Buscador: Justícia

31/01/2008 Kansainvälisistä tuomareista ja syyttäjistä on pulaa, ja syytteitä on kertynyt niin paljon, ettei kansainvälisten standardien mukaisia oikeudenkäyntejä ole pystytty takaamaan, kertoo Amnesty Internationalin tuore raportti Kosovosta.

24/01/2008 UN Human Rights High Commissioner seemed to have rubbed some of the Sri Lankan nationalists the wrong way when she remarked in the wake of recent termination of ceasefire that human rights violators could face trial in international courts. People’s Liberation Front and other groups have taken umbrage at her comments and are fuming.

23/01/2008 Robert Badinter
Edizioni Spirali, 2007, pp. 318, €25

"In questo momento della mia lunga esistenza, volgendomi verso quella che fu una battaglia appassionata, misuro il cammino percorso verso l'abolizione universale" - scrive Robert Badinter che questo libro presenta i suoi scritti dal 1970 al 2006. Ministro della Giustizia francese nel 1981, appena insediato, presentò all’Assemblée Nationale un disegno di legge per l’abolizione della pena capitale: legge approvata il 18 ottobre di quell’anno mandando definitivamente in pensione la ghigliottina. Vicepresidente della Convenzione Europea dal 2003 al 2005, Badinter è considerato una delle personalità più autorevoli del mondo politico e intellettuale francese.

22/01/2008 As women suffer the horrific consequences of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one Congolese and one American women are helping to stem the violence and support its victims.

18/01/2008 Guantánamon vankileiri on toiminut kuusi vuotta. Leirille lennätetyistä sadoista vangeista tähän mennessä vain yksi on todettu oikeudessa syylliseksi ja tuomittu. Vankileirillä on edelleen lähes 400 kolmeakymmentä eri kansallisuutta edustavaa vankia.

17/01/2008 A new video-telecommunications system jointly set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the US government in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has enabled over 600 prisoners currently held by US forces to be in regular contact with their relatives.

15/01/2008 NEW YORK, Jan 14 (IPS) - As the world marked the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the first orange-jumpsuit-clad prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, human rights groups are attempting to focus public and congressional scrutiny on what some are calling "the other Gitmo."

11/01/2008 NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Human rights activists will lead rallies across the United States today to build pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to end the detention of foreign prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military camp.