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By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) – U.N. investigators will seek the cooperation of North Korea as part of an inquiry into allegations of widespread human rights abuses in the country but won’t be deterred if Pyongyang refuses, the head of the investigating panel said on Thursday. Michael Kirby, an outspoken former justice of Australia’s top [...]
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U.N. team won’t be deterred if North Korea rebuffs inquiry into abuses
Posted by admin on May 9th, 2013
Student guest workers walk off the job at McDonald’s to protest abuses
Posted by admin on March 7th, 2013
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No Comments »U.N. investigator urges U.S. to pursue Bush-era abuses
Posted by admin on March 4th, 2013
GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations investigator called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA's Bush-era program of rendition and secret detention of terrorism suspects. Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, voiced concern that while President Barack Obama's administration [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: abuses, Bushera, investigator, pursue, U.N., U.S., Urges No Comments »Mexico court backs civil trials for military rights abuses
Posted by admin on August 22nd, 2012
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s top court ruled on Tuesday that military officials who committed crimes against civilians should be tried in civil courts, possibly clearing the way for sterner prosecutions against military misconduct in the country’s drug war. In an 8-2 decision, the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional a section of the military code of [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: abuses, Backs, Civil, Court, Mexico, Military, rights, Trials No Comments »Free Syrian Army bans abuses, party politics
Posted by admin on August 21st, 2012
AMMAN (Reuters) – The Free Syrian Army, which groups rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, issued new orders on Monday forbidding the torture and killing of prisoners following criticism by U.N. investigators. In what was described as a new internal charter, read out by a rebel commander in a video posted on the Internet, [...]
Free Syrian Army bans abuses, party politics
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2012
AMMAN (Reuters) – The Free Syrian Army, which groups rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, issued new orders on Monday forbidding the torture and killing of prisoners following criticism by U.N. investigators. In what was described as a new internal charter, read out by a rebel commander in a video posted on the Internet, [...]
Walmart abuses aren’t just a problem for workers. They’re a problem for the rule of law.
Posted by admin on July 30th, 2012
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Retail industry sells New York workers short with discrimination, low wages and schedule abuses
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: abuses, discrimination, industry, retail, schedule, sells, Short, wages, Workers, York No Comments »California’s carwashes face serious abuses and dangerous conditions
Posted by admin on September 6th, 2011
All around the country, workers are fighting for better pay and working conditions and for the simple right to be heard. Some of them are in unions, some of them are not, some are fighting to join unions, some are organizing but not under a traditional union model. Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: abuses, California's, carwashes, conditions, dangerous, face, serious No Comments »
