July 1, 2009
Group points to “horrific” rights violations in Iraqi prisons…
Iraqi prisoners are being tortured and sexually abused, said a senior human rights official.
Fawziya al-Jashami said she had seen “horrific traces” of torture during a visit to a prison in the southern Province of Babel of which Hilla is the capital.
“I saw types of torture which are so vicious and horrific that I cannot describe [...]
July 1, 2009
Israel Attacks Gaza-bound Aid Ship, Kidnaps Activists…
A Gaza-bound ship carrying aid to the strip was attacked and captured by the Israeli Navy today, and the 21 activists on the boat are being held as captives by the Israeli government at an undisclosed location. According to the ground that sponsored the voyage, the Israeli government has also confiscated the medicine and other [...]
July 1, 2009
British Army faces 20 more abuse claims from Iraqi civilians…
The British Army faces 20 fresh claims of torture and abuse of Iraqi civilians in a series of damaging cases being prepared by human rights lawyers in the High Court in London.
These new claims lend support to the accusation that the ill-treatment of scores of detainees in Iraq in the first four years after the [...]
July 1, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 800 civilians killed in conflict in January-May – UN report…
KABUL, (IRIN) – Civilian deaths resulting from armed hostilities between insurgents, the US military, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and government forces have increased by 24 percent so far this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to a report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
In May alone, 261 non-combatants lost [...]
July 1, 2009
Africa alone could feed the world…
DOOM-MONGERS have got it wrong – there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most of it can be grown in Africa, say two international reports published this week.
The first, projecting 10 years into the future from last year’s food crisis, [...]
July 1, 2009
$2,000 for a Dead Afghan Child, $100,000 for Any American Who Died Killing it…
After Obama apologized for the strike which the Afghan government claimed killed well over a hundred ordinary country folk, came the report that the families of those killed, and subsequent Afghani dead falling in harms way of the US military, continuing as before, can apply to receive up to $2,000 compensation. This is the price [...]
July 1, 2009
Bomb kills 32 in Iraq as U.S. troops leave…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Hours after U.S. troops handed over control of Iraq’s cities to its domestic security forces, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 100 on Tuesday, police said.
The blast tore through a busy market in a largely Kurdish part of the city, [...]
