Archivo etiqueta «Derechos Humanos»
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 15/03/06):
Ambitious plans to reform the United Nations in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal and the Iraq schism have yet to amount to much. But one issue on which world leaders attending last September’s summit in New York did agree was the need to strengthen UN monitoring, protection and enforcement of universal standards of human rights.Now even that limited consensus is at risk as open diplomatic warfare between the Bush administration and a majority of member states threatens to sink proposals to create a new UN Human Rights Council. If a compromise deal backed … Seguir leyendo
By Victoria Brittain, co-author, with Moazzam Begg, of ‘Enemy Combatant’ (THE GUARDIAN, 14/03/06):
The coincidental release of Michael Winterbottom’s prize-winning film about the young men from Tipton, Road to Guantánamo, and Moazzam Begg’s book, Enemy Combatant, predictably brought the US and British spin machines into full swing last week – so that anyone reading the book or seeing the film would have got the idea that these men may have been badly treated, but they certainly were not innocent.Last week the Daily Telegraph flagged an exclusive on its front page. “Begg told FBI he trained with al-Qaeda,” was the … Seguir leyendo
Por Esteban Ibarra, presidente del Movimiento contra la Intolerancia y miembro del Observatorio del Racismo en el Deporte (EL PAÍS, 12/03/06):
Los gritos e insultos racistas dirigidos a Samuel Eto’o en la Romareda confirman la continuidad de episodios de racismo en el fútbol y también de sus protagonistas: los grupos neofascistas que anidan en los fondos ultras. Lo demuestran las infamias persistentes surgidas de gargantas fanáticas ubicadas en torno a la zona ultra del Ligallo, que durante todo el partido fueron acompañadas de gestos obscenos haciendo saludos nazis. Según datos policiales, antes de comenzar el partido hubo diversas agresiones … Seguir leyendo
Por Jaime Lissavetzky, secretario de Estado para el Deporte (EL PAÍS, 12/03/06):
El fútbol es el deporte más popular en nuestro país, el que cuenta con más seguidores y el que más emoción y pasiones suscita. La popularidad y aceptación que tiene el fútbol confieren a este deporte una dimensión de espejo social en el que mirarnos, pero que también muestra al mundo cómo somos y nos comportamos, qué valores sociales compartimos, cuál es nuestra cultura deportiva y qué reflejo tiene todo ello en las gradas de un estadio cuando se enfrentan dos equipos rivales. España y el resto … Seguir leyendo
By Ahdaf Soueif, his latest book is Mezzaterra, Fragments from the Common Ground (THE GUARDIAN, 09/03/06):
The story of Maajid Nawaz, Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst, the three British Muslims who travelled to Egypt with their families, their detention there, their trial and their release now, almost four years later, encapsulates several elements in the “east-west” or “war on terror” story. Media coverage in the UK has focused on the men’s Britishness and whether the British government did enough to help them. As usual, events outside the western hemisphere are presented as though in a void. So here’s a … Seguir leyendo
By Jimmy Carter, Óscar Arias, Kim Dae Jung, Shirin Ebadi and Desmon Tutu. They are Nobel Peace Prize laureates (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/03/06):
In the global struggle for the advancement of human rights, the United Nations has reached a defining moment. The president of the General Assembly, Jan Eliasson of Sweden, has led five months of negotiations to develop a proposal to reform the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Although the commission has accomplished many things, including the adoption of human rights standards, treaties and fact-finding mechanisms that measure the performance of governments, it … Seguir leyendo
By Eric Umansky. He writes the Today’s Papers column for Slate (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/03/06):
Walid al-Qadasi should have been thrilled he was finally leaving Guantanamo Bay. Al-Qadasi, a Yemeni man in his mid-twenties, had been held at the prison about two years. He was first arrested in late 2001 by Iranian authorities who, al-Qadasi later recalled, “sold” him to U.S.-allied Afghan forces for a bounty. With little evidence against him — and no tribunal having established his guilt or innocence — al-Qadasi was sent home from Guantanamo in April 2004.
