Newsletter of the International Society for Human Rights-Australia Inc. PO Box 168 Thomastown Victoria 3074 Editor : John Launder Vol: 5-No: 2 October 2009 ABN 79 428 071 539 Inc:A0031346L.
"Press in Bangladesh enjoys full and unhindered freedom without any kind of censorship" - so the official homepage of the Bangladesh Embassy in Germany. The persecution case of the Bangladeshi chief editor of two weekly newspapers Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury tells another story. Choudhury is a Muslim journalist, publisher, author and peace activist, a persistent and outspoken opponent of the radical Islamists and advocate of human and religious rights. He is the only Muslim journalist facing sedition, treason and blasphemy charges for confronting culture of jihad and religious hatred as well as promoting interfaith understanding and establishment of relations between Israel and the Muslim nations. His next trial is on April 15, 2008.
Almost every detainee in China has to, or has had to, suffer abuse or torture. Beatings and kicks, electric shocks, contortion and excessive twisting of limbs, hunger, thirst and sleep deprivation, sexual violence or other cruelties.
ISHR Switzerland: INVITATION to the Development of events at the International Level During the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. (In French, German and Englisch)
ISHR Australia has received two heartfelt appeals. - Kenya: Following the elections in Kenya there was an outbreak of violence. Here are excerpts from emails from Bishop Joseph Kimani of the Evangelical Church at Nakauru, President of the ISHR Kenya. Bishop Kimani was forced to re-locate his needy children's school. - Nepal: Refugee Camp Fire, March 2008. Nepal has some 104,000 refugees from neighboring Bhutan, who have fled persecution. An appeal to ISHRA Committee member David Aitken from his refugee friend Kiran in Timai camp in Nepal - yet another example of 'ethnic cleansing' - a situation that happens too often in our world.
- Droits de l'homme 2008 - Fêter le 60è anniversaire de la Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen - Droits culturels, oui mais! - Le Venezuela et les risques de dérives totalitaires - Droits de l'homme er démocratie dans la CEI - Le Togo poursuit ses efforts - La SIDH sur le terrain - Corée du Nord: la fin du cauchemar enfin en vue? - Un réfugié témoigne? - Cuba: la fin, enfin?
La Section sénégalaise de la Société Internationale pour les Droits de l'Homme (SIDH/Sénégal), dans le cadre de l'exécution son programme quinquennal, a eu à mener, durant l'année 2007, des activités de promotion des droits de l'Homme avec le soutien financier de la SIDH/ France. Ces activités sont essentiellement axées sur le séminaire de formation des observateurs pour les élections du 27 février 2007, la caravane de sensibilisation pour un retrait massif des cartes d'électeur, la mise en place des clubs des droits de l'Homme dans les établissements publics et privés du cycle moyen et secondaire dans les départements de Pikine et de Rufisque et la tenue de conférences publique et privées..
The ISHR Australia Report 2007: Work for the Themy Orpanage in Cambodia, the Burma political prisoners assistance and refugee relief (Thai-Burma Border), HRs Advocacy and Education and Development Aid in Afghanistan, Haiti and Bangladesh.
...After showing me the computer room mentioned above, Sein took me to see the 'hidden' villagers, whose simple thatched huts or platforms are scattered in the fields or hollows, hidden from immediate view. They are ready to scatter into the nearby hills if Rocky Mountain is raided by the Thai Army, as happened early this year. If 'illegals' are captured they can be arrested and sent back over the (Burmese) border, their huts bull-dozed and belongings scattered. Most manage to return and rebuild their flimsy homes but it is a precarious way of living. Yet in a way the villagers feel freer than if they were in a refugee camp..
