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Guinea: The 28 September 2009 Case
FIDH and its member organisation, Organisation guinéenne de défense des droits de l’Homme (OGDH), are plaintiffs in the Conakry stadium massacre case concerning the events of 28 September 2009. FIDH and OGDH established the elements of proof that led to the indictment and provisional detention of a Guinean gendarme for rape on 30 April 2013. This will be the first judicial decision of its kind concerning a perpetrator of sexual violence committed on a large scale at the Conakry stadium on 28 September 2009.
FIDH and OGDH encourage the Guinean authorities to continue backing efforts to fight impunity and support the judges invested in the case.
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Greece violates the right to health, concludes the European Committee of Social Rights
FIDH and its member organisation, the Hellenic League for Human Rights, lodged a collective complaint against Greece on 8 July 2011. The complaint alleged that the State had failed to eliminate or reduce the harmful impact of the large-scale industrial pollution of the Asopos river on the health of residents. On 23 January 2013, the Committee unanimously recognised Greece’s violation of the right to protection of health, as guaranteed by the European Social Charter.
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Burma : EP Resolution condemns persecution and violence against minorities
On 13 June 2013, the European Parliament (EP) condemned the persecution and violence targeted at the Rohingya and other Muslim minorities by or with the complicity of the Burmese authorities. It called for the establishment of an OHCHR office in the country and the revocation of discriminatory policies.
FIDH and its member organisation, Altsean-Burma, have extensively documented the persecution of the Rohingya, which has been described by UN Special Rapporteur Tomás Ojea Quintana, as widespread and systematic, and perpetrated with total impunity.
The EP has called on European institutions, including the European External Action Service, Commission and HRVP Catherine Ashton, to raise the issue at the highest level. The EP has insisted on regular reassessments of the situation based on precise benchmarks, and the linking of trade preferences and the development of relations to actual progress.
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR): judgment expected in landmark Mapuche trial
In July 2010 a procedure against the Chilean State was commenced before the IACHR. Norin Catriman et al. v. Chile concerns racial discrimination and serious breaches of due process pertaining to the wrongful application of the Antiterrorist Law to ancestral leaders and authorities of the Mapuche communities.
FIDH represents 5 of the 9 plaintiffs. It has called upon the Court to provide victims with redress, to order the Chilean state to reform its Antiterrorist Law and to condemn the judges and prosecutors who discriminated against the victims in this case. This case will be the first ruling against the Chilean state for discrimination against the Mapuche. Video
A decision by the IACHR is expected in late 2013 or early 2014. However, the hearings themselves have offered an initial form of reparation to the victims in finally giving them an opportunity to be heard.
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