In an affidavit taken by the Center for … Seguir leyendo
By Anthony Lagouranis. Anthony Lagouranis served in the Army from May 2001 to July 2005 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/02/06):
I have never met Sgt. Santos Cardona or Sgt. Michael Smith, but we share similar experiences. In late 2003 and early 2004, both men used their dogs to intimidate Iraqi prisoners during interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison. They maintain that they were following legal orders. Now they both face impending court-martial.
From January 2004 to January 2005, I served in various places in Iraq (including Abu Ghraib) as an Army interrogator. Following orders that I believed were legal, I … Seguir leyendo
Informe de Amnesty International (23/02/06). Resumen:
Las elecciones generales de 1997 llevaron de nuevo al poder a los laboristas tras 18 años de gobierno conservador en el Reino Unido. Con Tony Blair como primer ministro, el gobierno laborista, fiel a sus promesas electorales de 1997, publicó una propuesta de ley, titulada "Traer los derechos a casa" ("Bringing Rights Home"), que presagió la trascendental promulgación de la Ley de Derechos Humanos de 1998, con la que quedaron incorporados en la legislación británica la mayoría de los derechos proclamados en el Convenio Europeo para la Protección de los Derechos Humanos … Seguir leyendo
By Terry Davis, the secretary general of the Council of Europe (THE GUARDIAN, 22/02/06):Let us, for the sake of argument, set aside geography and imagine that a business jet, known to be owned by a Colombian drug baron, regularly stops to refuel at European airports on its way to a destination in the US. When this is discovered by the press, the authorities of the European countries concerned shrug off criticism by arguing that these were only technical stops and that they had no way of knowing the plane was not carrying a group of Medellín women heading for … Seguir leyendo
Francesca Klug is a professorial research fellow at the LSE (THE GUARDIAN, 18/02/06):
I have a cartoon at home that I think might win a prize. It shows a hook-nosed man, hands dripping with blood and the world in his grasp. The caption is “Le Peril Juif”. It might do well in the Holocaust cartoon competition, launched by Iran’s bestselling newspaper, Hamshahri.
This sinister-looking caricature bears a striking resemblance to some of the images in the cartoons published in September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. While some seem benign, others appear designed to stereotype Muslims as (literally) sabre-rattling terrorists. Any … Seguir leyendo
By Ben Macintyre (THE TIMES, 10/02/06):
TORTURE IS MORALLY abhorrent, self-perpetuating, and illegal. But the most important argument against torture is that it doesn’t work. To illustrate this let me escort you, not to the cells of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, but to a London basement in 1942, where a British MI5 officer wearing a monocle is extracting a confession from a Nazi spy.
Colonel Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens was the commander of the wartime spy prison and interrogation centre codenamed Camp 020, an ugly Victorian mansion surrounded by barbed wire on the edge of Ham Common. In the course … Seguir leyendo
Philip Leach, director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (THE GUARDIAN, 09/02/06):
It is refreshing to hear of a European head of state challenging another over domestic human rights issues. When German chancellor Angela Merkel tackled Russia’s president Vladimir Putin over Chechnya and new legislation restricting the work of NGOs in Russia, the Guardian contrasted her forthright position with that of her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, who was said to have “refrained from saying anything critical to Mr Putin” (Merkel challenges Putin on human rights, January 17).
Such reluctance to criticise was a theme of a report last December … Seguir leyendo
Barbara A. Reynolds is an ordained minister, an adjunct professor at the Howard University School of Divinity and author of several books, including, “No I Won’t Shut Up,” with a foreword by Mrs. King (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/02/06):
It was, of course, accurate to label Coretta Scott King the wife or widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But in her own eyes, the label obscured who she really was.
Before she met her husband, she had traveled internationally, crusading for world peace, arriving at that juncture before Dr. King did. During the marriage, she saw herself as a partner, … Seguir leyendo
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 01/02/06):
The passing of Coretta Scott King, the formidable “first lady” of the civil rights movement, makes it impossible to ignore a difficult fact: The era in which the phrase “black leadership” had real meaning is long gone.
Mrs. King wore the mantle of first lady with great steadfastness and grace for nearly four decades. She died yesterday at 78, never having fully recovered from the stroke she suffered last year, and she will be eulogized throughout the land with great and solemn dignity. She deserves those honors. History compelled her to live a … Seguir leyendo