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La democracia auténtica es el culto al respeto de la dignidad humana,
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La NO violencia no es la simple ausencia de violencia.
- La NO violencia es tener la oportunidad de hacer daño y abstenerse de hacerlo.
- Es el reflejo del amor y la compasión humanas; es tan inseparable como la bondad de la compasión.
SS El Dalai Lama
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La violencia es el miedo a los ideales de los demás.
Mahatma Ghandi
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2008 Religious Freedom |
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2008 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom Oct.7 (DP.net).- US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, introduced to the public on September 19, this Annual Report covering the 12 months ended on 20 June 2008. This report has been issued annually for 10 years since the US Congress approved the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. The report is now available to the public on the Internet >>HERE and institutions may get free hard copies if requested. This work supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide. According to the Report, the IRF Act requires «the designation of countries that have "engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom" during the reporting period». Following its precise guidelines, the Report has designated Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as "Countries of Particular Concern". In addition, "countries where religious freedom is of significant concern" include Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Vietnam. >> Read more |
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Myanmar charter 'washes away' Suu Kyi victory: state media |
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Yangon (AFP), June 3.— A referendum approving a new military-backed constitution for Myanmar has "washed away" the victory claimed by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party in 1990 elections, state media said Tuesday. Her National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide 18 years ago, but the military never recognised the result and has kept the Nobel peace prize winner under house arrest for most of the years since then. The government mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar said Tuesday that the NLD's election mandate was "outdated" after the constitution was approved last month in a controversial referendum -- held while the impoverished nation was still reeling from the devastating effects of Cyclone Nargis.
"What will those who claimed themselves to have the mandate of the people according to the 1990 election results have to do? Will they have to throw the mandate down the drain?" the English-language paper asked. "Now, their hope was washed away along the current of the vote of the people," it added.
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Marxist Ethiopian ruler sentenced to death |
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May 29.- Ethiopia's Supreme Court sentenced the country's former ruler, Mengistu Haile Mariam, to death in absentia. His Marxist regime, known as the Derg, presided over a proclaimed “red terror” after the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mr Mengistu has lived in Zimbabwe since his own ousting from power in 1991. [ The Economist ] But Mengistu, who has lived a life of comfortable exile in Zimbabwe since he was driven from power in 1991, is unlikely to face punishment unless Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe loses a run-off election next month.
“Considering the prosecution’s appeal that a life sentence was not commensurate to the crimes committed by the Mengistu regime, the court decided to sentence him to death,” the court said in its ruling.
The prosecution in July appealed the life sentence handed to Mengistu in January 2007, when he was found guilty of genocide in absentia for the thousands of people killed during his 17-year reign. (via Reuters) [ read more ]
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Myanmar after the hurricane under the Maoist Junta's yoke |
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 [ In the image: The UN's Ban Ki-moon visits Myanmar as limited foreign pressure is applied to the junta ]
May 23.- On Thursday May 22nd the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, flew in to Myanmar to tour part of the country devastated by cyclone Nargis, three weeks ago, and perhaps to meet General Than Shwe, who heads the military regime that runs the country.
The millions of victims of the cyclone have now endured three weeks of misery while the regime has dragged its feet on letting in international aid. Many inhabitants of the Irrawaddy delta remain homeless and hungry, sheltering wherever they can from the continuing torrential rains. Lord Malloch Brown, a British minister, said after a visit this week to Yangon, the main city, that the regime seemed to be suffering from the “Panglossian” delusion that things were not so bad. Sean Keogh of Merlin, a British medical charity, who has spent nine days in the delta, describes the situation as “desolation absolute”.
