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UN committee urges Iran to respect rights obligations
The UN General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday approved a draft resolution imploring Iran to "respect fully its human rights obligations." The draft expressed concern about ongoing human rights violations in Iran despite previous resol (More) |
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UN rights panel condemns Myanmar crackdown
The UN General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday passed a draft resolution condemning the recent crackdown against political dissidents in Myanmar, calling on the country's military government to release all political prisoners and to cooperate (More) |
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UN death penalty moratorium a milestone in effort to eliminate capital punishment
Richard C. Dieter [Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center]: "The overwhelming approval of the resolution for a global moratorium on executions by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly is an important milestone (More) |
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UN rights envoy compiling report on Myanmar crackdown on dissidents
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said Friday that he obtained enough information from a five-day visit to Myanmar to determine the number of people killed during September's crackdown on pro-democracy protests . Pinh (More) |
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UN rights envoy ends visit to Myanmar
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told reporters at the end of a five-day visit to Myanmar Thursday that he was able to meet with a number of prominent political prisoners, but that his request to meet with opposition le (More) |
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Opponents argue against UN death penalty moratorium
Nations that support the use of the death penalty Wednesday criticized a UN draft resolution [text; JURIST report] to impose a world-wide moratorium on the capital punishment. The UN Human Rights Committee is scheduled to vote on the resolution Th (More) |
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Two leading Myanmar dissidents taken into custody: opposition groups
Officials in Myanmar arrested prominent labor rights activist Suu Suu Nway Tuesday, according to a representative for the National League for Democracy-Liberated Area Myanmar in Thailand. An official speaking on condition of anonymity told AP that (More) |
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Pakistan: Rights in the Absence of Law?
JURIST Guest Columnist Sadaf Aziz of the Lahore University of Management Sciences Faculty of Law in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the government's use of plainclothes thugs to brutally suppress dissent and protest in the present "emergency" m (More) |
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UN rights envoy visits Myanmar prison as investigation gets underway
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro began his investigation Monday into the Myanmar military government's crackdown on protesters by visiting Rangoon's Insein prison and a Buddhist monastery earlier raided by troops (More) |
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UN rights envoy visits Myanmar to probe protest crackdown
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro flew into Myanmar on Sunday to investigate the military government's crackdown on protesters going on since September. Pinheiro's trip comes three weeks after the junta in Myanmar (More) |
RFK assassin sentenced to death
On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Review a 1998 statement by Sirhan attorney Larry Teeter claiming Sirhan did not commit the crime. Sirhan was denied parole for the 12th time in March 2003.
