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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-08-27T15:39:10+11:00 2008-08-27T15:39:10+11:00 The Solomon Islands government has moved a step closer to setting up a truth and reconciliation commission.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2348206.htm2008-08-27T15:39:10+11:00One of China's longest-held political prisoners has been released after serving 16 years of a 20 year jail sentence.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2347310.htm2008-08-26T21:04:57+11:00Human rights in Vietnam are the subject of talks in Canberra between Australia's foreign minister Stephen Smith and Le Hoai Trung, Vietnam's director general of foreign affairs.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2347171.htm2008-08-26T17:49:07+11:00China has quietly deported eight Americans, one Tibetan-German and one Briton as the world watched the spectacular Olympic closing ceremony.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2346142.htm2008-08-26T04:19:33+11:00Thailand's prime minister Samak Sundaravej has told the western countries not to pin their efforts to bring democracy to Burma on the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2346151.htm2008-08-26T00:57:47+11:00Australia's workplace relations minister, Julia Gillard, has warned the country's telecommunications giant Telstra to respect the rights of its workers.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2335461.htm2008-08-14T14:58:51+11:00The new United Nations human rights envoy to Burma has met five prominent political prisoners on his first trip to the country.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2328223.htm2008-08-08T10:11:48+11:00The Olympic Torch has been carried along the Great Wall of China, as Beijing prepares to host the Olympic Games.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2328042.htm2008-08-08T05:02:03+11:00On the eve of the Beijing Olympic games a total of 127 athletes have, in an open letter, called on China's President Hu Jintao to seek a peaceful solution to the Tibet issue and to improve the human rights situation.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2328004.htm2008-08-08T01:12:23+11:00A letter from a jailed Chinese dissident to the I-O-C claims the treatment of pro-democracy supporters in China has worsened in the lead-up to the Olympics.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2327965.htm2008-08-07T18:35:22+11:00About 100 protesters from Falun Gong have gathered in Australia's harbour city, Sydney, calling for greater scrutiny of China's labour camps during the Olympics.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2327731.htm2008-08-07T16:39:13+11:00Three senior leaders of Burma's National League for Democracy have met the new UN human rights envoy for Burma.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2326559.htm2008-08-07T09:47:54+11:00An Indonesian former intelligence agent is to face trial over the 2004 poisoning murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2323991.htm2008-08-04T22:14:43+11:00United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the world body's new human rights chief.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2313933.htm2008-07-25T08:18:05+11:00Human rights group Amnesty International is asking Pakistan's government to disclose details of hundreds of people who disappeared after being picked up by security agencies during counter-terrorism operations.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2312715.htm2008-07-24T08:06:13+11:00Amnesty International has asked the US President George W Bush to make a 'strong public statement' on China's need to respect human rights when he attends the opening of the Beijing Olympics.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2304899.htm2008-07-16T09:03:16+11:00International human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has published a letter to China's President Hu Jintao urging several key improvements on human rights.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2297694.htm2008-07-08T13:31:49+11:00Two United States Congressmen are urging the president, George W Bush, to rethink attending the Beijing Olympic Games after they were prevented from meeting Chinese human rights activists.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2291679.htm2008-07-02T13:18:37+11:00Media watchdogs have condemned the prolonged detention of journalist Win Tin, saying his health has seriously deteriorated in recent days.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2291469.htm2008-07-01T23:00:39+11:00Supporters of gay rights in India have taken to the streets to appeal for an end to discrimination.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2289778.htm2008-06-30T13:32:56+11:00East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta has indicated he will stay on in his current post, and won't seek to stand for a top United Nations human rights job.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2288314.htm2008-06-27T21:05:08+11:00The United States says it is deeply concerned over the arrest in Nepal of three Tibetan leaders, and called for their immediate release.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2287760.htm2008-06-27T12:10:42+11:00A wealthy New York woman has been jailed for 11 years for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2287598.htm2008-06-27T10:29:30+11:00Members of the European Parliament have denounced Burmese newspapers that said detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi should be flogged.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2280711.htm2008-06-20T11:04:19+11:00Sweden has denied a Chinese national of Uighur ethnicity the right to remain on its soil, on grounds that he has refugee status in Albania.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2280620.htm2008-06-20T10:00:09+11:00