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  • Resolution of Kashmir imperative for peace in South Asian Region 26 Dec 2009 15:33 GMT
    ... Kashmir dispute is imperative not only for South Asia but also for the world peace, Mukhtar said, ... peace, Mukhtar said, adding that the international human rights organizations are urged to send their representatives ...

  • Asia marks tsunami anniversary 26 Dec 2009 03:13 GMT
    ... People across Asia prepare to mark the anniversary of one ... which lost almost 170,000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Similar scenes are ... of people living along the island's coastline, Human Rights and Disaster Management minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said ...

  • Five years on Asia remembers Tsunami 26 Dec 2009 03:50 GMT
    ... People across Asia will pause on Saturday to remember the ... which lost almost 170,000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Prayers will be ... of people living along the island's coastline, Human Rights and Disaster Management minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said ...

  • Asia remembers Tsunami 26 Dec 2009 06:51 GMT
    ... People across Asia will pause Saturday to remember the day ... lost almost 170 000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Prayers will be ... of people living along the island's coastline, Human Rights and Disaster Management minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said ...

  • Can Ogaden become the Next UN Member State? 26 Dec 2009 12:10 GMT
    ... that have been vigorously denounced by leading Human Rights organizations like HRW and Amnesty International. As ... Arabia, Atropatene (falsely portrayed as ´Iran´), India, Central Asia, and China. This inhumanly racist system of historical ...

  • Uzbekistan: Pressure Grows on Opposition, Rights Activists 26 Dec 2009 02:34 GMT
    ... to these abuses. Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director (New York) - The Uzbek government is ... intensifying its crackdown on political opposition and human rights activists in advance of December 27, 2009, ...

  • Student group pans government snub 26 Dec 2009 16:10 GMT
    ... opportunities for youth and the development of human rights. However, Wu did not accept the invitation. ... increasing number of countries ¡X especially in East Asia ¡X forming trade blocs by signing free-trade agreements ...

  • The Tsunami remembered five years on 26 Dec 2009 09:50 GMT
    ... People across Asia will pause on Saturday to remember the ... which lost almost 170,000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Prayers will be ... of people living along the island's coastline, Human Rights and Disaster Management minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said ...

  • Indian diplomats lacking in aggression 26 Dec 2009 11:30 GMT
    ... conflicts and threatens peace and security. Unfortunately, South Asia and West Asia have witnessed it directly.” He ... spice their vitriol further with terms like human rights abuses, colonialism and right to self-determination. On ...

  • Dan Rivers: CNN's Asian front 23 Dec 2009 05:52 GMT
    ... and ever since, Rivers has passionately covered Asia, a region he calls fascinating. In 2008, he went ... navy. The story won him the prestigious Amnesty International Media award. Rivers was also back ...

  • Western Values Considered Perversion in Asian States 24 Dec 2009 13:52 GMT
    ... over a cliff in six countries of Asia and Africa. Such brutal punishment can be ... crimes can be especially severe in many Asian countries. Two homosexual men were buried alive in ... in an Afghan town in 1998. International human rights activists constantly accuse the Iranian government for ...

  • Asia remembers day ocean unleashed its fury 25 Dec 2009 22:02 GMT
    ... BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: People across Asia will pause on Saturday to remember the ... which lost almost 170,000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Prayers will be ... of people living along the island's coastline, Human Rights and Disaster Management minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said ...

  • Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo jailed for 11 years for subversion 25 Dec 2009 09:44 GMT
    ... Hong Kong protest over the sentence. The human rights group Amnesty International condemned the sentence, saying ... government," said Sam Zarifi, director of Amnesty's Asia-Pacific Programme. In earlier interviews with the BBC, ...

  • Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo jailed for subversion, his wife says no plans to appeal 25 Dec 2009 11:13 GMT
    ... Hong Kong protest over the sentence. The human rights group Amnesty International condemned the sentence, saying ... government," said Sam Zarifi, director of Amnesty's Asia-Pacific Programme, according to the same source. In ...

  • China secures gas from Turkmenistan: Who's the real winner? 23 Dec 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... shift to the benefit of three Central Asian countries and China and to the detriment of ... openly that Russia is losing ground in Central Asia because of political sensitivities. Despite years of ...


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