Traduction de «Activiste en droits de la personne » (Français → Anglais) :

China's human rights record is dismal enough that the lastest crackdown on political opposition should not surprise, but there is a disturbing new element, human rights activists say: the government's total lack of reticence in going after even high-profile targets.The brazenness is a reflection of Beijing's increasing assertiveness in the international sphere and its calculation that there is little or no price to be paid in its relations with the United States or other nations for abusing its own citizens.

Dr. Yang stands today as a prominent human rights activist based in the United States, and works tirelessly for human rights in China still.

H. whereas violence against activists, particularly those defending women's rights, continues to this day, and whereas many activists have been the victims of militants and radical groups, these victims include Sitara Achakzai, an Afghan women's rights defender and member of the Kandahar provincial council, who was killed outside her home; Gul Pecha and Abdul Aziz, who were killed after being accused of immoral acts and condemned to death by a council of conservative cle ...[+++]rics; and Malai Kakar, the first woman police officer in Kandahar, who ran the police department responsible for investigating crimes against women in that city,

H. whereas violence against activists, particularly those defending women's rights, continues to this day, and whereas many activists have been the victims of militants and radical groups, these victims include Sitara Achakzai, an Afghan women's rights defender and member of the Kandahar provincial council, who was killed outside her home; Gul Pecha and Abdul Aziz, who were killed after being accused of immoral acts and condemned to death by a council of conservative cle ...[+++]rics; and Malai Kakar, the first woman police officer in Kandahar, who ran the police department responsible for investigating crimes against women in that city,

G. whereas progress in the area of freedom of expression is still far from satisfactory, presenting a mixed picture featuring certain positive developments, such as the recent acquittals of Professor Ibrahim Kaboglu and Professor Baskin Oran, prosecuted under Articles 216 and 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, and of the author Orhan Pamuk, while a number of human rights defenders are still being prosecuted and journalists and publishers continue to face trials, for example the journalist Hrant Dink, whose case, despite his acquittal by a court ruling, has been referred to the Court of Cassation, the journalist Perihan Mağden, charged under ...[+++]Article 118 of the Turkish Penal Code for "discouraging the people from military service", the journalist Murat Belge and others, such as the human rights activist Eren Keskin, have been sentenced; whereas the writer Perihan Mağden is currently being prosecuted because she is accused by the Turkish army of attempting to turn citizens against military service, on account of an article in which she noted that conscientious objection is a human right and recognised as such by all the EU Member States and the Council of Europe,

The Canadian government has repeatedly underlined, at senior levels, our concerns with Cuba's ongoing repression of human rights, and especially the imprisonment of human rights activists.