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Top U.N. human rights forum to examine food crisis

Reuters - Friday, May 9 11:05 am

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world's food crisis is undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday. More »

  • Somali insurgents briefly seize police base

    Reuters - Friday, May 9 09:53 am

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist rebels firing rocket-propelled grenades briefly seized a major police base in the heart of Somalia's capital, residents said on Friday, raising even more doubt over prospects for rare peace talks. More »

  • Adidas says image still unharmed by Olympic protests

    Reuters - Thursday, May 8 02:27 pm

    MUNICH (Reuters) - German sports goods maker Adidas sees no immediate harm to its image from Olympics protests but cannot rule out negative effects in the future, its chief executive told shareholders on Thursday. More »

  • Protesters participate in a demonstration outside Bakara market in Mogadishu May 6, 2008. Mogadishu residents protested for a second day on Tuesday against food traders who are rejecting old currency notes, fuelling tension as residents go hungrier, witnesses said.

    Amnesty says civilians targeted in Somalia conflict

    Reuters - Tuesday, May 6 02:29 pm

    NAIROBI (Reuters) - All parties in Somalia's conflict have carried out rights abuses including executions, rape and torture, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, adding there were reports Ethiopian soldiers had slit civilians' throats. More »

  • A vendor prepares rice in plastic containers at a market in central Jakarta May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi

    U.N. Rights Council urged to address food crisis

    Reuters - Friday, May 2 08:24 pm

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The new U.N. food envoy on Friday sought a special meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council this month to address a global food crisis he said was a "massive violation" of human rights. More »

  • "Torture is terrorism", ex-Guantanamo man tells U.S.

    Reuters - Friday, May 2 07:00 pm

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday after more than six years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to respect human rights and branding torture as terrorism. More »

  • U.S. lawmakers want Olympic opening ceremony boycott

    Reuters - Thursday, May 1 11:26 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative and liberal members of Congress banded together on Thursday to urge a U.S. government boycott of the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in China, accusing Beijing of gross human rights violations. More »

  • A guard tower of Camp Delta is seen at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this file picture.

    Guantanamo detainees to sue UK

    Reuters - Tuesday, April 29 04:00 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - Lawyers for former detainees are preparing to sue the government and intelligence services for alleged complicity in abuse of terrorism suspects by the United States and Pakistan. More »

  • Olympic torch protesters denied entry to Hong Kong

    Reuters - Sunday, April 27 11:15 am

    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's decision to bar three human rights activists who planned to protest against rights violations in China during the Olympic torch relay in the city on May 2, was criticised on Sunday by a pro-democracy group. More »

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