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PAKISTAN: 126 extrajudicial killings, 400 disappearances

Monday, 23 September 2013, 11:41 am | Asian Human Rights Commission

Counting up to August 2013, as many as 126 extrajudicial deaths and over 400 disappearances have taken place in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Violent killings and disappearance after arrest by authorities continues without relent. More >>

SRI LANKA: a brief history of Christianity

Monday, 23 September 2013, 11:30 am | Asian Human Rights Commission

In recent years the History of Sri Lanka has become an important subject, not only because it is in school curriculum, but also because it has been used to shape politics and justify the ethno-religious basis for State policies. More >>

Pakistan: Two Suicide attacks on a Church in Peshawar

Monday, 23 September 2013, 11:05 am | Xavier William

Over 85 dead and over 140 injured in a suicide attack on a Church located in Swati gate, Peshawar. All Saints Church (Church of Pakistan) is located in the old city area of Swati gate in Peshawar, Khyber PukhtunKhawa province. More >>

Nigeria: New PDP Demands Immediate Recall of Emordi

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:40 am | Nwaorgu Faustinus

The Alhaji Baraje led-PDP has called on the presidency to recall Senator Joy Emordi who was sacked as Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters because of her candid advice that inducing members of the National Assembly financially to ... More >>

Terrorist Attack at Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:36 am | US State Department

Today's terrorist massacre of so many innocents is a heartbreaking reminder that there exists unspeakable evil in our world which can destroy life in a senseless instant. I want to express my deepest condolences - and the condolences of our entire ... More >>

Political Situation in Bahrain

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:35 am | US State Department

For the past two years, with the support of the international community, the Bahraini government and opposition groups have been embarking on an important process of dialogue and reform. More >>

Ban Appalled By Terrorist Attack on Church in Pakistan

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:24 am | UN News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is "appalled" by today's terrorist attack on a Christian church in north-western Pakistan, and urged the Government to do everything possible to find and bring the perpetrators to justice. More >>

UN Condemns 'Totally Reprehensible' Terrorist Act in Nairobi

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:22 am | UN News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack at a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and urged the perpetrators to be brought to justice as soon as possible. More >>

UN Chief, Security Council Condemn Terrorist Attack in Kenya

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:19 am | UN News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have condemned the terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, which killed scores of people and wounded many more. More >>

UN Envoy Condemns Murder of Abducted Israeli Soldier

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:19 am | UN News

The top United Nations official for the Middle East peace process today condemned the abduction and killing of an off-duty Israeli soldier, and emphasized the need for calm on the ground during this "critical moment" in the political efforts. More >>

Broadband Use Up But Least Developed Countries Left Behind

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:18 am | UN News

With nearly two out of every five people in the world online by the end of the year, more than two-thirds of those living in developing countries will not have access to the Internet, the United Nations today reported in a global survey of broadband ... More >>

UN Chief Following Closely and With Alarm Attack in Nairobi

Monday, 23 September 2013, 10:16 am | UN News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has spoken with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta about today's attack on a shopping centre in the capital city of Nairobi. Mr. Ban "is following closely and with alarm" the developments and is being regularly briefed by his senior ... More >>

Al-Khudari demands land, sea and air access for Gaza

Sunday, 22 September 2013, 12:12 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman

The Popular Committee Against the Siege on Thursday demanded the Israeli occupation open all commercial crossings with the Gaza Strip. More >>

Italy urged to “rekindle its fight to end human trafficking”

Sunday, 22 September 2013, 11:34 am | UNHCR

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, today called on the Government of Italy to further boost and coordinate its national anti-trafficking response. More >>

Russian allegations of piracy ‘unjustified and desperate’

Sunday, 22 September 2013, 11:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Earlier today, Greenpeace International strongly rejected an allegation of piracy leveled at its ship Arctic Sunrise in the Russian Arctic, describing it as a desperate attempt to justify the illegal boarding of its ship in international waters. More >>

ITF defends Honduran union leader after armed attack

Sunday, 22 September 2013, 11:06 am | International Transport Workers' Federation

