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December 29, Arab League monitors were dispatched to three more Syrian hotspots Thursday to ensure government forces were complying with a peace plan. This comes a day after the team was met by crowds of anti-government protesters in the city of Homs.
Source: France 24
http://www.france24.com/en/20111229-syria-arab-league-observers-protests-peac...
December 29, An Amsterdam court has ruled that three witnesses from the Democratic Republic of Congo appearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague must be given the right to apply for refugee status in the Netherlands.
Source : RNW
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/icc-witnesses-can-apply-asylum-says-court
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December 29, A former lawyer and veteran activist left disabled by police mistreatment has gone on trial in Beijing, the third dissident in a week to be prosecuted as China continues its crackdown to deter popular uprisings like the ones that shook the Arab world.
Source: The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/29/china-trial-activist-ni-yulan
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21 December , There is an escalating pattern of physical attacks by Egyptian military and police officers against women and male protesters, journalists, and activists in Cairo, some of which are sexual in nature, Human Rights Watch said today. News reports and images of protestors in Cairo being stripped, beaten, and dragged through the street in the past several days are just the latest incidents.
Source: Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/21/egypt-prosecute-sexual-assaults-protesters
Nearly 60 stakeholders representing international organizations, local NGOs, Embassies and government entities gathered together to launch the Women’s Participation Program funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Sources: News.Az
http://www.news.az/articles/society/51390
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December 21, Just a few days into the making of a new intergovernmental treaty on fiscal discipline, serious questions are being raised about whether the slight draft offered to date is either useful or necessary.
By Honor Mahony
Source: Euobserver
http://euobserver.com/843/114698
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21 December - UN war-crimes prosecutors rejected a request to probe the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, but said an investigation is possible in the future, CNN said on Wednesday.
By Ria Novosti
Source: Eurasia review
16 December, the France-based Association of “Human rights in the Central Asia” has received a huge amount of complaints filed by citizens of Kyrgyzstan of Uzbek ethnic origin, reporting all kinds of violation of their rights committed by the law enforcement and investigative bodies.
Source: Ferghana News Information Agency
December 16, There is no immunity for sitting Presidents in international law as far as international crimes are concerned, the ICC ruled earlier this week in a quiet but historic decision which also trashed the African Union resolutions on the matter.
By Nzau Musau
Source: allAfrica.com
16 December 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today said the United States is committed to combat intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief. She emphasized that restricting the practice of anyone's faith is a threat to the human rights of all individuals. She said communities of faith are not confined by geopolitical borders.
By M. Fabulous
Source: Newsblaze
http://newsblaze.com/story/20111215152133mina.nb/topstory.html
