Stories of Human Abuse and Human being in wretched plight all around the World

We raised our voices and they released him!‏ vOICE FOR Raul's release in my earlier post http://albertashokpaintings.blogspot.com/2010/05/voice-for-rauls-release.html ¡Raul is free! "I want to thank Amnesty International and the people of many countries who worked for my freedom.” Raul speaking after his release to Alberto Herrera, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mexico. We’re really pleased to be able to write to you with some amazing news! Raúl Hernández, the Mexican indigenous rights activist and prisoner of conscience, has been released from prison after over two years. The fabricated charges against him have been dropped. ...

Courtesy : Washington post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090900874.html Boulder Wildfire Destroys Buildings; Hundreds Of Homes Evacuated First Posted: 09- 6-10 DENVER (AP) — Firefighters ramped up their fight Tuesday against a 3,500-acre wildfire that has forced about 3,000 people to evacuate and destroyed dozens of homes near Boulder, including some that belonged to firefighters. Calmer winds were in the forecast and authorities planned to dump two to three times the amount of fire retardant from the air than they did Monday, when gusty winds grounded air tankers for much of the day, Boulder County sheriff's Cmdr. Rick Brough said. Calmer winds were in the forecast and authorities planned to dump two to three times the amount of fire retardant f...

A woman makes her way over debris from a quake-damaged building in Christchurch, New Zealand. A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck 20 miles west of Christchurch early Saturday, triggering no immediate reports of casualties but causing widespread damage, authorities said. (Carys Monteath/the Press) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6823Q420100903 By Gyles Beckford Fri Sep 3, 2010 7:42pm EDT WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city Christchurch early on Saturday, bringing down power lines, ripping up roads and wrecking building facades, but authorities reported no deaths. Authorities declared a formal civil defense state of emergency to coordinate recovery operations in the city, which has a population of about 350,000 people, after facades collapsed into streets, crushing cars and blocking roads. Two men suffered serious injuries and police closed off the central business district. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1 and a depth...

Sign by Sept 10th to deliver your signature to UN Summit‏ Use your rights to end poverty More than 1 billion people across all continents live in slums . More than half a million women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth – one every minute. Every day, in every region of the world, people living in poverty are discriminated against – whether through individual acts of others, or institutional discrimination by the state. We have documented human rights violations that deepen poverty. It is human rights violations that lead to discrimination, exclusion, maternal deaths, eviction from homes, segregation in schoo...

WIRE alert: human rights news from around the world The Democratic Republic of the Congo is marks its 50th anniversary. What does the future hold for human rights in this war-torn country? Read the article and look at some stunning photographs by award-winning photographer Cédric Gerbehaye Also in this issue of WIRE [PDF]: Brazil's Indigenous communities pushed out of their lands and into poverty Families of victims of enforced disappearance fight for justice Why does Amnesty International object to the ban on the full-face veil? Above Shiite Muslim women attend the festival of Ashouna, Iraq ...

Save poor class of this planet from illegal usurers and suicide This article is written for people use Bengali language . The topic is " Indian Poor class and Micro finance" . Self help group, Grameen Bank (GB) ,Community based financial systems (CBFS) , NGOs in micro-finance whatever their name may be they should change their policy for Poverty Alleviation. otherwise Poor will remain as poor at the mercy of suicide. The article, in three parts, this is third part. Second part : http://albertashokpaintings.blogspot.com/2010/08/quicksand-of-debt.html First part : http://albertashokpaintings.blogspot.com/2010/07/micro-finance-and-indian-poor-class.html I request people working for 'Demand and Dignity' a campaign launched by Amnesty International should read these three parts. Indian people -- those are in poor class and lower middle class are being trapped and ruined by the personal loan taken from local usurers with interest ranging 10% to 6...

This is second part of : মাইক্রো ফিনান্স ও ভারতীয় দরিদ্রশ্রেণী Micro finance and Indian Poor class read first part in this blog : http://albertashokpaintings.blogspot.com/2010/07/micro-finance-and-indian-poor-class.html This article is written for people use Bengali language . The topic is " Indian Poor class and Micro finance" . Self help group, Grameen Bank (GB) ,Community based financial systems (CBFS) , NGOs in micro-finance whatever their name may be they should change their policy for Poverty Alleviation. otherwise Poor will be at the mercy of suicide. The article will be finished in three part, this is first part. I request people working for 'Demand and Dignity' a campaign launched by Amnesty International should read these three parts. Indian people -- those are in poor class and lower middle class are being trapped and ruined by the personal loan taken from local usurers with interest ranging 10% to 60% monthly , in market place, poor ...

Ratna started working as a domestic worker at the age of 13. Her employer initially told her that her salary would be 350,000 Indonesian Rupiahs (around US38) per month. But what she got instead was just half that amount for a seven-day work week from five am until midnight. Ratna was not allowed to take any breaks and was only allowed to go out once a week to hang the clothes out to dry. She slept on the hard kitchen floor and was locked in every night, supposedly for her own protection. This meant she couldn’t even go to the toilet at night. She also lost contact with her family because she was not allowed to make phone calls or send letters. No protection under law There are nearly 2.6 million women domestic workers, like Ratna, in Indonesia. They are not protected by current legislation safeguarding workers' rights. They are subjected to economic expl...

This article is written for people use Bengali language . The topic is " Indian Poor class and Micro finance" . Self help group, Grameen Bank (GB) ,Community based financial systems (CBFS) , NGOs in micro-finance whatever their name may be they should change their policy for Poverty Alleviation. otherwise Poor will be at the mercy of suicide. The article will be finished in three part, this is first part. I request people working for 'Demand and Dignity' a campaign launched by Amnesty International should read these three parts. Indian people -- those are in poor class and lower middle class are being trapped and ruined by the personal loan taken from local usurers with interest ranging 10% to 60% monthly , in market place, poor vegetable vendors take loans amounting Rs. 100/ to Rs. 500/ at 10% interest rate per day . Anyway, stop these private practices and give poor and weak people a constitutional legal support to fight these unlawful acts /cases and make ...

Killing for 'honour' Soutik Biswas | 04:31 UK time, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 You can get killed for falling in love in many parts of India. Especially, if you or your lover - and sometimes, spouse - "defy" the preordained rules of the country's fiendishly complex caste system . You can invoke the ire of your family and community and get killed if you marry within your caste, outside your caste, within your sub-caste and so on. You can also get killed for marrying outside your religion. For many years, urban Indians believed such "honour killings" only happened in remote rural areas, mainly in the northern states of Haryana, Punjab and parts of Uttar Pradesh. Now, they are being reported from the capital Delhi - two couples and a girl in the past week alone. At least 26 others have been killed in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh in the past 18 ...