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Human Rights in China
China announces human rights plan
In an unprecedent announcement, Chinese officials have stated there will be national plan to improve human rights protection in the country.
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Death penalty takes the lives of two children
Girl, 13, stoned to death in Somalia. Her crime? Reporting that she had been raped.
An Iranian woman spared death penalty after a pardon was given.
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UN calls on Japan to restore dignity for ‘comfort women’
The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the Government of the Japan to accept its responsibility for the system of military sexual slavery in operation during World War II.
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Do you agree with today’s opinion piece in The Age?
Amnesty International's Executive Deputy Secretary General writes from London on Australia's slow progress in addressing issues of violence against women.
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Human Rights in China
Danger for Falun Gong practitioners in Australia
The lack of freedoms in China have a real link to Australia in the form of Falun Gong practitioners seeking asylum here.
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Stop Violence Against Women
Girl stoned to death, Somalia
A 13 year old year old girl was publicly stoned to death on 27 October after attempting to report that she had been raped by 3 men.
End the Death Penalty
Stop action: Yemeni cousins executed
Ismail Lutef Huraish and his cousin Ali Mussara’a Muhammad Huraish were executed on the morning of 29 October. They had exhausted all their appeals and their death sentences had been ratified by the President.
Human Rights in China
China in the headlines – 31 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The China Digital Times looks at how efforts to control information and shape online public opinion are evolving.
The Dalai Lama's envoys head to Beijing for talks with Chinese officials.
A Chinese business weekly has filed a lawsuit against the regional government, after it was shut down for stories it ran about a major state bank.
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Human Rights in China
Internet companies take one small step, but not enough
Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have agreed to a code of conduct about how they do business in countries such as China, which restrict free speech.
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End the Death Penalty
Good news: Juvenile offender’s death sentence has been quashed
Hossein Haghi’s death sentence has been quashed by the head of Iran's judiciary in September 2008.
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