<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Human-rights News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=12&amp;catid=281</link><description>News Feed for - Human-rights</description><item><title>Clear the air on human rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96152152&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T05:09:00</pubDate><description>Obama also spoke eloquently of American respect for free expression, rule of law and other human rights, declaring these to be 'universal' values. But at the same time, the president and Secretary of </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Rocket is fired at Afghan hotel housing foreign humanitarian workers</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96212841&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T08:15:00</pubDate><description>Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Suspected insurgents fired a rocket Saturday at a luxury hotel that had previously come under attack, injuring two people and rekindling fears that foreigners are being </description><source>Los Angeles Times</source></item><item><title>Human rights body hails Kikwete's decision on death sentences</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96217194&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T07:23:00</pubDate><description>THE Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance yesterday hailed President Jakaya Kikwete for commuting from death row to life imprisonment sentences for 75 prisoners. The commission chairman, retired </description><source>Daily News TSN</source></item><item><title>US: Lynne Stewart; Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96140484&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:03:00</pubDate><description>'Defiant to the end as she embraced supporters outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, Lynne F. Stewart, the radical lawyer known for defending unpopular clients, surrendered on Thursday to </description><source>UN Observer</source></item><item><title>Universal Access and Human Rights is the international theme for World AIDS Day </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96201061&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T02:34:00</pubDate><description>Set_Cookie( 'test', 'none', '', '/', '', '' (Get_Cookie( 'test')) else _uacct sfHover hidePopUp(which) _cfscriptLocation makeRequest(url) sendtofriend(el) (!emailCheck('emailFriendfrom', forname)) (!alphaCheck('Friendfrom', </description><source>TradingMarkets</source></item><item><title>Czech president signs Lisbon Treaty/EU Dirty Deal regarding human rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96198450&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:38:00</pubDate><description>With the EU guarantee to the Czech president, that the Czech State should not be exposed to property claims of expelled Germans after World War II, the EU not only implicitly consents with ethnic cleansings, </description><source>NYC Independent Media Center</source></item><item><title>Confronting Human Rights Abuses in US Prisons --an interview with Bret Grote from </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96198121&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:32:00</pubDate><description>Confronting Human Rights Abuses in US Prisons --an interview with Bret Grote of HRC/Fed Up! By Angola 3 News Bret Grote is an investigator and organizer with Human Rights Coalition/Fed Up!, a prisoner </description><source>NYC Independent Media Center</source></item><item><title>U.N. committee condemns N.Korea, Myanmar over rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96034432&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T16:08:00</pubDate><description>A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries, Reuters reported. The </description><source>Trend News Agency</source></item><item><title>Greece violates Human Rights (again)</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96233149&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T16:01:00</pubDate><description>Iranian political refugees are denied asylum  ??Hello! Let me introduce myself. I am Mahmeud, one of the Iranian political refugees that United Nations High Committee for the Refugees has already recognized </description><source>Indymedia Ireland</source></item><item><title>Genocide Survivors Threaten to Cut Ties With Tribunal</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96229189&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T14:48:00</pubDate><description>Kigali The president of Ibuka, an umbrella body of Genocide survivors' associations, has threatened to cease cooperation with the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for what </description><source>AllAfrica.com</source></item><item><title>Croatian Serb arrested for war crimes</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96228778&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T11:16:00</pubDate><description>Veritas Center Director Savo Štrbac said that Stanko Kovačevi?, suspected of having committed war crimes in Croatia, was arrested in Podgorica.  