Latest Africa Human Rights News
- Indian-origin woman named UN rights commissioner 25 Jul 2008 18:08 GMT
... United States, 01:33 PM IST Indian-origin South African judge Navanethem Pillay, born in Durban to ... appointed the new UN High Commissioner of Human Rights. Pillay, 67, is to succeed Louise Arbour ...
- U.N. report cites 'lessons' from Sudan attack 25 Jul 2008 16:52 GMT
... U.N. report cites 'lessons' from Sudan attack An internal ... to make it appear as if the Zambian peacekeepers had done nothing wrong. The UNMIS ... ceasefire lies squarely with the parties themselves." Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that tens of ...
- US hails SA judge as rights chief 25 Jul 2008 16:51 GMT
... was the first non-white woman on South Africa's High Court The US has welcomed the ... as the next UN high commissioner for human rights. Zalmay Khalilzad, US ambassador to the UN, ...
- Religion, politics shape black views... 25 Jul 2008 16:46 GMT
... being framed in that way by certain African-American ministers.” Robinson, executive director of the National ... Cuc Vu, chief diversity officer for the Human Rights Campaign, said education therefore becomes essential to ...
- Religion, politics shape black views on gay issues 25 Jul 2008 16:46 GMT
... being framed in that way by certain African-American ministers.” Robinson, executive director of the National ... Cuc Vu, chief diversity officer for the Human Rights Campaign, said education therefore becomes essential to ...
- Indian-origin judge is new UN human rights chief 25 Jul 2008 16:14 GMT
... has been named the United Nations' new human rights chief, despite some initial opposition from the ... US. Pillay, 67, who is from South Africa, will succeed Louise Arbour of Canada who ...
- U.S. Expands Visa Program for Iraqi Allies 25 Jul 2008 15:16 GMT
... BAGHDAD — The American Embassy in Baghdad announced ... had to go to Jordan, Syria or Egypt. For many the trip was too expensive ... said Amelia Templeton, a refugee analyst at Human Rights First, an advocacy group based in New ...
- ยป UN calls upon SA judge 25 Jul 2008 15:15 GMT
... Pillay, the newly-appointed UN high commissioner for human rights, is the daughter of a bus driver ... non-white woman judge to sit in South Africa's highest court. Born in Durban in 1941 ...
- Warming is harder on minorities, report says 25 Jul 2008 14:19 GMT
... WASHINGTON African-Americans are more likely to be hurt by ... see it for what it is, a human rights issue on a dangerous collision course of ...
- SAfrican lawyer nominated as UN human rights chief 25 Jul 2008 14:16 GMT
... UNITED NATIONS - One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending ... the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights. Navanethem Pillay was formally put forward for ...
- A Distressing Record of Siding With the Bad Guys 25 Jul 2008 13:47 GMT
... THE South African government recently rejected a draft resolution of ... elections of June 27. Along with China, Libya, Russia and Vietnam, SA voted against the ... Burma that censured the junta over its human rights abuses and called for democratic reforms. This ...
- Demonising Hizbullah is a blunder 25 Jul 2008 12:45 GMT
... Last week, Israel and Hizbullah completed the first step ... dictatorship while propping up Saudi Arabia and Egypt, highlighting the countless human and civil rights ... west โ often civil society activists and human rights advocates โ but even in the eyes ...
- Matthias S Klein: Demonising Hizbullah is a blunder 25 Jul 2008 11:06 GMT
... Last week, Israel and Hizbullah completed the first step ... dictatorship while propping up Saudi Arabia and Egypt, highlighting the countless human and civil rights ... west โ often civil society activists and human rights advocates โ but even in the eyes ...
- United Nations: South African Judge Is Named for Human Rights Post 25 Jul 2008 11:06 GMT
... secretary general named a South African judge, Navanethem Pillay, as the next high ... Pillay, as the next high commissioner for human rights, an appointment expected to be approved Monday ...
- US backs Rwanda general, says needed in Darfur 25 Jul 2008 10:05 GMT
... as second in command of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force, the State Department said ... by Rwandan opposition groups and some Western human rights groups for it not to be renewed. ...
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