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  • Church Reiterates Human Rights As Fundamental To Peace And Order 22 Nov 2009 04:36 GMT
    ... TIMOR LESTE Church Reiterates Human Rights As Fundamental To Peace And Order December ... million people are Catholics. Though the former Portuguese colony has sizable offshore oil and gas ...

  • Woman faces jail for complaining about Portuguese lawyer 29 Nov 2009 17:51 GMT
    ... A south-west London woman is facing criminal charges in Portugal after making a complaint about a lawyer in the Algarve, human rights campaigners have said. Serena Wylde, 58, from Putney, could be jailed for up to ...

  • Mass. Alliance of Portuguese Speakers to commemorate World AIDS Day 30 Nov 2009 21:12 GMT
    ... Mass. Alliance of Portuguese Speakers to commemorate World AIDS Day Posted ... year's global theme is “Universal Access and Human Rights.” On the evening of Thursday, Dec. 3, ...

  • Briton could face jail in Portugal 29 Nov 2009 18:50 GMT
    ... A British woman is facing criminal charges in Portugal after making a complaint about a lawyer in the Algarve, human rights campaigners have said. Serena Wylde, 58 and from Putney, could be jailed for up ...

  • Eq. Guinea vote to reinstall leader denying graft 29 Nov 2009 09:52 GMT
    ... car window, following the end of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Equatorial Guinea, a violent land of coups, ... and subsequently collapsed. Despite all that, the human rights group Global Witness last week published documents ...

  • Difference remains on Honduran political crisis at Ibero-American Summit 1 Dec 2009 07:52 GMT
    ... remained as Ibero-American leaders met in Estorial, Portugal, on Monday. Foreign ministers of these countries failed ... was a coup and there have been human rights violations," said Patricia Licona, Honduran vice foreign ...

  • Difference remains on Honduran political crisis 1 Dec 2009 07:57 GMT
    ... during the XIX Ibero-American summit in Estoril, Portugal, Nov. 30, 2009. Oscar Arias, the main mediator ... was a coup and there have been human rights violations," said Patricia Licona, Honduran vice foreign ...

  • Honduran vote held amid repression, mass abstention 1 Dec 2009 07:24 GMT
    ... and police have raided organizations’ headquarters,” the human rights organization Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees ... The majority of the governments meeting in Portugal Monday at the Iberia-America summit, which included Spain, ...

  • Eq. Guinea Leader Expected to Win Near 100 Percent 27 Nov 2009 17:51 GMT
    ... car window, following the end of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Equatorial Guinea, a violent land of coups, ... a game," said Dr. Wenceslao Mansogo Alo, human rights representative of the main opposition Convergence for ...

  • The Commonwealth: Wider still and weaker? 1 Dec 2009 01:42 GMT
    ... Nov 26th 2009 | PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD From An ... ex-British territories was broken in 1995, when ex-Portuguese Mozambique gained entry. Welcoming a French-speaking African ... bite, as a promoter of democracy and human rights, or else it might as well shut ...

  • Former Militia Leader Admits Killing Two Nuns And Priest In 1999 22 Nov 2009 04:36 GMT
    ... TIMOR LESTE Former Militia Leader Admits Killing Two Nuns ... set up in August 2005 to investigate human rights violations by Indonesia and its armed forces ... in independent East Timor (Timor Leste in Portuguese) for his role in the violence. He ...

  • Rwanda accepted into Commonwealth only 15 years after genocide 30 Nov 2009 00:51 GMT
    ... THE UK Government yesterday welcomed Rwanda as the newest member ... rule of law, good governance, protection of human rights, and equality of opportunity and economic policies ... its key values, was Mozambique, the former Portuguese territory in Africa, which joined in 1995. ...

  • Rwanda accepted into Commonwealth only 15 years after genocide 30 Nov 2009 01:13 GMT
    ... THE UK Government yesterday welcomed Rwanda as the newest member ... rule of law, good governance, protection of human rights, and equality of opportunity and economic policies ... its key values, was Mozambique, the former Portuguese territory in Africa, which joined in 1995. ...

  • Climate talks success hinges on compo fund: Key 29 Nov 2009 22:00 GMT
    ... Crucial climate change talks in Copenhagen next month will ... the Commonwealth deals with members that abuse human rights or are not democratic. It has agreed ... a former Belgian colony. Mozambique, a former Portugese colony, is the only other member that was ...

  • Climate fund is 'crucial': Key 29 Nov 2009 23:33 GMT
    ... Crucial climate change talks in Copenhagen next month will ... the Commonwealth deals with members that abuse human rights or are not democratic. It has agreed ... a former Belgian colony. Mozambique, a former Portugese colony, is the only other member that was ...


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