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November 15, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
Human rights lawyers were joined by two winners of the Nobel Peace prize in filing charges in Germany Tuesday, accusing outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of committing war crimes in Iraq . . . more
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March 10, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
Henry Mance and Susie Braun
OneWorld US
Sat., Mar. 8, 2008
BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, . . . more
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May 05, 2008 11:31 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Sat., May. 3, 2008
UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (OneWorld) - The global food crisis is likely to persist if speculative investment by the corporate world is not . . . more
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June 06, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
Both the United Nations and some of the world's leading human rights organizations are welcoming the start of the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
UN peacekeepers arresting . . . more
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October 31, 2007 11:44 AM EDT --
NEW YORK, Oct 29 (OneWorld) - Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, is facing criminal charges in France for ordering the torture of prisoners in Iraq and at the military prison at Guantanamo . . . more
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January 15, 2008 09:25 AM EST --
NEW YORK, Jan 14 (IPS) - As the world marked the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the first orange-jumpsuit-clad prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, human rights groups . . . more
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