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US Government Stalls on Visa for Colombian Activist
Delays Could Prevent Activist from Being Present to Receive Human Rights Award
Gonzalez was chosen by Human Rights First for the 2009 Human Rights Award in recognition of his courageous defense of human rights in Colombia. He will be honored at an event hosted by legendary newsman Tom Brokaw. Instead of being part of the celebration [...]
Pro democracy activists tried in Vietnam by Hanoi Authorities
On October 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2009, the Hanoi authorities have tried these pro-democracy activists including writer Nguyen Xuan Nghia, Mr. Ngo Quynh, Mr. Nguyen Manh Son, Mr. Nguyen Van Tinh, Mr. Nguyen Van Tuc, Mr. Nguyen Kim Nhan in Hai Phong and Mr. Pham Van Troi, teacher Vu Hung and poet Tran Duc [...]
Local government spending £Millions resisting fair wages for all
Millions of pounds of council taxpayers’ money is being spent on fighting legal battles to stop low paid women winning equal pay.
Local authorities are spending up to £1.3m each on private barristers’ and solicitors’ fees and up to £1.2m on their own staff’s time attempting to resist the fight for fair wages.
A survey of 50 [...]
UN/WMO Whistleblower Awarded Nearly $500,000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Edward P. Flaherty, Esq., Schwab, Flaherty & Associés, Geneva, Switzerland
Telephone Number: +4122 840 5000
Fax Number: +4122 840 5055; Email Address: Flaherty@sfalegal.com
Web site address: www.iowatch.org ; www.unreform-now.org
WMO Whistleblower Awarded Nearly $500,000
UN Weather Office Found to have Harassed, Defamed and Wrongfully Terminated Chief Internal Auditor
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND; 7 October [...]
New Book: Strange Misfortunes– Heartbreaking stories about corrupt governments, the unfair treatment of women, and the woes of a soldier.
Strange Misfortunes covers a broad range of fictional and non-fictional themes that are based on human struggles, beliefs and experiences. This book is a collection of short stories, conveying some of our weaknesses, and telling of the extent to which those with evil desires will go to get what they strongly desire. Through a blend [...]
Preferred candidate for post of Children’s Commissioner announced
The Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls has today written to the Chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee to invite him to hold a pre-appointment hearing with Maggie Atkinson, who he has nominated to be the next Children’s Commissioner when Sir Al Aynsley-Green comes to the end of his five year appointment on 28 [...]
UK organisations will save £1billion and more than 4MtCO2 each year by 2020
The final details of the Government’s scheme to save organisations money on fuel bills and to reduce carbon emissions have been unveiled today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme is a new regulatory incentive to improve energy efficiency in large public and private sector organisations. Large energy [...]
GCHQ: our Intelligence and Security mission in the Internet age
GCHQ is one of the three UK Intelligence Agencies and a part of the UK’s National Intelligence Machinery. GCHQ works in partnership with the Security Service (also known as MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6) to protect the UK’s national security interests.
GCHQ has two important missions: Signals Intelligence and Information Assurance. [...]
OPINION: Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case
Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot
Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case
http://lpcyu.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2992783-irrefutable-proof-the-hague-court-
cannot-legitimately-prosecute-karadzic-case
War crimes tribunals are only as effective as they are true tools of international social
justice for bearing genuine historical record.If anyone doubts what I am saying,
reexamine the political show trials of both Jesus and Socrates.
In the case of Dr Karadzic currently in [...]
Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC: “Internal DoD Analyses” Referenced in Bid to Kill Boeing C-17 Don’t Exist
GAO and Congressionally Dismissed 2005 Mobility Capabilities Study (MCS) and 2006 QDR Airlift Section Developed by Pentagon Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Only Data in Existence; DoD Efforts Against C-17 Described as ‘Intellectual’ Assault; Reiterates Position No Credible Study Exists to Support DoD Contention That Aircraft in Operation and Ordered Are Sufficient to [...]
