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Dec 22 2009 12:09PM
Waste caused public health emergency

The BBC has given an apology on Newsnight for one aspect of its reporting on Trafigura. The BBC withdrew the claim that waste dumped by Trafigura in west Africa caused deaths and serious injuries. If you saw the apology on the...

Dec 22 2009 12:06PM
Civilians denied aid

The medical aid charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) reports that civilians in various parts of the world have been denied access to aid , making humanitarian crises worse in 2009. They say that trapped civilians in Sri Lanka...

Dec 22 2009 12:05PM
UN report on massacre in Guinea

The Guardian reports today that UN investigators have looked into the massacre at the national football stadium in Guinea on 28 September 2009. Soldiers sealed the exits of the stadium and then attacked the many thousands who had...

Dec 22 2009 11:21AM
Ayatollah Montazeri, father of Iran's human rights passed away

"Humans are free and independent to decide for themselves" These are the final words of Ayatollah Montazeri who wrote in a letter, which as a grand ayatollah can be accepted as a final verdict on Islam and human rights.As a grand...

Dec 21 2009 4:41PM
The Price of Human Rights - Cambodia ignores refugee convention and sends Uighur asylum seekers to uncertain fate in China

Cambodia today deported 22 Uighurs who had fled China to escape persecution, returning them, at Beijing’s behest, to an uncertain fate. It’s a sickening development. Despite the notoriety of the Chinese authorities when it comes to...