Political Prisoner Zanyar Moradi Denied Medical Treatment
Posted on | september 26, 2012 | No Comments
According to reliable sources from Iran, Iranian officials have denied medical treatment to Zanyar Moradi, a political prisoner on death row. The head of the prison ward reportedly had recommended Zanyar Moradi undergo surgical treatment recently. Sources have informed IHR that Zanyar Moradi suffers from severe back pain and other medical conditions which require treatment.
The denial of medical treatment is a way by which Iranian authorities put pressure on political prisoners.
Zanyar and Loghman Moradi are two political prisoners who, under torture, signed a document holding them responsible for the murder of a regime official that took place in a Kurdish city in Iran.
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Tags: death row > Iran > medical > Moradi > murder > political prisoner > prisoners > rape > Shaheed > torture > Zanyar Moradi
Turkey: Arbitrary arrest of İHD Chairperson Ali Tanrıverdi
Posted on | september 26, 2012 | No Comments
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister, Turkey,
Dear Prime Minister,
I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com.
I came to know that OMCT has been informed by reliable sources about the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Ali Tanrıverdi, Chairperson of the Mersin Branch of the Human Rights Association (İnsan Haklari Derneği – İHD).
According to the information received, in the early morning of September 25, 2012, police teams of Mersin Security Directorate carried out simultaneous raids in the province of Mersin, in the context of operations targeting the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) – an organisation said to be the “urban branch” of the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). These operations resulted in the arrest of at least 42 people, including Mr. Ali Tanrıverdi, together with journalists and members of the Kurdish political party Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). Mr. Ali Tanrıverdi’s house was raided while the office of İHD was simultaneously searched for four hours and electronic devices were seized, without any search warrant being produced and while the executives of the organisation were not present. Mr. Tanrıverdi was reportedly not allowed to call his lawyer during the raid on his house, and he and other detainees were informed that they would not be authorised to consult their lawyers during 24 hours.
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Tags: Ali Tanrıverdi > Erdogan > harassment > judicial > KCK > Kurdish > Kurdistan > PKK > Turkey > William Gomes > William Nicholas Gomes
UNECA, UNDP to train Tanzanian officials on APRM implementation
Posted on | september 25, 2012 | No Comments
The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) have jointly sponsored a two days training for Tanzanian officials on the implementation of APRM governance reports in Dar es Salaam starting on this Tuesday, 25 September, 2012.
APRM-the African Peer Review Mechanism, is a program of the African Union (AU) that seeks to foster political, social and economic prosperity of the member states through participation of the people in assessing their countries governance status.
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Tags: African Union > APRM > AU > Dar es Salaam > MTEF > prosperity > Tanzania > UNDP > UNECA
India slowly confronts epidemic of missing children
Posted on | september 25, 2012 | No Comments
Simon Denyer/The Washington Post – Children rescued from a bangle-making factory in New Delhi after a police raid on Sept.5, 2012. More than 90,000 children go missing in India every year, many of them sold into forced labor on farms and in factories.
Every six minutes, a child goes missing in India.
They are boys like Irfan, drugged and abducted at the age of 9 by two men on a motorbike as he walked home one day after playing with friends.
“It was living hell these past two years, trying to figure out where we could find him,” said his father, Iqbal Ali. “I used to run a biscuit bakery, but from the day he disappeared, I got so caught up trying to meet politicians, police and people who claim to do magic to get children back, that I had to shut down my bakery. I had no time for it.”
More than 90,000 children are officially reported missing every year, according to data compiled and released late last year by leading children’s rights group Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which showed the problem was far greater than previously thought.
Up to 10 times that number are trafficked, according to the group — boys and girls, most from poor families, torn from their parents, sometimes in return for cash, and forced to beg or work in farms, factories and homes, or sold for sex and marriage.
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Tags: abducted > Bachpan Bachao Andolan > Bhuwan Ribhu > Child Trafficking > Delhi > drugged > forced > India > International Labor Organization > Irfan > kidnapping > sexual > sexual exploitation > trafficking
Novel program shows strong promise in malaria prevention
Posted on | september 25, 2012 | No Comments
A large scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new cases of the disease among young children during peak transmission season, according to preliminary results from projects run by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in two African countries.
Antimalaria medicines have been administered prophylactically to approximately 175,000 children between three months and five years of age inKoutiala District in southern Mali and in two areas of Moissala District in Chad, through an intervention known as seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). Children in that age group are among the most vulnerable to death from malaria due to weaker immunity. Preliminary results show more than a two-thirds drop in the number of simple malaria cases in the intervention area in Mali and up to an 86 percent drop in Chad. A significant decrease of cases of severe malaria is also being recorded.
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Tags: Chad > diseases > Doctors Without Borders > hospitalized > Malaria > Mali > Médecins Sans Frontières > MSF > WHO > World Health Organization
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