Category: Media Monitoring
NSA/Surveillance: Damning new revelations and still no judicial inquiry
Paris, 25 June 2015 – FIDH and LDH recall that they filed a complaint in July 2013 aimed at the NSA, the FBI and their surveillance practices under the PRISM programme. After more than 18 months since the opening of the preliminary investigation into the case, the Paris Prosecutor had still not made clear how it […]
European governments must take action to release political prisoners in Azerbaijan
Paris, 4 June 2015 – One week before the opening ceremony of the first European Games in the history of the continent, FIDH calls on the European leaders to make the participation of their countries in the opening ceremony of the Games contingent upon the release of political prisoners and activists placed in pre-trial detention […]
Orange in the Occupied Palestinian Territory The company recognizes its responsibility – the State shareholder should halt its support of Israeli settlements
Paris, 27 May 2015 – On the day of the annual meeting of Orange shareholders, 27 May 2015, civil society organisations (NGOs and unions)* urge the company and the French State, a shareholder in the group, to intervene and put a halt to human rights violations to which they would be contributing indirectly through their […]
Joint Statement of Korean civil society organizations calling for immediate humanitarian aid for Rohingya boat people
Approximately 8000 ethnic and religious minority Rohingya peoples and Bangladeshi migrants who left Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to escape to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia are slowly dying on sea due to the respective governments’ refusal to allow migrants ashore. The government of Thailand, which is the mid-way stopover for these migrants, has recently closed off […]
Mushawarat condemns Egyptian death sentences
New Delhi, 18 May, 2015: The continuous barrage of wholesales death sentences against the political opponents of the military regime in Egypt proves that the putschist generals are still not ready for any reconciliation with the country’s only democratically-elected President and his supporters, said the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of […]
SAHR Statement condemning the killing of civilians in Karachi
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a democratic regional network of human rights defenders, strongly condemns the attack on members of the Ismaili sect, killing 47 and injuring a dozen more, by gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan. On 13 May, six armed men on three motorbikes had opened fire on a bus carrying a group of […]
PAKISTAN INDIA PEOPLES’ FORUM FOR PEACE & DEMOCRACY (India)
PRESS STATEMENT May 14, 2014 Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD) strongly condemns the brutal attack in Karachi where 47 people including women were gunned down. The attackers targetted an Ismaili community bus. Jundullah, an anti-shia militia and a splinter group of Tehrik-e-Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack. The killing […]
Pakistan: Arrest, Prosecute Sectarian Killers
(New York, May 14, 2015) – The Pakistan government should investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the May 13, 2015 attack on members of the Ismaili Shia community in Karachi that killed 43 people, Human Rights Watch said today. An extremist group called Jundullah, a splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), or Pakistani […]
Karachi incident calls for appropriate and immediate action to counter religiously motivated terrorism: CHRE
Centre for Human Rights Education- Pakistan, an organization working to promote religious tolerance and respect of religious diversity has strongly condemned the barbaric attack on the Ismaili community (a group of Shia Muslims) in which at least 46 died and 24 injured including children reportedly. Mr. Samson Salamat, Director of the Centre for […]
Appeal from the INSEC Chairperson, Nepal
The devastation caused by earthquake on and after April 25 is massive. More than 7,000 lost their lives and the number is increasing. 39 districts are hit out of which 11 are severely affected. Several historical monuments recognized as world heritage by UNESCO have crumbled. There are always limits to our capacity to mitigate the […]
