Category:Human rights

A

• [×] Abortion‎ (51 articles)
• [×] Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse affair‎ (17 articles)
• [×] ACLU‎ (23 articles)
• [×] Amnesty International‎ (24 articles)

D

• [×] Don't ask, don't tell‎ (7 articles)

E

• [×] Euthanasia‎ (5 articles)

H

• [×] Human Rights Watch‎ (64 articles)
• [×] Human trafficking‎ (23 articles)

L

• [+] LGBT‎ (166 articles; 2 subcategories)

S

• [×] Sex crimes‎ (96 articles)

S cont.

• [×] Social welfare‎ (13 articles)
• [+] Society‎ (45 articles; 1 subcategory)

W

• [+] Women's rights‎ (29 articles; 4 subcategories)

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• 'Bang bang': UK mercenary charged with murdering colleagues gives evidence in Iraq
• 'Enough, enough, enough, enough': 1700 women march against mass rape in DR Congo
• 'Guantanamo'-style detention facility under construction on Australian Island
• 'No treaty withdrawal', says Lakota elder

2

• 2006 "Stolenwealth" Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
• 2006 Oscars handed out at Kodak Theatre
• 23 Australians arrested in global child porn network
• 28 alleged Putin insulters freed from police custody

4

• 401 children from Texas sect compound taken into custody
• 42 West Papuan asylum seekers get temporary Australian visas

5

• 50 arrested ahead of Swaziland democracy protests

A

• Aboriginal primacy bill introduced to the New South Wales legislative assembly
• Academy Award-winning film director Paul Haggis leaves Scientology
• Accusations Tigger threw punch fill airwaves as teen claims neck injuries
• ACLU commemorates anniversary of US Supreme Court decision on student free speech
• ACLU describes President Bush's veto of CIA waterboarding ban as 'a callous disregard for human rights'
• ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
• Activists in Tunisia thrashed by police
• Afghan women's rights official shot dead
• African Union refuses to arrest Sudan's President for war crimes
• Aid payments to be withdrawn by UK following violence in Ethiopia
• Al Sharpton speaks out on race, rights and what bothers him about his critics
• Ali Hassan al-Majid and two others sentenced to death by Iraqi court
• Alleged 'rights group' tries to have 4,000 anti-Scientology videos removed from YouTube
• Alleged kidney harvester arrested in Nepal
• Amazon.com de-ranks LGBT books, blames "glitch"
• American Indian Movement spokesperson dies, age 75
• American journalist in Iran freed from prison
• American soldiers accused of desecrating enemy bodies
• Amnesty International accuses Israel of "war crimes" in Lebanon
• Amnesty International calls for Guantanamo shutdown
• Amnesty International calls for police justice in Mozambique
• Amnesty International tells Iran to free imprisoned journalists
• Amnesty International urges investigations of top U.S. officials
• Amnesty Report 2006: disadvantaged pay price of war on terror
• Amnesty report's criticisms rejected by Bush administration
• Amnesty: "looming human rights crisis" in Darfur
• Anti-censorship developers targeting China's "Great Firewall"
• Archbishop says abortion and euthanasia are 'terrorism with a human face'
• Arkansas judge tells parents to leave Tony Alamo compound to regain custody of seized children
• ARM: 2010 worst year for Afghanistan since US invasion
• Assisted-suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83
• Assisted-suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian to run for US Congress
• Asylum seeker hunger strike enters seventh week
• Australia grants temporary asylum to 12 Commonwealth Games athletes
• Australia silent on UN racism committee condemnation
• Australia's million-dollar-a-month Nauru detention centre for two refugees
• Australian "terror laws" face backlash
• Australian charities slam new welfare rules
• Australian columnist 'offended, insulted, humiliated' fair-skinned Aborigines
• Australian David Hicks is released from Yatala Labour Prison
• Australian emergency services personnel exposed to asbestos
• Australian Govt to lessen numbers of immigrants detained indefinitely
• Australian man to be executed in Singapore
• Australian Medical Association withdraws from NT Intervention
• Australian Minister 'leaks' draft of anti-terror bill
• Australian PM Gillard pressured to address human rights crackdown in China
• Australian Prime Minister blames asylum seekers for "Children Overboard" scandal
• Australian Prime Minister visits India
• Australian teacher drops 'gay' from kookaburra folk song
• Australian video journalist denies bodies burned in disrespect
• Australian woman claims Church of Scientology imprisoned her for twelve years
• Australians fast over 2004 Xmas in empathy with detainees
• Authenticity of new Abu Ghraib photos confirmed
• Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive
• Author of My Billion Year Contract reflects on life in elite Scientology group
• Authorities impose vehicle ban on Baghdad

