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12 December 2008
A vote in Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the rights of
Indigenous Peoples in the reservation of Raposa Serra do Sol on the
frontier between Brazil
10 December 2008
Irene Khan writes about the continuing human rights issues around the world as Amnesty International celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Hu
09 December 2008
José Luis Urbano is the president of the Foundation for the Defence of
the Right to Education (Asociación Pro-Defensa del Derecho a la
Educación
21 November 2008
If passed, President Evo Morales' new constitution will represent the most significant
advancement of economic, social and cultural rights the country has
seen in ma
07 November 2008
Amnesty International’s
Secretary General Irene Khan has issued an assessment of the human rights
situation in the country and a set of recommendations address
22 October 2008
Multinational Syngenta has given its experimental farm in
Paraná state to the state government, ending a long standing violent
conflict over the site.
06 October 2008
As World Habitat Day focuses on the state of the housing rights situation across the globe, here are case studies from cities in Cambodia, Brazil, Italy, Israel and An
29 February 2008
Cuba signed two major human rights treaties at the UN in New York on Thursday.
18 December 2007
One person in every 35 lives outside the country in which they were
born. Many of those are migrant workers or their family members.
30 August 2007
Several thousand people, primarily peasant farmers and others from poor
Indigenous communities, are at risk of being displaced by plans to
build a dam in Mexico.
