Archivo etiqueta «Derechos Humanos»
Por Ignacio Cembrero (EL PAÍS, 17/11/09):
Cuba tiene hoy en día 58 presos de conciencia. La Unión Europea no le brinda ningún tipo de cooperación y le aplicó incluso, en 2003, unas sanciones inspiradas en una posición común que la diplomacia española desea suavizar cuando, el año próximo, ejerza la presidencia europea. Esa posición estipula que la mejora de la relación con Europa está supeditada a los progresos de Cuba en materia de derechos humanos.
Túnez posee, según la ONG Human Rights Watch, cerca de 800 presos condenados, en su mayoría, por “acciones que responden a motivos políticos” consistentes en … Seguir leyendo
By Times Wang, a law student in New York. His family maintains a Web site about his father and his imprisonment at http://www.wangbingzhang.com (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/11/09):
Before starting college in 2008, my sister, Ti-Anna, spent a year in Washington advocating for our father, Wang Bingzhang, a political prisoner in China. She accomplished a great deal: She met influential politicians and policymakers and even had an op-ed published on this page in January. When Barack Obama won the presidency in a historic election last year, my sister and I celebrated. After voting for him in my first American election, … Seguir leyendo
By Robert Amsterdam, international defence lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky (THE GUARDIAN, 03/11/09):
For those who believe that the re-emergence of realpolitik in the Brown cabinet through the personage of Lord Mandelson is a regrettable turn for British politics, Foreign Secretary David Miliband‘s pending visit to Moscow will be a great test.
In recent weeks, Miliband has denounced those who he believes have not properly recognised historical facts and fundamental principles relating to episodes of genocide and gross violations of human rights.
His visit to Moscow this week, the first by a British minister since the still unresolved poisoning … Seguir leyendo
By Minky Worden, director of media at Human Rights Watch and the editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/10/09):
Corks popped this month in Copenhagen, with Rio de Janeiro voted as host city for the 2016 Summer Games and the convening of the XIII Olympic Congress, the first since 1994. Meanwhile, in a dark cell in Fuzhou, a coastal city on the East China Sea, Ji Sizun has no cause to celebrate. The 59-year-old legal activist was sentenced to three years in prison in January. His crime? He took … Seguir leyendo
By Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives (THE GUARDIAN, 21/10/09):
I recently met a leading representative of the foreign ministry of Israel who acknowledged to me “off the record” that Israel had made a tremendous blunder in refusing to cooperate with the UN Commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone, which investigated the charges of Israeli and Palestinian war crimes in the invasion of Gaza last December and January. Judge Goldstone, an internationally respected jurist whose Zionist credentials include being a member of the governing board of the Hebrew University … Seguir leyendo
By Harold Evans, reporter, columnist, broadcaster, author, editor of dailies and Sundays and, in the US, of a tabloid (THE GUARDIAN, 20/10/09):
Aren’t the British sickened by the moral confusions of their government? First, we have the weasel words to justify the unjustifiable release of the Lockerbie bomber. Now we have the sickening spectacle of Britain failing to stand by Israel, the only democracy with an independent judiciary in the entire region.
