Mission for Peace and Justice in Nepal

07/04/2015

The aid-industrial complex is in dire need of overhaul

05/25/2015

Dear friends, support our Nepal mission for earthquake victims by donating through this link. Your money will save many lives in Nepal.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-lives-in-nepal-act-now-for-earthquake-relief--2/x/10837715

05/24/2015

Nepal has been badly affected by the two major earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks. More than 8500 people died, 20,000 injured and 3 million displaced. Nepal Rural Health and Education Project is now providing relief directly in the most affected areas. NRHEP is currently working with a field team of several Nepali medics and health professionals providing assistance to Dolakha, Kavre, Sindhupalchok, Ramechapp and Solukhumbu districts, some of the hardest hit rural areas of Nepal. They are providing medicine, basic medical care, food, and water purification tools to people with the greatest need, prioritizing malnourished,sick and injured children. For details, visit our website http://www.nepalaction.org

12/16/2014

The United Nations has delivered landmark decisions by giving justice to three conflict-era victims in Nepal. The decisions, rendered by one of the most prominent international human rights bodies, the UN Human Rights Committee, sends a message of hope to the families of all victims of enforced disappearances and torture in the country.

Voice for Justice and Human Rights न्याय र मानव अधिकारको लागि समर्पित

11/23/2014

Two retired Chilean colonels have been jailed for repeatedly torturing the father of President Michelle Bachelet in 1973.General Alberto Bachelet was arrested and tortured for opposing the military coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet.He died in 1974 of a heart attack caused by the torture inflicted on him. The former air force colonels - Ramon Caceres Jorquera and Edgar Ceballos Jones - were given three and two years in prison respectively.

Two retired Chilean colonels - Ramon Caceres and Edgar Cevallos - are jailed for torturing the father of President Michelle Bachelet in 1973.

10/26/2014

The US urges an investigation after an Palestinian-American teenager is shot dead by Israeli soldiers near Ramallah in the West Bank.

10/25/2014

The Polish government has appealed a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that the country violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by transferring them to a so-called “black site” in northeast Poland run by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.
Details on New York times

The court ruled that Poland violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by allowing their transfer to a secret detention center run by the C.I.A.

10/25/2014

An ex-police chief and ex-interior minister of Argentina have both been given life sentences for running a detention and torture centre in the 1970s. They were among 19 people charged with the kidnap, murder and torture of 128 prisoners in the city of La Plata. The detention centre also functioned as a maternity unit for pregnant prisoners who gave birth before being executed. Tens of thousands of Argentines were kidnapped or killed by the military junta between 1976 and 1983.

An Argentine ex-police chief and ex-interior minister are among 15 people given life sentences for involvement in a torture centre in the 1970s.

10/23/2014

Israel’s seven weeks of attacks this summer on heavily populated civilian neighborhoods in Gaza has led to unprecedented concern among Americans who, while still broadly supportive of Israel, found the attacks to be disproportionate and unnecessary.
Stephen Zunes writes in Counter Punch, an independent investigative Journal.

Gaza and the Bi-Partisan War on Human Rights

10/23/2014

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh said she would protest outside the Iranian Bar Association offices in Tehran until it reversed a decision to ban her from practicing law for three years. Sotoudeh was sentenced to six years in jail in 2010 and banned from practice after being convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. Her case came to international attention in 2012 when she embarked on a 50-day hunger strike against a travel ban on her daughter.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh said on Wednesday she would protest outside the Iranian Bar Association offices in Tehran until it reversed a decision to ban her from practicing law

10/22/2014

Seven years after American security contractors killed 14 unarmed Iraqis by firing machine guns and grenades into a Baghdad traffic circle, a jury in Washington on Wednesday convicted four Blackwater Worldwide guards of murder and manslaughter charges in the incident, one of the most ignominious chapters of the Iraq war.

Four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors were convicted Wednesday on charges stemming from a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.

10/22/2014

Members of the UN Human Rights Committee quizzed an Israeli delegation on Monday about Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Among the issues reviewed were "price-tag attacks," access to water, housing demolitions, the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land.

Members of the UN Human Rights Committee quizzed an Israeli delegation on Monday about Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestine's Quds Net News Agency reported.Among the issues review