A cont.

• Ayman al-Zawahri releases new video tape

B

• BBC global poll finds majority feel the US led Iraq invasion increased likelihood of terrorist attacks
• Belgium indicts former Chad dictator accused of humanitarian crimes
• 'Big Brother Australia' evictee recounts youth in controversial religious group
• Blair rejects anti-terror bill compromise
• Blown for Good author discusses life inside international headquarters of Scientology
• Brazil defends China against human rights violation charges in UN
• Brazilian tribe is neither a new discovery nor a hoax
• User:Brian McNeil/Wikinews questions Senior Counterterrorism Counsel of HRW on Camp Delta and more
• British conductor Edward Downes and wife die in double assisted suicide
• British government scraps planned rules on pay equality
• British MP condemns deportation of man to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• British national Akmal Shaikh executed in China
• Briton faces execution in China
• Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal delayed further
• Buffalo, NY magazine to publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
• Bush Administration changes official position on legitimacy of Qur'an desecration allegations

C

• Caged children well fed, behaved
• California public school requires RFIDs on students
• California refuses gay marriage ban
• California Senate votes to allow gay marriages
• California state legislature passes same-sex marriage bill
• California's same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional; appeal expected
• California's violent video game ban law ruled unconstitutional by US Court of Appeals
• Campaigners angry at new British police tracking system
• Canada adds United States to list of countries that torture
• Canada becomes 4th nation to allow same-sex marriage
• Canadian diplomat and whistleblower Richard Colvin files complaint against Harper government
• Canadian GG offers statement on International Women's Day
• Canadian Government apologises for Residential Schools
• Canadian held in China faces execution
• Canadian still faces public beheading in Saudi Arabia
• Canupa Gluha Mani speaks about Lakota Oyate, Lakota freedom
• Carter's CIA chief labels Dick Cheney "vice president for torture"
• CBS blog criticizes stations' coverage of Tigger incident
• Charles Taylor of Liberia boycotts war crimes trial
• Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, to have sex change operation
• Chechnyan president sues Russian activist over murder claim
• Cheney lobbies for CIA exemption to torture ban
• Chile remembers its own September 11 anniversary
• China accused of torturing Chinese-Canadian prisoner
• China commutes Tibetan monk's death sentence
• China dissaproves of Dalai Lama's meeting with Canada's PM
• China enters UN human rights council
• China executes more people than rest of world combined, according to report
• China hands stiff sentences to 27 farmers over land seizure protest
• China offers Africa financial aid including $10 billion in loans
• China releases 'Human rights report' on U.S.
• China sentences dissident to eleven years in prison
• China sentences geologist to eight years in prison despite US appeal
• Chinese activist severely beaten by "mob"
• Chinese dissident goes on trial for subversion
• Chinese human rights activist faces trial
• Chinese party elders denounce media censorship
• Chinese political dissident Hu Jia freed as Chinese Premier Wen visits Britain
• Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visits Shakespeare's birthplace
• Chinese president Hu Jintao visits United States
• Christmas Island detention centre reopened
• Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections
• Colombian journalist denied entry into US
• Community forum held after attacks on Mormon teens in Arizona
• Controversial development training cited in religious discrimination lawsuits
• Controversial evangelist leader Tony Alamo arrested in child sex investigation
• Coretta Scott King passes away
• Council of Europe planning to use satellite images in prisons probe
• Court photos show FLDS leader Warren Jeffs with child brides
• Court rules against Texas officials in FLDS case

C cont.

