PRESS RELEASE
19 June 2012
The world-renowned author, Alice Walker, has refused an Israeli company, Yediot Books, from publishing her award winning novel, The Color Purple, citing Israel's "apartheid policies". In a letter dated 09 June 2012, Walker says:
RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 JUNE 2012: As government representatives start formal negotiations in Brazil to seek agreements on so-called ‘green economy’ policies and to assess progress in fulfilling commitments on environment and development made at the Rio Earth Summit twenty years ago, indigenous people
On June 18, a Pan-African delegation will deliver a petition to The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the International Criminal Court prosecute the US, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and NATO for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To you at whose side we struggle,
(NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 2012) – The pardon by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea of Dr.
(The taster video illustrates the fervour and campaigning in Uganda that accompanied the proposal of the Anti-Gay Bill.)
Dear Secretary-General,
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) was most encouraged to hear of your recent visit to The Gambia. We write to emphasise our concern at the human rights situation there and urge you to maintain constructive engagement with President Yahya Jammeh.