Chuyên mục: Human rights – Nhân quyền

Kem Sokha detained during Cambodia police raid

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Government cites ‘secret conspiracy’ for nighttime arrest of main opposition leader Kem Sokha.

Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha casts his vote during June elections [Samrang Pring/Reuters]

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was arrested in Phnom Penh early on Sunday and the government of veteran Prime Minister Hun Sen said he was accused of treason.

The government said in a statement it had a video clip and other evidence that pointed to “secret plans of conspiracy between Kem Sokha, others and foreigners to harm the Kingdom of Cambodia”. Tiếp tục đọc “Kem Sokha detained during Cambodia police raid” →

Thai university removes student leader for defying royalist tradition

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Thailand’s prestigious Chulalongkorn University has removed the head of its student council, a vocal critic of military rule, after he was accused of disrupting a royalist initiation ceremony.

 
FILE PHOTO: Anti-junta activist Netiwit Chotipatpaisal speaks during an interview with Reuters at an office in Bangkok, Thailand, May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
01 Sep 2017 08:15PM (Updated: 01 Sep 2017 09:05PM)

BANGKOK: Thailand’s prestigious Chulalongkorn University has removed the head of its student council, a vocal critic of military rule, after he was accused of disrupting a royalist initiation ceremony.

But Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, 20, and the student council said they refused to accept the university order against him and four other members, and would appeal against the decision. Tiếp tục đọc “Thai university removes student leader for defying royalist tradition” →

UN Chief asks all nations to sign new pact protecting women

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A member of the all-female Bangladeshi police unit, preparing to leave the UN mission in Haiti as it closes. A new UN compact with countries connected to a peacekeeping mission is being circulated for signature to help prevent sex abuse and exploitation. LOGAN ABASSI/MINUSTAH

Haunted by accumulating reports of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls by United Nations peacekeepers and others attached to UN missions around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres is taking the bold, unprecedented step of asking all governments to sign a compact pledging to prevent and stop these violations. Tiếp tục đọc “UN Chief asks all nations to sign new pact protecting women” →

What effect did the Crusades have on the Middle East?

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The Europeans besiege Jerusalem, seeking to "liberate" it from Muslim rule, 1099.
The Crusaders or Franks attack Jerusalem during the First Crusade, 1099. Getty Images

TC – by Kallie Szczepanski – Updated June 13, 2017

Between 1095 and 1291, Christians from western Europe launched a series of eight major invasions against the Middle East. These attacks, called the Crusades, were aimed at “liberating” the Holy Land and Jerusalem from Muslim rule.

The Crusades were sparked by religious fervor in Europe, by exhortations from various Popes, and by the need to rid Europe of excess warriors left over from regional wars.

What effect did these attacks, which came from out of the blue from the perspective of Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land, have on the Middle East? Tiếp tục đọc “What effect did the Crusades have on the Middle East?” →

Christianity and Violence: The Crusades

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Knight of the Crusades
Knight of the Crusades. donald_gruener/E+/Getty

TC – by Austin Cline – Updated March 17, 2016

One of the most famous examples of religious violence in the Middle Ages is of course the Crusades – attempts by European Christians to impose their vision of religion upon Jews, Orthodox Christians, heretics, Muslims, and just about anyone else who happened to get in the way. Traditionally the term “Crusades” are limited to describing massive military expeditions by Christians to the Middle East, but it is more accurate to acknowledge that there also existed “crusades” internal to Europe and directed at local minority groups. Tiếp tục đọc “Christianity and Violence: The Crusades” →

Indian city under siege after clashes over ‘rape guru’ kill 36

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Scorch marks from items set on fire are seen on a road in Panchkula, after Singh’s followers went on a rampage following a court’s decision to convict him of rape. (Photo: AFP/Money Sharma)

27 Aug 2017 02:09AM

SIRSA: Hundreds of troops on Saturday (Aug 26) laid siege to the headquarters of a sect led by a controversial Indian guru whose conviction for rape triggered deadly clashes that have killed at least 36 people.

Soldiers and riot police cordoned off the routes leading to the sprawling premises of guru Ram Rahim Singh spread over 1,000 acres (404 hectares) in Sirsa, a town in northern Haryana state. Tiếp tục đọc “Indian city under siege after clashes over ‘rape guru’ kill 36” →

Bangladesh sends back 90 Rohingya despite violence

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A woman holds a child in her arms as she arrives at Yathae Taung township in Rakhine state after fleeing violence in their home village. (Photo: AFP/Wai Moe)

27 Aug 2017 06:53PM

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh has detained and forcibly returned 90 Rohingya migrants to Myanmar, police said Sunday (Aug 27), just hours after Myanmar troops on the other side of the border had opened fire on people fleeing the country.

Police intercepted a group of 70 Rohingya late Saturday after they crossed the “zero line” border zone, where Myanmar soldiers earlier fired mortars and machine guns at villagers making the dangerous dash from the northern state of Rakhine into Bangladesh. Tiếp tục đọc “Bangladesh sends back 90 Rohingya despite violence” →

Myanmar troops open fire on civilians fleeing attacks

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Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.

Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence.

On Saturday, an AFP news agency reporter at Bangladesh’s Ghumdhum border post counted more than a dozen mortar shells and countless machine-gun rounds fired by Myanmar security forces in nearby hills onto a large group of Rohingya desperately trying to cross.

It was not immediately clear if any were hit, but the civilians scattered to evade the barrage.

