Food banks across the United States, facing critical shortages, were forced to distribute emergency rations intended for disaster relief.
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Archive for the ‘human rights’ Category
Food banks face critical shortages
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Swedes fight for topless rights
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Swedish women were fighting for their right to go topless.
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Iraq war update
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007It was reported that 2007 was the deadliest year yet for US troops in Iraq, hundreds of US diplomats protested against a government move to force them to accept postings in war-torn Iraq, the UN reported that independent security contractors in Iraq are mercenaries, Congress approved a $459 billion military spending bill, and the Pentagon was secretly reviewing plans to ease enlistment standards to make up for recruiting shortfalls. The number of recruits seeking waivers for criminal behavior rose three percent last year to nearly one-fifth of all prospective servicemembers. Two-thirds of the waivers were approved.
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UN: World has too many people in it
Saturday, October 27th, 2007The UN reported that we may be passing the point of no return.
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UN warns of deteriorating situation in Gaza
Thursday, October 25th, 2007The UN warned that the situation in Gaza was deteriorating fast in a way that undermined potential progress in planned peace talks, and Israel’s defense minister approved sanctions against Gaza, including cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel.
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Gaza hospitals shut-down operations due to lack of supplies
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Hospitals throughout Gaza have shut down their operating rooms due to a lack of essential anaesthetic drugs, the Hamas de facto administration in the Strip said.
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British gov: Burma still holding 2,500 people
Saturday, October 20th, 2007The military regime in Burma is still holding up to 2,500 people in prisons and labour camps around the country, and continues to arrest suspected dissidents, the British government claimed yesterday.
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Israel seizes more Palestinian land
Thursday, October 11th, 2007The Israeli military ordered the seizure of vast new swaths of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
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Burma’s junta: Peace has been restored
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Burma’s junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed.
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Burma military crackdown intensifies
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Burma’s military government has intensified its crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night. U.S. Embassy personnel have found some Buddhist monasteries completely deserted while others have been closed off by soldiers.
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Congress issues harsh criticism of Blackwater
Saturday, September 29th, 2007A Congressional investigation issued a scathing criticism of the private military firm Blackwater USA around the March 2004 mission that saw four of its guards killed and led to a major escalation of the Iraq war.
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Protests; military crackdown in Burma intensifies
Thursday, September 27th, 2007The military junta in Burma killed up to eight protesters in the last two days, and arrested about 500 monks.
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San Francisco to offer care for uninsured adults
Sunday, September 16th, 2007San Francisco decided to offer health care to people that don’t have it.
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American Psychological Associations limits participation in military interrogations
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The American Psychological Association (APA) voted to reject a measure that would have banned its members from participating in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and other US detention centers. While not banning psychologists from participating in interrogations, the council approved a resolution prohibiting involvement in interrogations that use at least 14 specified methods, including sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and mock executions.
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US-funded herbicide kills in Ecuador
Monday, August 20th, 2007US-funded herbicide aerial sprayings of coca plantations in Colombia near the Ecuador border has severely damaged the DNA of local residents, according to a new study.
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Castro to US: Get out of Gitmo
Monday, August 20th, 2007Cuban President Fidel Castro said the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay is occupied ‘illegally’ and the US must hand it over to Cuba.
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Iraq war update
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Iraq’s most senior Sunni politician accused Shiite militias of waging an unprecedented campaign of genocide against Iraq’s Sunni population, President al Maliki called for an emergency summit to end the political deadlock which has left less than half of the cabinet attending meetings, residents of the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya said they fear an all-out war among rival Shiite factions after the local governor and police chief were assassinated, and the U.S. military claimed it had arrested 13 arms smugglers in Baghdad allegedly linked to Iran. Local resident Abu Rasoul described the U.S. raid, “They tied our hands and made us stand against the wall and gave each of us a number written on our shoulders and after that they entered the house and searched it thoroughly. They took away with them one million Iraqi dinars and 755,000 dinars. They arrested three of our sons and one of my nephew whose father is dead and my brother and his son,” he said.
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Chinese government forcefully relocates 250,000 Tibetans
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The Chinese government forcefully relocated 250,000 Tibetans – nearly one-tenth the population – from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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Walmart “volunteers” work for tips in Mexico
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007It was reported that Walmart uses 4,300 unpaid teenagers that it lets “volunteer” to bag groceries at its Mexican stores.
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Prisoner convicted for masturbation
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007A prisoner in Ft. Lauderdale was convicted of indecent exposure for masturbating in his cell.
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