Tag archieven: Human Rights

augustus 12, 2014 · 2:57 pm

[Human Rights Watch]/Egypt: Rab’a Killings Likely Crimes Against Humanity

EGYPT: RAB’A KILLINGS LIKELY CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

 

No Justice a Year Later for Series of Deadly Mass Attacks on Protesters
AUGUST 12, 2014
  • What Egypt Should Do:
    End excessive use of force in policing demonstrations
    What UN Member Countries Should Do:
    Urgently establish an international commission of inquiry to investigate mass killings of protesters; Suspend all sales and provision to Egypt of security-related items and assistance
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  • An officer from the Egyptian Central Security Forces (CSF) takes aim at a crowd of retreating protesters as security forces disperse the Rab’a sit-in on August 14, 2013.

    © 2013 AFP/Getty Images
OUR REPORT:

(Cairo) – The systematic and widespread killing of at least 1,150 demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in July and August 2013 probably amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today in a report based on a year-long investigation. In the August 14 dispersal of the Rab’a al-Adawiya sit-in alone, security forces, following a plan that envisioned several thousand deaths, killed a minimum of 817 people and more likely at least 1,000.

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augustus 11, 2014 · 8:27 pm

Pro Palestinian activists close Staffordshire Drone Engine Factory with Rooftop Protest/Statement of solidarity

PRO PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS CLOSE STAFFORDSHIRE
DRONE ENGINE FACTORY WITH ROOFTOP PROTEST/STATEMENT OF
SOLIDARITY
for now have caused 1916 Palestinian deaths, destroyed thousands
Also in the international arena it had consequences:
Five influential South American countries, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile,
El Salvador and Peru, have recalled their envoys.
UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon reacted violently on the [second] Israeli
attacking of a UN School, calling it a ”criminal act”.
Even die hard ally and arms supplier, the USA,  were ”appalled” by
the ”disgraceful” shelling of the UN School.
ABOUT  EU COUNTRIES AND THE RELATION WITH THE ISRAELI ARMY

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augustus 10, 2014 · 11:16 pm

Gaza Solidarity Action/Statement of Solidarity with the Elbit Rooftop Occupiers/No Arming Israeli criminal Regime of Occupation

GAZA SOLIDARITY ACTION/STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE
 ISRAELI CRIMINAL  REGIME OF OCCUPATION
Dear Fighters of Justice,
Hereby I express my solidarity with your courageous
owned subsidiary of the Israeli military company, Elbit Systems,
is fully responsible for the Israeli warcrimes and crimes of
humanity in Gaza.
It´s a shame and disgrace that your government as well as mine
are still cooperating with the murderous IDF gang, your
EU as a whole turns a blind eye to Israel´s crimes.
Therefore all of them have  blood on their hands.
But we will not let them get away with this and go on with the struggle,
in solidarity, untill the Palestinian people is really free.
Israel, the occupying power, has to withdraw from the Palestinian
territories, dismantle the illegal settlements, break down
the illegal Wall and acknowledge the Palestinian right of return.
Dismantling of the zionist apartheid State!
One free Palestinian State for all its inhabitants,
Israeli, Palestinians and others.
INTIFADA, INTIFADA, FOR A FREE PALESTINE!
In solidarity
Astrid Essed
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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augustus 1, 2014 · 3:41 am

Israeli military operation on Gaza ”Protective Edge”/Letter to mrs Ashton, EU Chief Foreign Affairs

ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATION ”PROTECTIVE EDDGE”/LETTER TO MRS ASHTON, EU CHIEF

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

 

TO MRS C ASHTON
HIGH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNION FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY
EU RELATION WITH ISRAEL IN THE LIGHT OF THE ISRAELI
ATTACK ON GAZA ”PROTECTIVE EDGE”
”The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom,
democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including
the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values
are common to the Member States of a society in which pluralism,
tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men
prevail”
Article 2, Lisbon Treaty
”The Union’s action on the international scene shall be guided by the principles which have
inspired its own creation, development and enlargement, and which it seeks to advance in the wider
world: democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and
fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law.”
Article 21, Lisbon Treaty
Dear Mrs Ashton,
At the moment I am writing  to you, at least 1437 Palestinians,
in Gaza have been killed, since Israel started its military
operation ”Protective Edge”. [1]
Among those killed were 342 children.
According to sources in Gaza’s Ministry of health, 80
per cent are civilians. I fear this number will have
increased at the moment you read this letter.
The last horror I learnt was the Israeli attack on a UN School,
killing 15 and wounding 125. [2]
On Israeli side, there were three civilian victims,  two Israeli  and a
Thai worker.
No less deplorable, but, like the conflict, assymetric.
Those killings, with the high civilian toll, are not only horrible,
but stem chiefly from Israeli indiscriminate attacks and
extrajudicial killings [3], which are serious breaches of
International Humanitarian Law, failing to make
a clear distinction between combatants and non combatants.[4]

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juli 16, 2014 · 1:59 pm

(Human Rights Watch)/Israel/Palestine/Unlawful Israeli Airstrikes Kill Civilians

ISRAEL/PALESTINE/UNLAWFUL ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES KILL CIVILIANS

 

Bombings of Civilian Structures Suggest Illegal Policy
JULY 16, 2014

  • An Israeli airstrike on this apartment building in Gaza on July 9, 2014, killed Amal Abed Ghafour, 30, and her year-old daughter, who were in their home across the street. A small non-explosive “warning” missile was fired at the building minutes before the main strike, but the family did not know of the warning or have time to flee.

