Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2178 Human Rights en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 17:27:39 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2178 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/un_food_rights_dc nm/20080509/un_food_rights_dc Reuters Fri, 09 May 2008 17:27:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/un_food_rights_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t062038_450x395_us_un_food_rights.jpg?x=130&y=114&q=85&sig=Ff03SziDDchDkkJneVjUnQ--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="A Palestinian rests on sacks of flour received from the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) headquarters at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza May 6, 2008. (Ismail Zaydah/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world's food crisis is undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/un_food_rights_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t062038_450x395_us_un_food_rights.jpg?x=130&y=114&q=85&sig=Ff03SziDDchDkkJneVjUnQ--" align="left" height="114" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian rests on sacks of flour received from the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) headquarters at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza May 6, 2008. (Ismail Zaydah/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_re_as/china_olympic_pardon ap/20080508/china_olympic_pardon AP Thu, 08 May 2008 18:31:13 GMT AP - With China's image battered by the turmoil over Tibet and the torch relay, a human rights activist is urging Chinese leaders to pardon long-jailed prisoners in a gesture that could help dispel the rancor surrounding the Beijing Olympics. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20080508/wl_oneworld/45361604531210305526 oneworld/20080508/45361604531210305526 OneWorld.net Thu, 08 May 2008 14:38:00 GMT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, May 8 (OneWorld) - More than 800 development and human rights activists are gathering here this week, developing and calling on Congress to implement new strategies to tackle world poverty and hunger. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/india_nm/india334712 nm/20080508/india334712 Reuters Thu, 08 May 2008 07:45:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/india_nm/india334712"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080508/i/ra2801426094.jpg?x=77&y=130&q=85&sig=_3UQ1cmKmOXqUGhJKykwMA--" align="left" height="130" width="77" alt="A soldier guards a street in Imphal in this picture taken August 24, 2004. Human rights workers in Manipur say they will hold a rally in the capital on Sunday to protest a government move to arm civilians in a decades-old battle with separatist insurgents. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Human rights workers in Manipur say they will hold a rally in the capital on Sunday to protest a government move to arm civilians in a decades-old battle with separatist insurgents.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/india_nm/india334712"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080508/i/ra2801426094.jpg?x=77&y=130&q=85&sig=_3UQ1cmKmOXqUGhJKykwMA--" align="left" height="130" width="77" alt="photo" title="A soldier guards a street in Imphal in this picture taken August 24, 2004. Human rights workers in Manipur say they will hold a rally in the capital on Sunday to protest a government move to arm civilians in a decades-old battle with separatist insurgents. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080506/wl_afp/unrightsvote afp/20080506/unrightsvote AFP Tue, 06 May 2008 22:53:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080506/wl_afp/unrightsvote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080506/capt.cps.nci93.070508005137.photo00.photo.default-512x382.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=z4IM7LZ9IK4bnA2pZSQ8gw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A view of the United Nations headquarters. Gabon, Bahrain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zambia do not deserve a seat on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations' top rights body, two non-governmental organizations said Tuesday.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Gabon, Bahrain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zambia do not deserve a seat on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations' top rights body, two non-governmental organizations said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080506/wl_afp/unrightsvote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080506/capt.cps.nci93.070508005137.photo00.photo.default-512x382.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=z4IM7LZ9IK4bnA2pZSQ8gw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="A view of the United Nations headquarters. Gabon, Bahrain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zambia do not deserve a seat on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations' top rights body, two non-governmental organizations said Tuesday.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_af/somalia_ethiopia ap/20080506/somalia_ethiopia AP Tue, 06 May 2008 10:42:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_af/somalia_ethiopia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndb73.090508204443.photo01.photo.default-394x512.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=IY3wiLe6_R0uvEOEKgneuw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Somalian Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein talks to reporters in February 2008. Somali government officials and exiled Islamist opposition leaders are to hold face-to-face peace talks in Djibouti, the United Nations special envoy to the country said Friday.