Assalamu Alaikum

The HR committee was quite recently set up by members of Isoc that felt obliged to do more to help people all over the world suffering from Human Rights abuses. Widespread public apathy in developed countries coupled with the "War on Terror" has all but stripped billions of people's rights to lead a dignified life. The situation is terrible in places like Palestine & Iraq, and even in Britain muslims are more likely to be stop-searched than anyone else.

The main function of HR is to raise awareness. Awareness of events unfolding around us, catalogued Human Rights abuses, and also awareness of our own rights, and what we should do if they are violated. Our main instrument in acheiving this aim is the weekly newswire, which has links to various pertinent news sources. We are also invited to HR training days around the country and even host some of our own.

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Previous HR newswires

Latest HR Newswire:
17th November 2007
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17th November 2007
Africa:




Displaced in Somalia: Faduma
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7092212.stm

Displaced in Somalia: Yusuf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7090874.stm

Displaced in Somalia: Khatija
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7090560.stm

Anti-French riot erupts in Chad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7094125.stm

UN: Somalia crisis worst in Africa
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DFCEEB71-166D-4BD8-B041-E69983675DF2.htm

UN Darfur security force 'may fail'
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/023B7093-4165-4E47-B97B-A94848895BC9.htm

Atrocity victims asked to forgive
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AF700537-0FF8-466B-B860-AFD175318BA5.htm

ZIMBABWE: Medical fees hike the "final nail" http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/2d0500a79fdfda6409a8a41a0e017830.htm

More than 200 Congo child soldiers freed
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16172799.htm



The Americas:


US government denies visa for South African scholar critical of Iraq war http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/14/america/NA-GEN-US-Scholar-Excluded.php

America suffers an epidemic of suicides among traumatised army veterans http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2873622.ece

USA: LAPD Shelves Muslim Mapping Plan
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13560

Immigration Dilemma: A Mother Torn From a Baby
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17citizen.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

U.S. Measure Against Rape Fails at U.N.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/world/17nations.html

Iraq deaths: Blackwater 'at fault'
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/493D6090-5493-4B77-A554-247BDD4A6B31.htm

Death prompts Canada Taser review
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EA61745D-C48D-44D5-A39A-5D8069EF8BF7.htm

Thousands march in US race rally
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7099405.stm

Asia and the Pacific:





UN gets Myanmar post-mortem reports
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A4B6E54B-C3A2-403D-98D1-323D8B9B79B4.htm

Home alone in rural China
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/49FC8530-7BD2-4FAD-88EB-F4A7B57B87CD.htm

Hundreds held over Malaysia protest
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/72EFBCFD-6A34-4B82-BD57-BB69ADA7C763.htm


Europe:



Hamza faces extradition to US over terrorism charges http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3166429.ece

EU inquiry into CIA prisons to be reopened
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1491093720071114

Air passengers will be forced to give 53 pieces of personal information in new terror crackdown http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=493912&in_page_id=1770

Rail passengers face anti-terror searches
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2211088,00.html

Latest detention plans fail to appease opponents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2211345,00.html

Middle East:





Basra militants targeting women
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7095209.stm

Israeli police arrest hundreds of Palestinian workers inside Israel
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13559

Israelis to demolish Palestinian primary school in Fasayil http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13552

Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2859606.ece

Saudi gang rape sentence 'unjust'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7098480.stm

Reader's views: Gulf maid abuse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7096733.stm

Homes in illegal Israeli settlements for sale at London expo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2212348,00.html

20m reasons to ignore Dubai's rotten record of exploitation
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,,2211189,00.html

Dubai: 'You must come with us'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2209510,00.html

Sunni Group Says U.S. Killed Its Members
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html?ref=world

Palestine: Israeli troops invade Al Ein refugee camp, impose curfew
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13571

Weekly Report: on Israeli Human Rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13567

South Asia:
 
Pakistan: Senior advocate hospitalised after 'police torture'
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=13553

Amnesty warns of Afghan 'torture'
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/014BC7D1-72B1-4507-92D7-17CB615B676A.htm

US-led troops kill Afghan civilians
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/912FC3C7-A80A-476A-8A2B-07D9F670D68E.htm

Charges against Briton 'dropped'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7096916.stm

Pakistan police charge Imran Khan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7095596.stm


All other news and commentary

Manual exposes divide-and-rule tactics in Camp Delta
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2211905,00.html

UN committee calls for abolition of the death penalty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2212203,00.html

See no evil?
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/amir_attaran/2007/11/see_no_evil.html

Terror stricken
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2211308,00.html

The trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo's "child soldier"
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=161

The threat from terrorism does not justify slicing away our freedoms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2211273,00.html
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