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El Laberinto de los Derechos Humanos en Ginebra |
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El Consejo de Derechos Humanos, inaugurado en 2006 por Naciones Unidas, está formado por 47 Estados Miembros, elegidos por mayoría absoluta en la Asamblea General entre los candidatos presentados por cada región. Se eligen entre los grupos regionales a razón de 13 por África, 13 por Asia, 8 por América Latina y el Caribe, 7 por Europa Occidental y otros grupos, y 6 por Europa oriental. Permanecen en funciones por 3 años, pudiendo ser reelectos por dos periodos consecutivos. Además, a diferencia de la Comisión anterior a la que reemplaza, éstos podrán ser suspendidos si cometen abusos sistemáticos a los derechos humanos durante su mandato. Para esta "destitución" se requieren 2/3 de los votos.
Aunque la composición inicial incluía flagrantes violadores de los derechos humanos, el Consejo se ha ido recomponiendo, pero algunos todavía permanecen o han sido reemplazados por otros. Entre los países cuyo mandato cesaba en 2007, fueron reelegidos Sudáfrica, India, Indonesia, Filipinas y Países Bajos. Por otra parte, Argelia, Marruecos, Túnez, Argentina, Ecuador, Bahrein, Finlandia, Rep. Checa y Polonia fueron sustituidos por Angola, Egipto, Madagascar, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Qatar, Italia, Bosnia y Eslovenia. Permanecen hasta 2009 flagrantes violadores de los derechos humanos, como Arabia Saudita, China y Cuba, además de algunas otras dictaduras, pero el predominio de las democracias es evidente. Según la evaluación anual de Freedom House, sólo 10 de ellos pueden calificarse como "not free". Esta evaluación se basa en un análisis del respeto y la aplicación de las libertades civiles y los derechos políticos, así como la separación de poderes y los procesos democráticos que se perciben en cada país, para clasificarlos como "free", "partialy free" y "not free".
A diferencia de la Comisión anterior, que sólo se reunía una vez por año, el Consejo celebra varios períodos de sesiones y puede sesionar extraordinariamente a petición de sus miembros para examinar situaciones de emergencia, como en los recientes casos de Myanmar y Darfur. El próximo período de sesiones se celebrará entre el 2 y el 13 de junio. No obstante, no se esperan cambios notables en la aplicación y defensa de los derechos humanos porque el Consejo sigue politizado por una desproporcionada influencia de países que forman parte del Movimiento de los "no alineados" y/o de la Conferencia Islámica, que suelen ser transigentes con los países más violadores de estos derechos.
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China's political repression against an environmentalist |
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 Polluted, poisonous and immune to popular efforts to enforce a clean-up: Tai Lake is a metaphor for the state of China's politics
The Economist, May 11.- The plain-clothes police are always there, watching Xu Jiehua. When she goes out, two of them follow by motorcycle. Sometimes an unmarked car joins them, tailing her closely on the narrow road winding past the factories and wheat fields around her village. Ms Xu is used to the attention. Her husband, Wu Lihong, was arrested in April last year and sentenced four months later to three years in prison for [alleged] fraud and blackmail. For her, the police harassment is proof that the charges were false, and that Mr Wu's only crime was to anger local officials with his tireless campaigning against pollution around nearby Tai Lake, China's third-biggest freshwater body. It is also a warning that she too should keep quiet. |
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Denuncias de violaciones de los derechos humanos
La Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas recibe anualmente alrededor de 400,000 denuncias de violaciones a los derechos humanos, de los que gran parte llegan a través del número de fax de emergencia que funciona las 24 horas del día: (41-22) 917-0092. Cada año, se reciben por esta vía casi 200,000 comunicaciones informando sobre violaciones.
Las denuncias de violaciones de derechos humanos también se pueden hacer a través de la página en Internet del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos. Además, DemocraciaParticipativa.net pone a disposición de todos esta página interactiva para recoger y retrasmitir todo tipo de denuncias e informes.
Reporting human rights violations
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights receives some 400,000 complaints on human rights violations every year. Many of them are received through the emergency Fax available every day for 24 hours: (41-22) 917-0092. This fax number receives some 200,000 reports per year.
Everyone may also send their complaints through the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In addition, ParticipatoryDemocracy.net has this interactive page available for publishing complaints and other reports on human rights.
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