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has acted to defend a Honduran dockers’ trade union leader after armed assailants tried to batter their way into his home and kill him. More >>

Greenpeace dismisses Russian allegations of piracy

Sunday, 22 September 2013, 9:42 am | Greenpeace International

Greenpeace International has strongly rejected an allegation of piracy leveled at its ship Arctic Sunrise in the Russian Arctic, describing it as a desperate attempt to justify the illegal boarding of its ship in international waters. More >>

Greenpeace ship remains under control of Russian authorities

Saturday, 21 September 2013, 2:15 pm | Greenpeace

Amsterdam, September 20, 2013: The crew of the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise remain in the custody of Russian authorities following an armed boarding of the ship in international waters yesterday. The ship has now been under armed guard since ... More >>

Christian World Service launches appeal for Myanmar Flood

Friday, 20 September 2013, 6:00 pm | Christian World Service

CWS is asking New Zealanders to help rural people in Myanmar (Burma), needing food, water and agricultural support. More >>

Palestinian Fisherman Injured and His Finger Amputated

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:41 pm | Palestinian Centre For Human Rights

Palestinian Fisherman Injured and His Finger Amputated as Israeli Naval Troops Fire at Fishing Boat in Gaza Sea More >>

Israeli Forces Demolish Residential Community

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:38 pm | Palestinian Centre For Human Rights

In the Context of the Policy of Forcible Displacement in Area C, Israeli Forces Demolish Residential Community in Northern Jordan Valley Rendering 48 Palestinians, Including 17 Children, Homeless More >>

Israeli Forces Use Excessive Force Killing Palestinians

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:35 pm | Palestinian Centre For Human Rights

Israeli Forces Use Excessive Force Killing Palestinian Civilian and Wounding 4 Others, Including 3 Children, in Jenin Refugee Camp More >>

Clean Pacific Campaign Makes a Difference

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:33 pm | Secretariat of the Pacific Community

19 September 2013, Apia Samoa, 24SM - A successful Clean Pacific Campaign led by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme was commended by members today. More >>

Power Station Threatened with Closure Due to Fuel Shortage

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:30 pm | Palestinian Government in Gaza

The Energy and Natural Resources Authority suffers from an acute shortage of fuel needed to operate the only power plant in the Gaza Strip. Under these extreme conditions, caused by the closure of border crossings and scarcity of fuel supplies, the power ... More >>

Plot to Remove David Mark & Aminu Tambuwal

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:25 pm | Nwaorgu Faustinus

The Baraje led- New PDP says it has learnt of the plan to impeach the headships of the National Assembly headed by Senator David Mark and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal. More >>

UFree Network Condemns Israeli Arbitrary Arrests

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:22 pm | UFree Network

UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian political prisoners and detainees strongly condemned the arrest and imprisonment of eight Jerusalemite minors, from Shuafat refugee camp, by Israeli occupation forces. More >>

Looming Environmental Disaster: Gaza Sewage Pumped Into Sea

Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:19 pm | Gaza - Local Government Ministry

The Minister of Local Government in Gaza, Mohammed Al -Farra, has announced in a statement that the Gaza waste-water treatment plant is no longer functioning because of the lack of fuel, and from Thursday raw sewage will be pumped into the sea. More >>

Navi Pillay At a Press Conference During Her Kabul Visit

Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:24 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Opening Remarks By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Navi Pillay At a Press Conference During Her Visit to Afghanistan More >>

Enforced Disappearances: UN Experts Official Visit to Spain

Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:21 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (19 September 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances* will visit Spain from 23 to 30 September 2013. More >>

Brazil: Female Chief Leads Re-Occupation of Ancestral Land

Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:13 pm | Survival International

Guarani Indians have carried out a courageous ‘retomada’ (re-occupation) of the sugar cane plantation that has taken over their ancestral land. The group is led by a female chief who has seen her husband and three of her children die on the ... More >>

Pakistan: Minimize Sexual Violence Against Women

Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission

Pakistan: Strict Yet Victim-friendly Legal Mechanisms Are Required to Minimize Sexual Violence Against Women and Children More >>

