#human rights violations

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Guatemalan Human Rights Activist Rosalina Tuyuc Receives 29th Niwano Peace Prize

-     The Niwano Peace Foundation awarded the 29th Niwano Peace Prize to Ms. Rosalina Tuyuc ...

Civilian deaths up in 2011 Israeli-Palestinian fighting: NGO

The past year saw a sharp rise in the number of civilians killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an Israeli human ...

Sri Lanka denies new video on war crimes

Sri Lanka Thursday rejected as "baseless and unacceptable" a new documentary by Britain`s Channel 4 suggesting the ...

NG0s Push Myanmar to Remain on Path Towards Democracy

Myanmar has been entrusted by its fellow members in ASEAN to become the next ASEAN Chair in 2014 because the country ...

Guatemalan Human Rights Activist Rosalina Tuyuc to Receive 29th Niwano Peace Prize

-     The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 29th Niwano Peace Prize to Ms. Rosalina Tuyuc ...

RI`s NGOs urge release of political prisoners in Myanmar

A number of Indonesian NGOs, organized as Indonesian Solidarity for ASEAN Peoples (SIAP), wrote a letter to ASEAN ...

Meeting of OIC`s Human Rights Commission starts in Jakarta

The first meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation`s (OIC) Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission ...

Kontras urges president to settle past rights cases

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to ...

Ninety-five Indonesian citizens to be deported from US

Ninety-five Indonesian citizens living in Garrison City, New Hampshire, USA, are to be deported because their stay ...

TNI constantly aware of possible military embargo

National Defense Forces (TNI) Commander Admiral Agus Suhartono said Indonesia`s military remains constantly aware of ...

Indonesia has commitment to respect human rights

Indonesia has a commitment to respect human rights including the implementation of state defense, Defense Minister ...

Police violate human rights the most in 2011 : Komnas-HAM

The police as an institution have violated human rights the most during the 2011 period, according to the National ...

President Yudhoyono names lawyer as advisor

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has named senior lawyer Albert Hasibuan as a member of the presidential advisory ...

Bima clash needs to be investigated independently

While an investigation into bloody clashes between security forces and local people that claimed the lives of nine ...

The Freeport Case, government's lost conscience

The Political and security situation in Papua is still heating up, beginning with the repeated shootings spree at ...