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» Sex Racket Rocks Srinagar

By News Team | Published 05/5/2006 | Human Rights | Rating:

Srinagar is a domicile for nature and its attractions of fauna and flora. It is housing power, politics, business, mosques, mandirs, gurdwaras and seats of learning.

It houses the four guns, namely, militant, renegade (former militant), Pakistani and the Indian guns at places known and strange. It houses 'peers' and 'mureeds' and keeps up a make believe semblance of a 'heaven' on earth.

Over a week it has thrown up a 'volcanic truth' that Srinagar harbours many dark secrets as well. The coming into light of a sex scandal should not come as a surprise. We live in a world of human situations of many variables. At times it is the other man that conditions his fellow human person for a life requiring to be a source of pleasure for the former and his associates in wanton pleasure.

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» Born a Prisoner

By News Team | Published 05/1/2006 | Human Rights | Rating:

Prisoner Samar Sbaih delivers her first baby "prisoner" Baraa while her legs and hands were cuffed at the Me'ir hospital in Isreal. The birth of prisoner Baraa has increased the number of baby prisoners in Israeli jails to three. The three children are being held along with their mothers under extremely difficult and unhealthy detention and nutritional conditions.

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» Is the UN ready for a woman?

By News Team | Published 04/14/2006 | Human Rights | Unrated

By Rina Jimenez-David

Following the practice of "regional rotation" in the choice of secretary general of the United Nations, it's now supposedly Asia's "turn" to have a representative chosen as head of the global body, to take the place of Kofi Annan. But no one, apparently, has given much thought that it might also be a woman's turn.

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» Questions and Answers on the Human Rights Council

By News Team | Published 04/15/2006 | Human Rights | Rating:

1. How many members will the new Human Rights Council have?

The new Council will consist of 47 members, as compared to the 53-member Commission on Human Rights.

2. How will members be elected?

Membership to the Council is open to all Member States of the United Nations. Members would be elected by the General Assembly through individual and direct votes by absolute majority (96 votes). The distribution of seats would be in accordance with equitable geographical representation (13 from the African Group; 13 from the Asian Group; 6 from the Eastern European Group; 8 from the Latin American and Caribbean Group; and 7 from the Western European and Other States Group). The members of the new Human Rights Council will be elected on 9 May 2006.

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