Power Station threatened with closure due to fuel shortage

Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:04 pm | Gaza Energy and Natural Resources Authority

Greenpeace Climbers Arrested, Shots Fired In Russian Arctic

Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Pechora Sea, September 18, 2013 - Two Greenpeace International activists have been arrested after climbing a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic, during a peaceful protest that has prompted a disproportionate use of force by the Russian Coast Guard. More >>

ANC Thuggery Undermines the Rule of Law Once Again

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:56 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo

Yesterday we occupied the centre of Durban in our thousands. After our march some of us went to court, once again, for the Cato Crest matter. We have won a number of orders from the High Court interdicting the eThekwini Municipality from illegally ... More >>

ITUC Supports Journalists Strike in Tunisia

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:51 pm | International Trade Union Confederation

Brussels, 16 September 2013 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has joined with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in giving its full support to a national strike of Journalists in Tunisia, which starts tomorrow (Tuesday). More >>

Muslim Brotherhood Statement On Egypt Putschists Extending S

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:45 pm | Muslim Brotherhood

The Brotherhood condemns the state of emergency imposed in Egypt and the extension announced by the military-installed puppet regime as constrains on citizens’ freedom. Egyptians erupted in the blessed January 25 (2011) Revolution to eliminate many evils, ... More >>

A Month Passes Since Rabaa and Nahda Massacres

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:41 pm | Anti-Coup Pro-Legitimacy National Alliance

Cairo – September 16, 2013: A month after their security apparatus massacred peaceful protesters in a violent and vengeful crackdown on Rabaa and Al-Nahda vigils, the loathsome putschists are still a load on the shoulders of all Egyptians. More >>

Gaza Health Ministry Faces Real Disaster InTightened Siege

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:28 pm | Gaza Ministry of Interior and National Security

Palestinian Minister of Health Dr Mofeed Mokhalalati urges the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli Occupation so that it lifts the illegal siege imposed on Gaza Strip, and permits the access of medicines, medical supplies, and basic construction ... More >>

Fuel Shortage: Environmental Disaster Looms in Gaza

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:25 pm | Gaza Ministry of Interior and National Security

The Palestinian government warned of an environmental disaster in Gaza due to the siege, as untreated sewage water is pumped into the sea, which increases the problem of pollution and its impact on the environmental situation and human health. More >>

Gaza In Crisis Following Rafah, Tunnel Closures

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:20 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman

The Gaza Strip is facing a humanitarian crisis, with such a critical shortage of gasoline that police have been ordered to transport students and workers to schools, universities and workplaces, the Ministry of the Interior has reported. More >>

Japan NZ Forum To Focus On TPP and Growth Partnership

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:14 pm | NZIBF

The fourth Japan New Zealand Partnership Forum will be held in Tokyo on 26 September 2013, the NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) announced today. More >>

ICTJ Concerned By Retroactive Sentencing In Bangladesh

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:05 pm | International Center for Transitional Justice

NEW YORK, September 19, 2013 — The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) has expressed concern over the Bangladesh Supreme Court’s sentencing to death yesterday of Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior leader in Bangladesh’s largest ... More >>

The Epic Struggle of A Trapped Student

Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:01 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi

Last night, I had a dream that I was running, running and running, and I kept running till I glanced an emergency exit. Though I cannot remember whether I made my way out, I woke up feeling breathless. Strangled. Suffocated. I cannot even find a better ... More >>

UFree Denounces Egyptian Military Court Sentences

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:54 pm | UFree Network

UFree Network strongly condemns the Egyptian military court sentences against Palestinian fishermen who were given a one-year prison sentence and a penalty fine for fishing in Egyptian waters near the Gaza Strip. More >>

Greenpeace Activists Being Held Without Charge By Russia

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:48 pm | Greenpeace International

Pechora Sea, September 19, 2013 - Greenpeace International continues to seek the release of activists Sini Saarela (Finland) and Marco Weber (Switzerland) who are being held by the Russian Coast Guard following a peaceful protest against Gazprom’s ... More >>

