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Violence Against Women Officially Declared a Human Rights Violation "The
United Nations released a report late last week officially classifying violence
against women as a human rights violation, increasing pressure on states in the
UN to intensify and improve systems in place for handling violence against
women....The release of the UN report coincides with the publication of the most
comprehensive and systematic study of international domestic violence by the
World Health Organization (WHO). At 13 out of the 15 sites studied, more than 25
percent of women said they had experienced moderate to severe domestic violence
in the last year. At six of the 15 sites, over 50 percent of women had
experienced a moderate to severe level of domestic violence. The study found
that rural Ethiopia had the highest rate of domestic violence, with 71 percent
of women experiencing violence in the home. Yokohama, Japan had the lowest rate
at 15 percent. Close to 25,000 women were interviewed in ten countries for the
WHO study." http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9921
this one fwd from L Moss Sharman
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/10/09/international/i104334D71.DTL German Tells Court CIA Kidnapped Him By MAR ROMAN, Associated Press Writer Monday, October 9, 2006 (10-09) 10:43 PDT MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A German citizen testified Monday in a Spanish court that he was kidnapped and tortured by U.S. intelligence agents in 2003, then flown by the CIA to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and abused for five months. Khaled al-Masri, 43, broke down in tears several times during his testimony before National Court Judge Ismael Moreno, who is investigating reports that the CIA used a Spanish airport to secretly transfer suspected terrorists to countries where they were tortured. Earlier this year, the Kuwaiti-born al-Masri testified before German lawmakers and a European Parliament panel, but his lawyer, Ignasi Ribas, said "this time he has said it before a judge, and that is important." Al-Masri, a former car salesman and a father of five, said he was abducted on Dec. 31, 2003, at the Serbia-Macedonia border while on vacation. He said he was taken to a hotel in the Macedonian capital of Skopje where he was imprisoned and tortured for 23 days before being flown to Kabul, Afghanistan. Al-Masri's lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic, said documents show the plane, a Boeing 737, that took al-Masri from Macedonia to Afghanistan in January 2004 originally came from Algeria via Mallorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean. Al-Masri said his captors — whom he identified as North Americans and one German — accused him at one stage of having been at an al-Qaida training camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and that he was wanted by German and Egyptian police. Once he arrived in Afghanistan, he said he was put in a prison for five months and tortured. He said he was released in Albania in May 2004 after the CIA discovered they had the wrong person.... Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om |
