Shabak tortures and ill-treats Palestinian detainees with impunity (VIDEO)

Posted on | februari 8, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI) has released a paper on its efforts to hold the Israel Security Agency (ISA) – or Shabak – to account for its practices of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees. In Accountability Still Denied, PCATI reveals how Israel has evaded criminal investigations into all 701 complaints of torture and ill-treatment.
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Category: human rights, Middle East, war crimes
Tags: IIC > ISA > Israel Palestine > Israel Security Agency > PCATI > torture

Morales reflects on 6 years in power and other news

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Evo Morales

President Morales addressed the nation on Sunday 22 January to mark the second anniversary of the Plurinational State. In his speech Morales made reference to the principal achievements of his government, comparing them with the performance during the previous “neoliberal” period. The president reiterated that the standard of living in Bolivia has improved in many areas, that the process of industrialisation of natural resources is moving ahead, and that there are advances in the institutionalisation of the constitution and in the transformation of the judiciary.
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Category: briefing, Latin America
Tags: acullico > CIDOB > Cochabamba > CONISUR > intangible > Kyoto > Morales > Sánchez > TIPNIS

Falling-down drunk prison officer on video

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Falling-down drunk, uniformed, on-duty prison officer filmed at Odendaalsrust: but he still keeps his job…

A black prison official in Odendaalsrust was filmed on the job falling-down drunk – yet he still keeps his job. Other shocking conditions have also been revealed: with a prison official photographed fast asleep amongst prisoners – with his keys on his belt, noted Volksblad journalist Tom de Wet.
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Category: crime, Sub-Saharan Africa
Tags: Afrikaner > drunk > guard > prison > Tom de Wet > Volksblad

Rewarding Progress: Burma, the United States and the World Bank

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At the inaugural lecture on Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville on January 27th Ambassador Derek Mitchell, the Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma, announced that the Obama administration would seek to reward political reform while maintaining the current sanctions regime until further notice. Yesterday saw more indications of the carrots Washington can give the reformers in Burma when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a partial waiver to lift restrictions on global financial institutions imposed under the Trafficking Victims Act.
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Category: Discovery, foreign aid, South Asia
Tags: Burma > Derek Mitchell > Obama > trafficking > World Bank

Job Opportunities abroad has threats of women trafficking and slavery

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HUMAN SLAVERY and TRAFFICKING has been an issue around the globe. Even worst for the developing and underdeveloped countries where they have been trying to find a viable solution. No matter how hard they try their weak economic crisis makes them vulnerable to such externalities. It has been a huge question of identity for the women of the underdeveloped countries where its relevancy is abstract to the question of its definition. Nepal has been trying to fight WOMEN TRAFFICKING and SLAVERY in many ways. The definition and means have been changing according to time and situation. The awareness programs are getting intense to deal with the hardcore business where the business is also expanding and adapting new forms among its competition and prospects. Like such talking more about today’s TRAFFICKING and SLAVERYsituation, things have changed. The old scenario of agents have transformed into variables of uncountable people in a network that links thousands of people that cannot be easily calculated. Bate for today’s has been lucrative salary and website that lures women of all over especially underdeveloped countries to earn more in despite attempt to save their financial condition. Willingly or unwillingly women are being TRAFFICKED in the name of MIGRANT WORKERS for the treachery of MODERN DAY SLAVERY.
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