West Papuans Arrested for Organising Welcoming Procession

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:42 pm | Freedom Flotilla

Four West Papuan community leaders were arrested on Wednesday the 18th of September, 2013 after sending a letter to the Biak police station informing them of a procession planned to welcome the sacred water and ashes delivered by the Freedom Flotilla, ... More >>

Rights Expert Urges UN To Adopt Decisive Peace-Making Role

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:41 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly To Adopt a More Decisive Role In Peace-Making More >>

Niger/Mali: Training Health Professionals In War Surgery

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:33 pm | International Committee of the Red Cross

Niamey/Bamako (ICRC) – Some 30 health practitioners from Niger and Mali will familiarize themselves with techniques specific to war surgery at a workshop organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Niamey from 16 to 18 September. More >>

Australia Should Maintain Good Relations with Indonesia

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:29 pm | Indonesia Institute

Despite extensive media reports that relations between Indonesia and Australia are already under pressure following the recent comments made by Indonesia's foreign minister - about aspects of Mr Abbott's 'turn-back-the-boats' policy - the outlook ... More >>

Pacific Voice For Global Development Agenda Beyond 2014

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:20 pm | United Nations Population Fund Pacific

September 14, 2013 - From Monday, September 16 to Friday September 20, some 300 representatives of 40 countries will come together for the 6th Asian and Pacific Population Conference in Bangkok, Thailand during which participants will review ... More >>

Fiji Woman Appointed General Secretary Of People’s Assembly

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:10 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement

A Fijian women’s human rights defender has been appointed to head the People’s General Assembly, a historic gathering of civil society representatives from around the globe. While inside the official United Nations building Virisila Buadromo may ... More >>

Students Protest Against Adelaide Uni Ties With Taib

Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:03 pm | Bruno Manser Fund

BMF would like to draw your attention to a recent campaign that has been launched by students at Adelaide University who are calling for the Taib Mahmud Court at their University to be changed name. Today, the students have held a rally to get the attention ... More >>

Call For the Release of 7 Camp Ashraf Hostages

Friday, 20 September 2013, 1:57 pm | British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom

Lord Carlile CBE QC, a leading UK lawyer and Parliamentarian, has called on the UK Government and the international community to demand the release of Iranian opposition hostages seized last week by Iraqi special forces acting at the request of the Iranian ... More >>

NIWA Scientists Head to Antarctica

Friday, 20 September 2013, 1:54 pm | NIWA

More than a dozen NIWA scientists are heading to Antarctica in the next couple of months as the crucial weather window opens for the summer season of research above, on and under the ice. More >>

Health Ministry in Gaza faces a real disaster

Friday, 20 September 2013, 10:09 am | Gaza Interior Ministry

Gaza: Tunnels destroyed and the Rafah Crossing closed

Friday, 20 September 2013, 9:50 am | Gaza Ministry of Interior and National Security

Gaza's residents turn off most of their lights in order to preserve electricity for use by critical services More >>

Elections in Sri Lanka an Opportunity for Reconciliation

Friday, 20 September 2013, 9:37 am | UN News

The forthcoming provincial elections in Sri Lanka are an important opportunity for reconciliation in the country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling on all parties to take part in the electoral process in a peaceful manner. More >>

UN & African Union Sign Plan to Protect Children in Conflict

Friday, 20 September 2013, 9:36 am | UN News

The United Nations and the African Union have agreed to strengthen protection of conflict-affected children in Africa, where despite progress, grave child rights violations including under-age recruitment, continue. More >>

Fuel Shortage: Environmental Disaster Looms in Gaza

Thursday, 19 September 2013, 2:33 pm | Gaza Ministry of Interior and National Security

New Insights Into the Consumers Behind Rhino Poaching

Thursday, 19 September 2013, 2:32 pm | Traffic International

The use of rhino horn as a symbol of status among wealthy urban Vietnamese has been identified as a major driver of the current rhino poaching crisis. Findings from consumer research – concluded earlier this year in Viet Nam - has added significantly ... More >>