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)" border="0" /></a>AP - A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people's throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_af/somalia_ethiopia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndb73.090508204443.photo01.photo.default-394x512.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=IY3wiLe6_R0uvEOEKgneuw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="Somalian Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein talks to reporters in February 2008. Somali government officials and exiled Islamist opposition leaders are to hold face-to-face peace talks in Djibouti, the United Nations special envoy to the country said Friday.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080506/wl_afp/perufujimoritrialoffbeat afp/20080506/perufujimoritrialoffbeat AFP Tue, 06 May 2008 00:59:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080506/wl_afp/perufujimoritrialoffbeat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080506/capt.cps.ncc41.060508025833.photo00.photo.default-397x512.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=_KanpA0AdyqMQ1igt2WCpw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is seen before the Special Court of the Peruvian Supreme Court in February. Fujimori went into a laughing fit during his trial for human rights abuses, when he heard Monday that his former military aides used to spy on him through the keyhole to see what he was wearing.(AFP/Poder Judicial/File/Francisco Medina)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Former president Alberto Fujimori went into a laughing fit during his trial for human rights abuses, when he heard Monday that his former military aides used to spy on him through the keyhole to see what he was wearing.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080506/wl_afp/perufujimoritrialoffbeat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080506/capt.cps.ncc41.060508025833.photo00.photo.default-397x512.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=_KanpA0AdyqMQ1igt2WCpw--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is seen before the Special Court of the Peruvian Supreme Court in February. Fujimori went into a laughing fit during his trial for human rights abuses, when he heard Monday that his former military aides used to spy on him through the keyhole to see what he was wearing.(AFP/Poder Judicial/File/Francisco Medina)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/wl_canada_nm/canada_colombia_trade_col nm/20080505/canada_colombia_trade_col Reuters Mon, 05 May 2008 20:50:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/wl_canada_nm/canada_colombia_trade_col"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080505/i/ra2038732590.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=VDBbC6Sur8F3UKK6usfp1Q--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="Canada's Trade Minister David Emerson speaks to journalists in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 5, 2008. REUTERS/Chris Wattie" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Canada is "very close" to concluding free trade negotiations with Colombia, Trade Minister David Emerson said on Monday, calling those opposed to the deal on human rights grounds as simply "dogmatic."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/wl_canada_nm/canada_colombia_trade_col"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080505/i/ra2038732590.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=VDBbC6Sur8F3UKK6usfp1Q--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="Canada's Trade Minister David Emerson speaks to journalists in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 5, 2008. REUTERS/Chris Wattie" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_eu/kosovo_organ_trafficking ap/20080505/kosovo_organ_trafficking AP Mon, 05 May 2008 18:37:34 GMT AP - A human rights group said Monday that new evidence has emerged to warrant further investigation into claims that ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo killed Serbs and sold their organs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080503/ts_nm/belarus_usa_dc nm/20080503/belarus_usa_dc Reuters Sat, 03 May 2008 12:43:52 GMT Reuters - Eleven U.S. diplomats have left Belarus after a row with the tightly controlled former Soviet state over human rights and sanctions, an embassy representative said on Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20080503/wl_oneworld/45361603471209785203 oneworld/20080503/45361603471209785203 OneWorld.net Sat, 03 May 2008 02:22:56 GMT OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (OneWorld) - The global food crisis is likely to persist if speculative investment by the corporate world is not reined in soon, warned a top expert responsible for reporting to the United Nations on human rights violations. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_mideast_afp/saudirightsaward afp/20080502/saudirightsaward AFP Fri, 02 May 2008 20:22:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_mideast_afp/saudirightsaward"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbm40.020508222233.photo00.photo.default-299x183.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=NVOuCkgo_b7eHCSVqHMV3w--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="A Saudi lawyer and human rights activist who is banned from travelling abroad has received the International Human Rights Lawyer Award from the American Bar Association (ABA), he told AFP Friday.(ABA)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A Saudi lawyer and human rights activist who is banned from travelling abroad has received the International Human Rights Lawyer Award from the American Bar Association (ABA), he told AFP Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_mideast_afp/saudirightsaward"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbm40.020508222233.photo00.photo.default-299x183.