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LEAD POISONING OF ROMA IN IDP CAMPS IN KOSOVO
In 1999, on behalf of the Society for Threatened People (SFTP), a team was sent to and established in Kosovo in order to investigate on the situation of human rights among the local Roma, Ashkali, and „Egyptian” minorities. Since then, our team has been documenting in detailed reports the deplorable conditions in which these people have to live. Specifically, the SFTP is most alarmed by the issue of lead poisoning threatening the health and the lives of Roma, Ashkali, and „Egyptian” settled on Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps.
Kolumbien: Zur Lage der Menschenrechte bei den Ureinwohnern
Die Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) ist sehr besorgt über die Zukunft der indianischen und afro-kolumbianischen Völker in Kolumbien. Ihre Menschenrechte werden noch immer extrem gering geschätzt. Die Militarisierung…
Rassismus ist in Australien auch heute noch lebendig. Dies betonte die australische Kommission für Menschenrechte und Gleichstellung (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; HREOC) im Juli 2001 auf ihrem Vorbereitungstreffen in Cairns zur Weltkonferenz gegen Rassismus (World Conference against Racism) der UNO in Durban (Südafrika). Zwar wurde Anfang der 1990er Jahre ein Versöhnungsprozess…
Völker ohne Staat finden ihren Platz beim Bund der Staaten
Als „Schritt in Richtung Anerkennung unseres Rechts auf Selbstbestimmung“ bewertete Willie Littlechild von der Cree Nation, eines der acht Indigenen Mitglieder des Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues PFII, dessen Gründungssitzung im Mai 2002. „Wir werden innerhalb des Permanenten Forums auf gleicher Ebene…
On 5 September 1999 Russian armed forces launched a new bombing campaign against the small Caucasian republic of Chechnya. The campaign began three months before elections to the Russian State Duma are due on 19.12.1999. Russia is waging this war on the pretext of combatting alleged „terrorism“. The horrific bombings…
Kurds, Christians, Jews and Bahá-í: persecuted and oppressed in the Middle East
The frantic investigations into the terrible attacks in New York and Washington suggest not only connections to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan. There seem to be trails leading to Saddam Hussein as well. Because Iraq’s dictator considers the USA to be arch-enemy No. 1. At the latest since his occupying forces have been kicked out of Kuwait by American and Allied units in 1991. At the time, Northern Iraq which is populated by Kurds and Assyrian-Aramaic Christians, had been declared a protected zone. A catastrophe was averted at the last minute…
Uzbekistan: Religious Muslims are facing harsh sentences
In September 2001 the US-State Department has withheld its report on the global situation of religious freedom out of diplomatic consideration. Good terms with prospective partners in the anti-terror coalition were not to be endangered. Especially Uzbekistan had to be spared after the terrible attacks in New York and Washington. Because due to the strategic proximity of two large military airbases to the Afghan border great significance is attached to this central Asian country.
Expelled and Impoverished – India’s Native Inhabitants
India’s native inhabitants („Adivasi“) are fighting to survive. Often pushed off of their land because of industrial projects, they are losing access to their traditional resources. India’s industrialists…
