http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=69&catid=281News Feed for - Human-rightshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96269304&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T04:17:00The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously approved Robert King as special envoy for North Korean human rights. King will start his official duties as a member of the State Department's North Korea policy Digital Chosunhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96180864&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T00:06:00Rwanda is set to succeed in its bid to join the Commonwealth this week despite serious concerns over its human rights record, according to a senior source close to the negotiations. A summit of Commonwealth The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96269955&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T04:18:00- Climate change is putting increasing demands on the humanitarian community, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Wednesday at its first-ever global Media Newswirehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96269716&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T04:14:00Canadians Concerned about Sri Lanka (CCSL) came to the steps of the Sri Lankan Consulate in Toronto Saturday to express their deep concern to the government of Sri Lanka, to the government of Canada and Rabble.cahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96267062&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T02:48:00Australia will provide $15 million in humanitarian assistance for the Burmese people still suffering from the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis which struck Burma in May 2008. Cyclone Nargis killed Australian Governmenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96262574&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T00:57:00WASHINGTON: The human rights group Amnesty International has urged US President Barack Obama to take up the issue of human rights abuses in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), during his meeting with Indian Prime Daily Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96070782&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T02:25:00The UN General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran yesterday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged. Tehran's Niagara Falls Reviewhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96147260&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T01:02:00KIGALI (Reuters) - Survivor groups from Rwanda's 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the U.N. tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court's recent acquittals of two genocide suspects. Upstatetoday.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96034432&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-23T01:36:00NKorea rights 33/40 // OS configuration OS_url OS_sitepage OS_listpos OS_query OS_target //end of configuration OS_version OS_rn OS_rns OS_rn new String OS_rns OS_rn.substring (2, fction OS_NORML(pos) ABC 3340http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96152152&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T05:09:00Obama 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 Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96212841&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T08:15:00Reporting 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 Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96246355&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T20:37:00Amb. Dore Gold and Judge Richard Goldstone discussed the UN Report on war crimes in Gaza Brandeis University, Thurs., Nov. 5 at 5 p.m., EST Click here to view the visual presentation that Amb. Gold used JCPA.orghttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96217194&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T07:23:00THE 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 Daily News TSNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96140484&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T06:03:00'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 UN Observerhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96201061&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T02:34:00Set_Cookie( 'test', 'none', '', '/', '', '' (Get_Cookie( 'test')) else _uacct sfHover hidePopUp(which) _cfscriptLocation makeRequest(url) sendtofriend(el) (!emailCheck('emailFriendfrom', forname)) (!alphaCheck('Friendfrom', TradingMarketshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96198450&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T01:38:00With 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, NYC Independent Media Centerhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96198121&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T01:32:00Confronting 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 NYC Independent Media Centerhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96129118&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T23:51:00Tripoli : 22. 11. 2009 - JANA Secretary of GPC for Utilities met this evening in Tripoli with Vietnamese Minister of Construction currently visiting Jamahiriya . Bilateral relations and means to promote Jamahiriya News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96170846&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-21T17:44:00BEIJING -- On his trip to China last week, President Obama negotiated with our government on climate change and other issues such as economic recovery, currency regulation and denuclearization. He noted Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96255658&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T23:09:00Global Humanitarian Award this evening for his successful efforts to raise awareness about climate change. The award was inspired by Applied Materials Chairman Emeritus James Morgans belief that technology Elites TVhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96188164&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T23:03:00The deputy Labour leader says he was not worth the £185,000 he was promised.Mail Online UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96144393&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-21T06:52:00James M. Wilson Jr., 91, a career diplomat who established the State Department's human rights program and became its first coordinator, died Nov. 15 at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96254065&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T22:38:00(McClatchy-Tribune Informa) When you are a drug user and alcoholic, as Kitty Coleman was for 27 of her 41 years, you hang out in dark places that smell of unwashed people, and the food is junk -- convenience Individual.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96253270&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T22:25:00Normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba was widely seen as exactly the kind of high-value, low-hanging fruit that would be ideal for a president elected under the banner of 'change.' But a scathing Human Rights Watchhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96253264&Channel_ID=69&Category_ID=2812009-11-22T22:25:00Prosecutors, defense counsel, a military judge, several journalists and a handful of non-governmental organization observers like myself convened at Guantanamo Bay this week for what was to be the first Human Rights Watch