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=NVOuCkgo_b7eHCSVqHMV3w--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Saudi lawyer and human rights activist who is banned from travelling abroad has received the International Human Rights Lawyer Award from the American Bar Association (ABA), he told AFP Friday.(ABA)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/india_nm/india333746 nm/20080502/india333746 Reuters Fri, 02 May 2008 19:17:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/india_nm/india333746"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080502/i/ra3717191796.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2tRQXFaWyRJNXpBSzi.EkQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.N. peacekeepers in an armoured personnel carrier keep watch over downtown streets in Congo's capital Kinshasa in this March 22, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Joe Bavier" border="0" /></a>Reuters - United Nations investigators "ignored, minimized or shelved" allegations of serious abuses committed by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Congo, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/india_nm/india333746"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080502/i/ra3717191796.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2tRQXFaWyRJNXpBSzi.EkQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.N. peacekeepers in an armoured personnel carrier keep watch over downtown streets in Congo's capital Kinshasa in this March 22, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Joe Bavier" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_sthasia_afp/undrcongoprobeindiapakistan afp/20080502/undrcongoprobeindiapakistan AFP Fri, 02 May 2008 15:48:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_sthasia_afp/undrcongoprobeindiapakistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbk95.020508174805.photo00.photo.default-512x324.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=K19EOvT4fZVMi2tUTBRMAw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A United Nations guard looks out of the gates of UN Divisional headquarters in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2007. Human Rights Watch has renewed charges that the United Nations ignored or shelved serious allegations of misconduct by UN Pakistani and Indian peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)(AFP/File/Don Emmert)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Human Rights Watch on Friday renewed charges that the United Nations ignored or shelved serious allegations of misconduct by UN Pakistani and Indian peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_sthasia_afp/undrcongoprobeindiapakistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbk95.020508174805.photo00.photo.default-512x324.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=K19EOvT4fZVMi2tUTBRMAw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A United Nations guard looks out of the gates of UN Divisional headquarters in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2007. Human Rights Watch has renewed charges that the United Nations ignored or shelved serious allegations of misconduct by UN Pakistani and Indian peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)(AFP/File/Don Emmert)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/india_nm/india333683 nm/20080502/india333683 Reuters Fri, 02 May 2008 13:01:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/india_nm/india333683"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080502/i/ra2960013743.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=3lrOU85zij.St5c.ehpiHQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="An activist from Amnesty International takes part in a performance of a hanging during a demonstration for "World Day Against the Death Penalty" on a street in Lima October 10, 2007. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Amnesty International said on Friday that India should abolish the death penalty after hundreds of cases examined by the human rights group revealed "fatal flaws" in the country's judicial system.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/india_nm/india333683"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080502/i/ra2960013743.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=3lrOU85zij.St5c.ehpiHQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="An activist from Amnesty International takes part in a performance of a hanging during a demonstration for "World Day Against the Death Penalty" on a street in Lima October 10, 2007. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_re_as/olympic_torch ap/20080502/olympic_torch AP Fri, 02 May 2008 16:30:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_re_as/olympic_torch"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080502/capt.c6e4149983374320900eee3b3c70e87b.hong_kong_olympic_torch_xvy110.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=0AjsVLKqvV5uaZYZqOiipg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Torch relay runner, Hong Kong actor Andy Lau runs past cheering Chinese as he is surrounded by security personnel and police officers during the Olympic torch relay in a downtown street in Hong Kong Friday, May 2, 2008. The eight-hour relay through canyons of skyscrapers was expected to be a big challenge for Hong Kong 's leaders and police. The torch is finally back on Chinese soil, and Beijing wants no repeat of the protests and chaos that dogged the flame during its 20-nation overseas tour. (AP Photo/Melanie Ko)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hong Kong's near flawless Olympic torch relay Friday might help ease Beijing's suspicions that the former British colony doesn't love the Chinese motherland enough.