It was to be expected that the usual suspects of the risible UN human rights council would be eager to condemn Israel for war crimes in defending … Seguir leyendo
By Robert L. Bernstein, the former president and chief executive of Random House and the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/10/09):
As the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to … Seguir leyendo
Par Isil Karakas, juge à la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme élue au titre de la Turquie (LE MONDE, 15/10/09):
La Turquie, qui est membre du Conseil de l’Europe depuis 1949 et qui a ratifié la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme en 1954, connaît encore des difficultés à se conformer à cette dernière. 1 676 arrêts de violations ont été rendus par la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme et, à ce jour, 12 029 requêtes sont encore pendantes. Les violations sont souvent graves : elles concernent les atteintes à la vie, l’interdiction de la torture et … Seguir leyendo
By Corinne Dufka, senior researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Africa Division with specialized expertise in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea (THE GUARDIAN, 30/09/09):
Guineans were relieved when there was a bloodless coup last December after the death of the longtime president, Lansana Conté. Not only had the feared battle for succession among army factions been averted, but the coup leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, vowed to root out corruption and hold elections within 60 days. Better yet, he promised not to run. “I have never had the ambition of power,” he said at the … Seguir leyendo
By Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/09/09):
They came early in the morning, about seven o’clock. In Tehran on Sunday, June 21, at his 83-year-old mother’s home, agents of the Iranian government seized Maziar Bahari. As his mother looked on, Mr. Bahari — a 42-year-old Newsweek journalist and documentary filmmaker who has been accredited by the Iranian authorities for over a decade — was arrested and taken to Evin prison, where we believe he is being held in isolation. He has not been allowed to see a lawyer, nor has he been formally charged. … Seguir leyendo
By Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of the Moscow office at Human Rights Watch (THE GUARDIAN, 13/08/09):
On the day of the funeral of Natalya Estemirova (Natasha to her friends), a leading investigative researcher for Memorial human rights centre in Chechnya, her friends and colleagues gathered at the Memorial office in Grozny. “Who is next in line?” a sign said. All of us there were devastated by Estemirova’s brazen murder, following her abduction by unidentified men who appeared to be law enforcement officers, on 15 July.
Many women were crying, while the men stood there grimly, as if entranced. They … Seguir leyendo
Par Nicolas Vercken, responsable d’Oxfam France – Agir ici (LIBERATION, 12/08/09):
Les conventions de Genève, pierre angulaire du droit international humanitaire, ont 60 ans aujourd’hui. Elles interdisent toute violence délibérée à l’encontre des civils, prohibent également toute violence ayant un impact disproportionné sur les civils au regard des objectifs militaires légitimes des parties à un conflit et imposent aux Etats de garantir que les populations civiles ont effectivement accès aux biens et aux services dont elles ont besoin pour survivre. Elles constituent l’instrument juridique le plus reconnu et ratifié à travers le monde.
Ces conventions sont pourtant régulièrement violées dans … Seguir leyendo
By Roberta Cohen, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in humanitarian and human rights issues, and a board member of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (THE WASHINGTON POST, 31/07/09):
The now-defunct six-party talks in which the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China participated focused almost exclusively on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. But with a struggle for succession underway in Pyongyang and some of the country’s internal controls reportedly beginning to erode, it’s time to rethink the near-exclusion of human rights from the U.S.-North Korean dialogue.
The fear of raising human … Seguir leyendo
By Teng Biao, a former lawyer and a lecturer at the Chinese University of Politics and Law. He lives in Beijing (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/07/09):
On July 17, agents of Beijing’s Civil Affairs Bureau raided and closed the office of the Open Constitution Initiative, a local nongovernmental organization. This center had been the primary meeting place for China’s nascent movement of “rights lawyers,” in which I have been an active participant. There are not too many of us. China has 140,000 lawyers but only a few dozen lawyers who focus on citizens’ rights.
Our work is frustrating and … Seguir leyendo
Par André Glucksmann, philosophe (LE MONDE, 23/07/09):
Vous savez tout. Depuis longtemps. Il n’y a aucun mystère. Natalia Estemirova a été supprimée parce qu’elle combattait le mensonge et l’obscurité d’Etat, parce qu’elle parlait trop, parce qu’elle enquêtait trop précisément, parce qu’elle mettait en cause les commanditaires des crimes quotidiens en Tchétchénie, le dictateur Kadyrov, les services secrets de l’armée russe, les diverses mafias lâchées la bride sur le cou, et leurs patrons au Kremlin. Les enlèvements extrajudiciaires exécutés par des hommes cagoulés, les maisons des civils incendiées en “punition”, avec parfois leurs habitants bloqués sciemment à l’intérieur, les prises … Seguir leyendo