Czech politicians discuss human rights violations at San Jose ICDC forum
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International forum of ICDC in Costa Rica, photo: Freddy Valverde Deputy-Chairman of the Czech Senate Jan Ruml and lower house Deputy Petr Bratsky, represented the Czech Republic as they joined influential ...
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TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb. 13 -- A leading U.S. human rights group said Wednesday that Mexico's national human rights commission routinely avoids investigating alleged abuses committed by the military and "has helped create an atmosphere of distrust that hinders human rights progress."
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The former president hosts an international conference in Prague on promoting democracy in Cuba.
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Polish and Czech leaders are to discuss a US missile shield, with Warsaw voicing concerns.
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PRAGUE The former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and about 100 other international figures have signed a petition accusing President Vladimir Putin of Russia of using the Beslan hostage drama to undermine democracy.
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North Korea continues to violate human rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.
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Video clips on YouTube of blunders,  blushes and stammers by Croatia&#39;s politicians have reignited  pre-election hostilities between the ruling HDZ party and the  opposition Social Democrats (SDP).
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Human rights defenders face arrest and torture in China, and the European Union should raise the issue at a summit with Beijing's leaders this week, Amnesty International said in a new report Monday.
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A meeting in the east of the country - power base of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - is to discuss autonomy. Mr Yanukovych&#39;s rival for the presidency, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, says this threatens the future of Ukraine.
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Human rights campaigners outraged at Foreign Office minister Kim Howells' visit to Colombia
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Mexican soldiers tortured, raped and murdered civilians last year while fighting a war across the country against violent drug gangs, the nation's top human rights official told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, international law experts and human rights activists gathered in Belgrade on Friday to review Serbia's shortcomings in dealing with war crimes committed during ...
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The Czech Romany Parliament association wants to put pressure on Vladimir Spidla, the Czech Republic's European Commissioner-designate, not to add government human rights commissioner Jan Jarab to his team in ...
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TRIPOLI, Libya (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin said he &quot;put the cards on the table&quot; about such issues as respecting human rights during two meetings Sunday with Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli.
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"Despots Masquerading as Democrats": "It is a sign of hope that even dictators have come to believe that the route to legitimacy runs by way of democratic credentials."  By failing to demand that offenders honor their citizens' civil and political rights and other requirements of true democracy, Western democracies risk undermining human rights everywhere, the international ... via Kansas.com
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PRAGUE, Sep 20 (IPS) - Czech officials are investigating claims that Roma  women are still being forced to undergo sterilisation.
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North Korea continues to violate human  rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and  oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human  rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many  grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special  rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.