Today’s update of human rights events around the world.
COLOMBIA: US keeps US$72 million in aid to Colombia frozen over ‘false positives’
The United States have frozen US$72 million in aid that will not be released until Colombia knows to clarify extrajudicial executions carried out by the army and the role of the military’s top commanders in these human rights violations. Colombia Reports
WORLD: Leading Climate Scientist: ‘Democratic Process Isn’t Working’
Protest and direct action could be the only way to tackle soaring carbon emissions, a leading climate scientist has said. Common Dreams
IRAQ: New deal for Blackwater
Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company then known as Blackwater in Iraq, the State Department signed a $22.2 million deal in February to keep the embattled contractor working there through most of the summer, contract records show. Washington Times
US: Cluster Bomb Supply Cut
A new US law permanently banning nearly all cluster bomb exports by the United States will end a long period of transfers of the weapon to Israel and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Human Rights Watch said today. The measure should spur the countries in the region as well as the US to join the international treaty prohibiting cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch said. Human Rights Watch
US: Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
Clinical staff at U.S. immigration detention centres systematically abuse detainees in their charge, according to two reports by Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigration Advocacy Centre (FIAC) that describe the medical care system in these facilities as “dangerously inadequate”. IPS
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