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Jan 22 2010 3:40PM
Haiti: from injustice to catastrophe

Paige Wilhite Jennings, who used to be a researcher on Haiti for Amnesty and a former UN human rights observer there, contacted me this week. She is now settled in Northern Ireland, but the tragic events in Haiti moved her to write...

Jan 22 2010 12:35PM
Guantánamo: where will it end, where will it end?

As I was saying the other day , Obama’s promise to close Guantánamo within a year falls due, so to speak, today. It hasn’t happened. Instead, in a pale reflection of what was promised, we’ve seen just 46 of 242 prisoners transferred...

Jan 22 2010 11:56AM
China Human Rights Briefing  January 21, 2010

Headlines Local Officials Question Relatives of Organizer Zou Chuanshun Court Rejects Request for an Appeal Hearing for Liu Xiaobo Jiangsu Court to Hear Female Lawyer’s Lawsuit against Family Planning Bureau Guangxi Police Harass...

Jan 21 2010 8:04PM
Culture of impunity allows trade unionists to be murdered in Guatemala

Tragically this month has seen the killing of a fourth trade union leader in Guatemala in three months. Following the murders of Victor Galvez in November and Miguel Chacaj Jax and Pedro Ramirez de la Cruz in December, Evelinda Ramirez...

Jan 21 2010 7:59PM
Trade unionist murdered in El Salvador

El Salvador remains a highly dangerous place to be a trade unionist. Following pressure to bring its national laws into line with International Labour Organisation (ILO) core labour standards so that it could benefit from preferential...