Human Rights

An Expeditionary Task Force patrol dispersed a group of coca growers attempting to block the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz highway in Shinahota. According to eyewitness testimony, members of the forces shot directly at a group of farmers on a market road perpendicular to the highway. Read More

Right till the end of January, Dita Sari was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask today in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities mustered by Reebok. The occasion is the 13th annual Human Rights Awards, overseen by a board that includes Jimmy Carter and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo. Read More

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) today announced Privaterra, a new coalition of computer professionals, human rights workers and human rights organizations joined to harness the power of technology and help protect human rights workers worldwide. Read More

An Indonesian man was shot by security police at an Australian gold mine in Indonesian Borneo. The gold mine is located in a remote area of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, inhabited mainly by indigenous Dayak people. Read More

A WTO review of Guatemala's trade policies has prompted international labor to spotlight that government's total failure to uphold freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively. Read More

A feminist can take some dim comfort from the fact that the Taliban's egregious misogyny is finally considered newsworthy. Read More

Survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and their supporters today celebrated their recent victory in the US Second Circuit Court Of Appeals with a simple feast. The November 15, 2001 decision by the appellate court has reversed nearly half of the rulings taken by Judge Keenan of the Southern District Court in New York when he dismissed the class action suit by the survivors last year. Read More

Survivor groups in Bhopal have drafted the following letter to the government of India and we are asking organizations to sign on to the letter that cautions the Indian government to not drop extradition efforts of Mr. Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the Bhopal tragedy. Read More

The Department of Justice already is using its new anti-terrorism powers to monitor cable modem users without obtaining a judge's permission first. Read More

MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox said Thursday that he had ordered the release of two peasant environmental activists whose convictions on weapons and drug charges had been condemned worldwide. Read More