Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP)
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP), adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2007, is the most comprehensive and advanced of international instruments dealing with indigenous peoples’ rights. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America rejected the Declaration at first but likewise gave their consent later. Those states who decided to abstain still need to be encouraged to endorse the Convention.
Under the dictatorial one-party rule of President Isaias Afewerki’s People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) the human rights situation did not show any signs of improvement in Eritrea.
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has been ruling the country since the liberation in 1975. The MPLA was confirmed in the legislative elections of 2008, the first general elections since 1992. Despite this victory in elections, the government still is exercising a tight control of the media, civil society, human rights defenders and political dissidents.
Twenty years after the beginning of the Algerian Civil War which started in December 1991 justice is still denied by Algerian authorities. No efforts were undertaken to investigate the disappearance of thousands of citizens or other serious human rights violations.
The aims of the first Petersberg conference have not been achieved. Warlordism and Islamic fundamentalism threaten to take over Afghan politics. The ISAF counterinsurgency strategy aims to co-opt local power brokers. These days the decision of NATO to stop the transfer of prisoners to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) prisons as a means of avoiding torture speaks for itself.
After the disturbances in Urumqi – Persecution of Uyghurs in China continues
Eight months after the disturbances in Urumqi of July 2009 the real extent of the sometimes violent conflicts between Uyghurs, Han Chinese and the government security forces is still not clear. China’s authorities refuse all independent investigations into what happened, the background and the consequences of the most serious conflict for decades in Xinjiang (East Turkestan).
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Vor dem Hintergrund neuer Massenverhaftungen von über 200 Aktivisten der prokurdischen Partei DTP (Demokratik Toplum Partisi) diskutierten am Freitagabend auf Einladung der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und des Sprachenateliers Berlin 250 Personen über den zukünftigen Kurs der Türkei. Auf dem Podium sassen der Journalist Hasan Cemal (Milliyet), die Politikerin Sevahir Bayindir (DTP) und der Türkei-Korrespondent der Süddeutschen Zeitung, Kai Strittmatter.
Truppenaufstockung und Verhandlungen auch mit gemäßigten Taliban – mit dieser Taktik wollen NATO und Karzai-Regierung die Initiative in Afghanistan zurück gewinnen. Und man versucht, verstärkt mit den Vertretern „traditioneller Strukturen“ zusammen zu arbeiten, in der Balkh- Provinz, wo die Bundeswehr stationiert ist, z.B. mit dem Gouverneur Mohammed Atta.