Police arrested Kovačevi? on Friday according to an </description><source>B92</source></item><item><title>Robert Newell Recieves Mercy Corps' Highest Honor - 2009 Humanitarian Hero Award</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96226942&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T10:48:00</pubDate><description>PORTLAND, OR - Portland-based Mercy Corps, one of the worlds leading relief and development organizations, recently recognized Davis Wright Tremaine partner Robert D. Newell with its highest honor, the </description><source>Mercy Corps</source></item><item><title>The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky., Tom Eblen column: Tom Eblen: Acres of prime land </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96187822&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T10:47:00</pubDate><description>It's astounding when you think about it: Lexington Mall has been dead or dying since before this year's high school graduates were born. It's even more astounding when you realize that the 30-acre site </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>CJ seeks report from IG in human rights cases F.P. Report</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96223971&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T09:23:00</pubDate><description>ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudary Saturday took suo moto notice on an appeal of parents whose daughter was allegedly killed by in-laws and the murder was shown as a suicide. The appeal </description><source>Frontier Post</source></item><item><title>UN Committee condemns Burma??s rights violations</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96132467&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T08:12:00</pubDate><description>Burma??s ??systematic and widespread?? human rights violations came in for severe condemnation by a special committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday,...  New Delhi (Mizzima) ?? </description><source>Mizzima News</source></item><item><title>Human Rights Day Protest: Asylum is a HUMAN RIGHT</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96218437&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T07:39:00</pubDate><description>Dec Gather: 12:30pm, Wesley Church (cnr Hay &amp; William Sts) March: through the city Supported by organisations including: Australian Tamil Congress, Refugee Rights Action Network, Revolutionary Socialist </description><source>Perth Indymedia.org</source></item><item><title>AI urges Obama to help end human rights abuses in IHK</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96213235&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:26:00</pubDate><description>Pakistan Times Jammu &amp;amp; Kashmir Desk SRINAGAR (IHK): Holding the Indian troops responsible for committing mass human rights violations with impunity in occupied Kashmir, global rights watchdog, the </description><source>Pakistan Times</source></item><item><title>Experts See Sustained Human Rights Movement Emerging in Iran</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96212984&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:19:00</pubDate><description>Panel calls for long-term U.S. engagement on human rights, nuclear issues Washington - To overcome a legacy of suspicion and mistrust, the United States should inaugurate a process of long-term, patient </description><source>Payvand Iran News</source></item><item><title>Rwanda genocide survivors may boycott UN court</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96147260&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:20:00</pubDate><description>KIGALI (Reuters) ?? Survivor groups from Rwanda's 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the UN tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court's recent acquittals of two genocide suspects. </description><source>Tehran Times</source></item><item><title>Anti-Iran resolution draws criticism from NAM, OIC</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96137115&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:21:00</pubDate><description>The Non-aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have condemned a UN anti-Iran resolution on human rights violation. In separate statements, NAM and OIC representatives </description><source>Tehran Times</source></item><item><title>UN General Assembly Condemns Post-Election Abuses in Iran</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96070782&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T06:22:00</pubDate><description>Source: In a vote of 74 in favor, 48 against and 59 abstentions, the General Assembly committee responsible for social, humanitarian and cultural affairs - known as the Third Committee -adopted the resolution </description><source>Payvand Iran News</source></item><item><title>Human Rights Society of Pakistan</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96211620&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T05:49:00</pubDate><description>President Asif Zardari should be impeached as he has violated the Constitution by becoming Director of Park Land Estates Company. This was demanded by Chairman Balochistan Chapter and Advocate Supreme </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Concern voiced over meagre budget for ministry of human rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96211329&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T05:45:00</pubDate><description>: Federal Minister for Human Rights, Syed Mumtaz Alam Gilani has expressed concern over Rs 5 crore 62 lakhs meagre budget for ministry of human rights and said that task before the minister is extremely </description><source>Business Recorder</source></item><item><title>Chinese Human Rights Attorney Arrested and His Wife Beaten in Front of Their Daughter</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96209698&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T05:24:00</pubDate><description>ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: assistnews@aol.com Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service BEIJING, CHINA (ANS) </description><source>Assist News Service</source></item><item><title>Al Qaeda's Civil Liberties Union</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96206978&amp;Channel_ID=12&amp;Category_ID=281</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T04:46:00</pubDate><description>A look at the other terrorists embraced by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's ACLU lawyers. | | | 'I'll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer.' That, according to former Director of Central </description><source>Weekly Standard</source></item></channel></rss>