Today’s update of human rights events around the world.
GAZA: Israel bombs Gaza targets
Israeli aircraft have bombed targets on Gaza’s border with Egypt, after Palestinian fighters fired rockets into southern Israel, witnesses say. Al Jazeera
THAILAND: Airlines Turn Modern Day Slavers
The presence of East Asian human trafficking victims in places as far-removed as Southern Africa and Central and South America confirm the ease with which modern merchants of slavery exploit international air travel. IPS
UN: Send More Troops to DR Congo
The United Nations Security Council should act with urgency to send additional peacekeepers to northern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continues its brutal attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Security Council is expected to discuss the situation in Congo on February 17, 2009. Human Rights Watch
CAMBODIA: Historic Killing Fields trial opens
A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia has begun the first ever war crimes trial of a Khmer Rouge leader – 30 years after the fall of the regime. Al Jazeera
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