    © 2014 Deema El Ghoul/ Human Rights Watch
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Israel’s rhetoric is all about precision attacks but attacks with no military target and many civilian deaths can hardly be considered precise. Recent documented cases in Gaza sadly fit Israel’s long record of unlawful airstrikes with high civilian casualties.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director

(Gaza) – Israeli air attacks in Gaza investigated by Human Rights Watch have been targeting apparent civilian structures and killing civilians in violation of the laws of war. Israel should end unlawful attacks that do not target military objectives and may be intended as collective punishment or broadly to destroy civilian property. Deliberate or reckless attacks violating the laws of war are war crimes, Human Rights Watch said.

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juli 14, 2014 · 3:52 pm

[Human Rights Watch]/Dispatches: Qatar’s Labor Reforms Fall Short

DISPATCHES: QATAR’S LABOR REFORMS FALL SHORT

 

FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Nicholas McGeehan

The Qatar Supreme Committee, the body charged with delivering the Gulf state’s 2022 World Cup, this morning released its Workers’ Welfare Standards. In this detailed 50-page document, the committee outlines how it intends to ensure the basic rights of foreign migrant workers involved in select projects related to the construction of stadiums and associated infrastructure. (Another quasi-governmental body, the Qatar Foundation, released a similar set of standards in April 2013.)

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· 3:45 pm

[Human Rights Watch]/Qatar: Serious Migrant Worker Abuses

QATAR: SERIOUS MIGRANT WORKER ABUSES

 

Construction Boom Not Accompanied by Labor Reform
JANUARY 21, 2014
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Qatar is in the spotlight over an issue that blights the Gulf region, and Qatari officials should see this as an opportunity to set a positive example. If Qatar seizes the opportunity, it will win international acclaim.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director

(Beirut) – International criticism over serious abuses of migrant workers was focused onQatar during 2013, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014. The authorities have ignored warnings to reform a legal and regulatory system that facilitates forced labor.

Human Rights Watch said in January 2013 that without major reforms, the tens of thousands of migrant workers building infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup would face exploitation and misery. Further revelations were made in 2013 of appalling living and working conditions and high death rates for migrant workers. But despite mounting international criticism, Qatari authorities have given no indication they intend to carry out needed reforms.

 

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juni 18, 2014 · 12:05 pm

March for Freedom/Police accused of abusing protester

MARCH FOR FREEDOM/POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS OF
MARCH FOR FREEDOM
Dear Readers,
Recently I wrote a letter of protest to the ambassaor of
Luxembourg in the Netherlands as the consul, about police\
violence against the peaceful demonstrators of the March for
Freedom at the Kirchberg Conference in  Luxembourg.
See my letter:
See photo’s of police abuse
The March for Freedom protests against the inhuman EU asylum policy,
violating human rights
See

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juni 10, 2014 · 6:21 am

March for Freedom violently attacked by police in Luxembourg/Letter of protest to Ambassador of Luxembourg in the Netherlands

MARCH FOR FREEDOM VIOLENTLY ATTACKED BY
POLICE IN LUXEMBOURG/LETTER OF
PROTEST TO THE AMBASSADOR OF LUXEMBOURG IN THE NETHERLANDS
Dear Readers,
The March For Freedom is a demonstrative protest against
inhuman EU asylum policy  and it stands for the following principles
  • Freedom of movement and of residence for all asylum seekers
  • Stop the Dublin trap and the obligatory residence in Lagers throughout Europe
  • Permanent documents without criteria (not depending on working contracts or individual state prosecution)
  • Stop the imprisonment and deportation of migrants
  • Same working conditions for all
  • Same political, social and cultural rights for all: right to study and to work
  • Stop the European imperialist policies: no more free trade treaties and NATOwars
  • Abolish Frontex, Eurosur and other anti-migration policies and measures
See for the extensive document below
See more about the inhuman asylumpolicy also my website under tag ”Refugees”.

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mei 20, 2014 · 11:20 am

[Marching for Freedom]/Marching for Freedom/Documenting a struggle

MARCHING FOR FREEDOM/DOCUMENTING A STRUGGLE

 

In eleven days we, activists with and without papers, will stand at the border between Germany and France, near Strassbourg. We will have walked there from the German border city Kehl; destination of our journey will be Brussels. The majority of the people involved in the March do not have valid documents; people who do have been asked to leave them at home in solidarity. I will also leave my passport at home.

In eleven days we have started the March to Freedom, an international protest of migrants and supporters. We will walk some 450 kilometers in one month time, during which we will openly and illegally cross a national border four times, because we believe in and fight for the freedom of movement for everybody. We will show that we will not let ourselves be intimidated by the national borders, which have grown into powerful mechanisms of division and exclusion.

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