• Crackdown on protests in Bahrain continue as uprising's first anniversary approaches
• Crucifixes can be displayed in state schools, European court rules
• Culture of violence reported in central Australian Aboriginal communities

D

• Dalai Lama to meet with Canada's PM on Monday
• Dan Savage wins Webby Award for It Gets Better Project
• Danish police arrest three in cartoonist murder plot
• Davao City, Philippines militant leaders declare victory
• David Hicks transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Australian prison
• Demonstrations planned to protest internet censorship in Finland
• Demonstrators protest Condoleezza Rice's trip to Australia
• Deported Australian granted visa after two years in Serbian limbo
• District of Columbia Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee announces resignation
• Documents show U.S. knew of Guatemalan human rights abuses
• Dr. Aafia’s son freed by Kabul, flown to Islamabad

E

• Eighth Filipino journalist killed this year
• Electronic Frontier Foundation files motion to stop AT&T from forwarding Internet traffic to NSA
• Emergency at JDS Uniphase in San Jose, CA
• England's elderly face human rights breaches in home care system
• EU states warned on CIA prisons
• EU's human rights court endorses Turkish headscarf ban
• European court in Strasbourg rules UK's Terrorism Act in breach of human rights law
• European Court of Human Rights orders UK to compensate Islamist
• European human rights body condemns U.S. "torture" at Guantanamo Bay
• Events cancelled at Humber due to college strike

F

• Fact-finder confirms that Arar was tortured
• FBI asks Wikimedia Foundation to remove seal from websites, Wikimedia declines
• Federal judge calls EPA head's post 9/11 conduct "conscience-shocking".
• Filipino activist leader survives assassination attempt
• Final US manufacturer ceases production of lethal injection drug; executions delayed
• Finnish internet censorship critic blacklisted
• First openly gay prime minister to be appointed in Iceland
• Five of six accused over 9/11 to be tried; charges against '20th hijacker' dropped
• Former Australian PM attacks parliament on apology to the Stolen Generations
• Former Bosnian president arrested in London
• Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić boycotts genocide trial
• Former Chadian leader receives death sentence
• Former chaplain at Guantanamo tells about abuse and underage prisoners
• Former head of Radio Liberty Russian Broadcasts criticizes Kremlin's reaction to Russian journalist's murder
• Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell
• Founder of Amnesty International dies, aged 83
• Freed journalist calls on Iran to release aid worker
• French anthropologist Germaine Tillion dies at 100
• Full extent of Abu Ghraib detainee abuse revealed
• Full video of Tigger incident reveals different story

G

• Gay couple elected prom king and queen in Maine's Sanford High School
• Gay marriage banned in three states; other ballot measures decided
• Gay teachers' status uncertain after Polish election
• George Bush delivers State of the Union address
• German court upholds surveillance of Scientology
• German police seize Tor anonymity servers
• GLAAD Media Awards nominees announced
• Google may shut down Chinese operations due to censorship and cyber attacks
• Gordon Parks, African American filmmaker, dies at 93
• Government of Zimbabwe forces thousands out of their homes
• Government poll indicates 85.6% of Japanese support death penalty
• Governor of New Hampshire signs law legalizing same-sex marriages
• Guantanamo detainee commits suicide
• Guantanamo detainee David Hicks seeks UK passport
• Guantanamo prisoner seeks UK citizenship, asylum
• Guantanamo prisoners stage hunger strike
• Guinea to launch investigation into killing of protestors
• Gunmen abduct 3 ICRC representatives in the Philippines

H

• Homophobic attack on trainee police officer in Liverpool
• Huge Gay Pride parade held in Brazil
• Human remains in mass grave confirm Argentina secret death camp
• Human rights group alleges U.S. prison ships