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_re_as/olympic_torch"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080502/capt.c6e4149983374320900eee3b3c70e87b.hong_kong_olympic_torch_xvy110.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=0AjsVLKqvV5uaZYZqOiipg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Torch relay runner, Hong Kong actor Andy Lau runs past cheering Chinese as he is surrounded by security personnel and police officers during the Olympic torch relay in a downtown street in Hong Kong Friday, May 2, 2008. The eight-hour relay through canyons of skyscrapers was expected to be a big challenge for Hong Kong 's leaders and police. The torch is finally back on Chinese soil, and Beijing wants no repeat of the protests and chaos that dogged the flame during its 20-nation overseas tour. (AP Photo/Melanie Ko)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_afp/chinaunresttibetrightsoly2008hongkong afp/20080502/chinaunresttibetrightsoly2008hongkong AFP Fri, 02 May 2008 11:52:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_afp/chinaunresttibetrightsoly2008hongkong"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbi93.020508134043.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=zMwq1AzPrBwGKBfGf7CPSw--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Hong Kong's only Olympic gold medallist, windsurfer Lee Lai Shan, begins the torch relay in Hong Kong. The Olympic torch made a trouble-free journey through the streets of Hong Kong, kicking off the final Chinese leg of a worldwide journey marred by angry protests over Tibet and democracy.(AFP/Mike Clarke)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Olympic torch made a trouble-free journey through the streets of Hong Kong on Friday, kicking off the final Chinese leg of a worldwide journey marred by angry protests over Tibet and democracy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080502/wl_afp/chinaunresttibetrightsoly2008hongkong"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080502/capt.cps.nbi93.020508134043.photo00.photo.default-354x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=zMwq1AzPrBwGKBfGf7CPSw--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="Hong Kong's only Olympic gold medallist, windsurfer Lee Lai Shan, begins the torch relay in Hong Kong. The Olympic torch made a trouble-free journey through the streets of Hong Kong, kicking off the final Chinese leg of a worldwide journey marred by angry protests over Tibet and democracy.(AFP/Mike Clarke)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_human_rights ap/20080501/syria_human_rights AP Thu, 01 May 2008 18:25:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_human_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.6a3ff2c6d6104bfbbe6fede8ec7f6d65.lebanon_beirut_gfx215.jpg?x=130&y=107&q=85&sig=blBRtHiidCBeAxCQiGOplQ--" align="left" height="107" width="130" alt="Map locates Beirut neighborhoods taken by Hezbollah and retaken by the army; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76.2 mm" border="0" /></a>AP - One of Syria's most prominent pro-democracy activists won an Irish award Thursday for his work trying to promote human rights for prisoners, political parties and journalists in his homeland.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_human_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.6a3ff2c6d6104bfbbe6fede8ec7f6d65.lebanon_beirut_gfx215.jpg?x=130&y=107&q=85&sig=blBRtHiidCBeAxCQiGOplQ--" align="left" height="107" width="130" alt="photo" title="Map locates Beirut neighborhoods taken by Hezbollah and retaken by the army; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76.2 mm" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_dirty_war_witness ap/20080501/argentina_dirty_war_witness AP Thu, 01 May 2008 15:31:23 GMT AP - A human rights activist whose disappearance prompted an intense government manhunt was released by his captors after being tied up and beaten, he said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians ap/20080430/israel_palestinians AP Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:52:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080429/capt.f5c7edc91fa14318bddbb83e05a1aa66.mideast_israel_palestinians__jrl114.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Z9UkVkq3pfyX2TVAU1_P4A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Palestinians look on as they observe the damage at the house of the Abu Meatak family hit by an Israeli shell that killed a mother and her four children, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blamed Gaza's Hamas rulers Tuesday for the deaths of a Palestinian mother and four of her children during a skirmish between Israeli troops and Gaza gunmen. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)" border="0" /></a>AP - An Israeli human rights group called Wednesday for a criminal probe into the deaths of a Gaza mother and her four preschool children, saying Israel appears to have violated international law by firing a missile at militants close to the family's home, despite high risk of harming civilians.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080429/capt.f5c7edc91fa14318bddbb83e05a1aa66.mideast_israel_palestinians__jrl114.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Z9UkVkq3pfyX2TVAU1_P4A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Palestinians look on as they observe the damage at the house of the Abu Meatak family hit by an Israeli shell that killed a mother and her four children, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blamed Gaza's Hamas rulers Tuesday for the deaths of a Palestinian mother and four of her children during a skirmish between Israeli troops and Gaza gunmen. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)