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1. India closes refugee camp for expelled Christians Sharp criticism of insufficient protection for pogrom victims in India   The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has sharply criticised the decision of the Indian authorities to close all refugee camps for expelled Christians in the federal state of Orissa. "The Indian…  
Date: 03-09-09
2. Civil war escalating -- Europe must work for peace!   The civilian population in southern Thailand is suffering increasingly from the escalating civil war. This was pointed out by the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) on Friday. "In the past ten…  
Date: 08-09-09
3. Arbitrariness of the vice squad infringes peace agreement and human rights   The continuation of the "Trousers case” against the Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein in Khartoum today, Monday, has been criticised sharply by the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfnV) as…  
Date: 08-09-09
4. Vigil for the Indian human rights activist: Please give Leonard Peltier his freedom, President Obama!   The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) will be holding a demonstration this Friday (11.9.2009) at the Pariser Platz near the US Embassy for the release of the seriously ill Indian civil rights…  
Date: 08-09-09
5. Innocent journalist who was sentenced to death free at last!   It is with great relief that the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) learned on Monday of the release of the Afghan journalist Parvez Kambakhsh. The human rights organisation regretted however…  
Date: 08-09-09
6. Two years after the rising of the monks Burma’s military junta increases pressure on Buddhist monks   A few days before the second anniversary of the bloody crushing of the rising of the monks in Burma (25.09) the military junta has increased its pressure on the Buddhist monasteries. This was…  
Date: 14-09-09
7. Mosul - Iraq: Kurdish villagers set up barriers against attackers   Kurdish villagers near the north Iraqi town of Mosul in the province of Nineveh are setting up security barriers outside their villages for fear of attacks. "People have lost trust in the provincial…  
Date: 14-09-09
8. 65th birthday of Leonard Peltier: Human rights campaign outside US Embassy in Berlin: Indian civil rights activist, an innocent man in prison for 33 years – Please grant Leonard Peltier his freedom, President Obama!   With a symbolic almost man-high birthday-cake made of papier maché the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) appealed on Friday for the 65th birthday of Leonard Peltier in Berlin to President Obama…  
Date: 14-09-09
9. Fine for former spokesperson of Carla del Ponte, Florence Hartmann, is an "unbearable offence to the Srebrenica survivors”   The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has termed the sentence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague against the former spokesperson of the former…  
Date: 16-09-09
10. Give their freedom at last to 280,000 Tamil civilians! Human rights activists set up refugee tent at the Brandenburger Tor: Europe must speak out for the closure of the internment camps in Sri Lanka!   With the setting up of a fenced-in symbolic refugee tent in the centre of Berlin the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) protested on Tuesday together with Tamil refugees against the internment of…  
Date: 16-09-09
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