Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Jennie Lorentsson UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29, 2010 (IPS) – Last year, at least 77 journalists were killed simply for doing their jobs. So far this year, the number is 17 – and rising – with three of them killed last Saturday. "I condemn these murders and insist that [...]
JORDAN: Women Make Progress But Honour Killings Persist
April 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mona Alami AMMAN, Apr 22 (IPS) – Earlier this month, a 33-year-old man was charged with hammering his wife to death and dumping her body on the highway leading to the Queen Alia International Airport. The husband confessed to murdering her ”to defend his honour,” as she was meeting [...]
RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: ‘Our Lives Are Cut Short at a Stroke’
March 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 13 (IPS) – ”This is a time of great tension because we know that at any moment, when we least expect it, our lives can be cut short at a stroke,” Tito Gálvez, a leader in the Resistance Front for the Defence of Natural [...]
RIGHTS: Guatemala, El Salvador Ordered to Heed Rulings
March 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Mar 12 (IPS) – Guatemala and El Salvador have a terrible record in terms of compliance with the recommendations and sentences handed down by the inter-American human rights bodies on cases involving appalling abuses like forced disappearance, torture and massacres committed during the armed conflicts [...]
MEDIA-NEPAL: Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
March 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Bhuwan Sharma – Asia Media Forum KATHMANDU, Mar 9 (IPS) – The climate of fear that has been growing in this Himalayan country since the murder of two media entrepreneurs and other attacks on journalists may well push them to turn to more self-censorship. While many are used to [...]
BANGLADESH: No End in Sight for Extrajudicial Killings
January 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Farid Ahmed DHAKA, Jan 21 (IPS) – Despite appeals by human rights organisation to the Bangladesh government to end extrajudicial killings in the country, no steps have been taken to bring the perpetrators to justice. ”The present government in its election manifesto promised to end extra-judicial killings, and the [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Gujarat State on Trial for Extrajudicial Killings
September 14, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Sep 14 (IPS) – When police in western Gujarat state claimed to have shot dead four members of the militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (Soldiers of God) group, otherwise known as LeT, including a 19-year-old girl student, on Jun. 15, 2004, in an ‘encounter,’ few believed them. For [...]