“They have fired on civilians, mostly women and children, hiding in the hills near the zero line,” Border Guard Bangladesh’s (BGB) station chief Manzurul Hassan Khan confirmed. Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar troops open fire on civilians fleeing attacks” →

Rohingya flee for Bangladesh as fresh violence erupts in Myanmar

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Displaced Rohingya people from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state are gathered at the border town of Ukhiya after Bangladeshi border guards stopped them from entering Bangladesh on Aug 26. efugees towards Bangladesh. (Photo: AFP/STR)
26 Aug 2017 05:05PM (Updated: 26 Aug 2017 06:39PM)

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON: About 1,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar had been halted at the border with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi security officials said on Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state. Tiếp tục đọc “Rohingya flee for Bangladesh as fresh violence erupts in Myanmar” →

Myanmar’s Rakhine a human rights crisis: Kofi Annan

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Myanmar’s western Rakhine state represents a human rights crisis, affecting particularly the Muslim community or Rohingyas there.
 
By May Wong @MayWongCNA

24 Aug 2017 03:53PM (Updated: 24 Aug 2017 05:08PM)

NAY PYI TAW: Myanmar’s western Rakhine state represents a human rights crisis, affecting particularly the Muslim community or Rohingyas there.

The Rakhine Advisory Commission, led by its chairman, the former UN Chief Kofi Annan, gave this assessment, without identifying the Rohingyas by name, in its final report released on Thursday (Aug 24). Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar’s Rakhine a human rights crisis: Kofi Annan” →

Cambodia shutters radio stations, expels US NGO

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Khmer-language stations, Maha Nokor and Voice of Democracy, ordered closed as more media face legal threats.

Analysts said critical media are being targeted ahead of the 2018 polls [File: Reuters]

The government of Cambodia has shut down two independent radio stations and ordered the foreign staff of an American NGO to leave the country in the latest move against critics ahead of a general election next year.

The orders on Wednesday came a day after long-time Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened the Cambodia Daily, one of the country’s few remaining critical newspapers, with closure over an alleged unpaid tax bill of more than $6m, calling them “thieves”. Tiếp tục đọc “Cambodia shutters radio stations, expels US NGO” →

Witch Hunts in Europe: Timeline

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A History of Pursuit of Accused Witches

Saul and the Witch of Endor, 1526. Artist: Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Jacob (ca. 1470-1533)
Saul and the Witch of Endor, 1526. Artist: Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Jacob (ca. 1470-1533). Heritage Images/Getty Images / Getty Images

by Jone Johnson Lewis

TC – Updated August 11, 2017

The history of witchcraft in Europe begins with both folk beliefs and with religious and classical texts. The texts have roots in Hebrew, Greek and Roman history. The development of beliefs about what witchcraft meant — and especially the history of its gradual identification as a kind of heresy — takes effect over hundreds of years. I have also included a few American and global events for perspective on the history of witchcraft trials and executions. Tiếp tục đọc “Witch Hunts in Europe: Timeline” →

Nạn buôn bán người ở Việt Nam – Báo cáo của Bộ Ngoại Giao Hoa Kỳ 2017

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English: Trafficking in Persons Report 2017 

Chính phủ Việt Nam chưa đạt đầy đủ các tiêu chuẩn tối thiểu về xóa bỏ nạn buôn người; tuy nhiên, đã có những nỗ lực đáng kể. So sánh với kỳ báo cáo trước, chính phủ VN đã thể hiện nỗ lực ngày càng tăng; vì vậy, Việt Nam vẫn được duy trì ở nhóm 2.

Chính phủ thể hiện sự tăng thêm nỗ lực thông qua việc xác định các nạn nhân; mở rộng các chương trình đào tạo về chống buôn người và chiến dịch nhận thức cho các cán bộ thực thi pháp luật, cán bộ địa phương, thành viên của các nhóm có nguy cơ bị buôn bán; và ban hành hướng dẫn tới các bộ liên quan, lãnh đạo các tỉnh về kế hoạch hành động quốc gia chống nạn buôn người. Tuy nhiên, chính phủ đã không đạt được những tiêu chuẩn tối thiểu ở một số lĩnh vực chính. Nỗ lực chống nạn buôn người bị cản trở do thiếu sự hợp tác giữa các ngành, các cán bộ tỉnh chưa nắm rõ luật chống buôn bán người, thủ tục xác định nạn nhân, và thu thập dữ liệu chưa đầy đủ.
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3 Hình tội Chiến tranh xâm lược của Trung quốc đối với nhân dân Việt Nam

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First posted on UNCLOSforum.wordpress.com on Aug. 6, 2014

 

Tuyên cáo về các Nguyên tắc Luật Quốc tế về Liên hệ Hữu nghị và Hợp tác giữa các Quốc gia theo đúng Hiến chương Liên hợp quốc (“Tuyên cáo”) được Đại hội đồng Liên hợp quốc thông qua ngày 17 tháng 10 năm 1970 quy định “Nguyên tắc rằng mọi Quốc gia, trong các liên hệ quốc tế, tự kiềm chế không dùng hăm dọa hay sử dụng vũ lực chống lại toàn vẹn chủ quyền hoặc độc lập chính trị của bất kỳ Quốc gia nào hoặc dưới bất kỳ hình thức nào trái ngược với các mục đích của Hiến chương Liên hợp quốc.”

Bản Tuyên cáo tuyên bố: Tiếp tục đọc “3 Hình tội Chiến tranh xâm lược của Trung quốc đối với nhân dân Việt Nam” →