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  • Toronto's Autorickshaw to Present Bhopal Remembered: Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster 1 Dec 2009 08:30 GMT
    ... money for the clinic, Autorickshaw has invited Amnesty International and The International Campaign for Justice ... dates in Ireland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and France. Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Lula Lounge ...

  • Minaret ban 'conflicts with human rights' 1 Dec 2009 07:30 GMT
    ... therefore breaches international treaties on human rights, Dutch foreign affairs minister Maxime Verhagen said on ... 'I hope this never happens in the Netherlands,' she said. Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders said ... would press for a similar ban in Holland. 'If the government is unwilling to hold ...

  • Burmese lawyers test the water at the ICC 1 Dec 2009 07:07 GMT
    ... at the World Forum at The Hague, Netherlands. According to Aung Htoo, chairperson of the ... of Serbian leader Slobadan Milosevic, said that human rights violations in Burma were comparable to Dafur, ...

  • Vatican and Muslims condemn Swiss minaret ban vote - BBC News 1 Dec 2009 05:37 GMT
    ... France Presse. In Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, anti-immigrant movements called on their own governments ... during the campaign, according to local media. Amnesty International said the vote violated freedom of religion ... supreme court or the European Court of Human Rights. The president of Zurich's Association of Muslim ...

  • Swiss minaret ban emboldens Europe's extremists 1 Dec 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... from the woodwork in places like the Netherlands to push for similar bans, and by ... said Geert Wilders, head of the far-right Dutch Freedom Party, which won the second-largest number of ...

  • International court to review Kosovo independence 1 Dec 2009 05:10 GMT
    ... be heard by the court in the Netherlands. Neither side has made public their planned ... self determination, which did not respect their human rights -- that you can not have this ...

  • Minarets opposed in Dutch too 1 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... THE HAGUE/PARIS — The head of the Netherlands far-right Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, called yesterday ... at the Council of Europe, a 47-member human rights watchdog that Switzerland currently chairs, issued a ... per cent. Not all reactions were critical. Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders, who leads ...

  • MICHAEL BURLEIGH: What lesson does the Swiss ban on minarets hold for Britain? 1 Dec 2009 02:52 GMT
    ... Cross and the Geneva Conventions against egregious human rights abuses, and its diplomats play an important ... Geert Wilder's Party for Freedom in the Netherlands - have already celebrated the Swiss decision ...

  • Concern over Swiss vote to ban building of minarets 1 Dec 2009 02:52 GMT
    ... construction of new minarets was criticised by human rights agencies but welcomed by European anti-immigrant political ... expressed by right-wing politicians in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. Concern was expressed by the ...

  • What lesson does the Swiss ban on minarets hold for Britain? 1 Dec 2009 01:44 GMT
    ... Cross and the Geneva Conventions against egregious human rights abuses, and its diplomats play an important ... Geert Wilder's Party for Freedom in the Netherlands - have already celebrated the Swiss decision ...

  • Swiss minaret ban raises eyebrows in Europe 30 Nov 2009 21:42 GMT
    ... minister also said the European Court of Human Rights could strike down the Sunday vote, which ... sense, wisdom and universal values." In the Netherlands, Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders – a ...

  • Swiss ban on minarets draws global criticism 30 Nov 2009 21:16 GMT
    ... at the Council of Europe, a 47-member human rights watchdog that Switzerland currently chairs, issued a ... of 53%. Not all reactions were critical. Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders, who leads ... similar referendum to be held in the Netherlands. “What is possible in Switzerland should be ...

  • Is Continent's Land Up for Grabs? 30 Nov 2009 21:13 GMT
    ... (AGRA), told a science forum in the Netherlands in June. Such foreign land acquisitions, he ... threat to food security and other core human rights. "The stakes are huge," he told Africa ...

  • West Papua Flag Raising 4-30 pm Queen St 30 Nov 2009 21:11 GMT
    ... The flag will also be raised by human rights activists in Wellington outside Parliament (1 pm) ... Morning Star flag. Then Indonesia derailed the Dutch plans for decolonisation of the territory by ...

  • The power of a school lunch: From World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan 30 Nov 2009 19:56 GMT
    ... mission into the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands during the final days of World War ... dropping desperately-needed food supplies to the starving Dutch. One British pilot described how "children ran ... feeding in Austria during 1947. By 1948 UNICEF, with the help of CRS and others, ...


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