Bangladesh: Attacks on journalists rise with tension around war crimes tribunal

Headline Title: Bangladesh: Attacks on journalists rise 20 February 2013 A string of recent violent attacks against journalists and media workers, including the murder of a blogger, shows the urgent need to better protect individuals commenting on Bangladesh’s ongoing war crimes tribunal, Amnesty International said. The latest attack on Wednesday morning left a journalist from an online news site seriously injured.Those targeted include journalists and bloggers calling on the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to impose death sentences on people accused of mass scale human rights…

Read complete article

~	Inter-American Court sets milestone in the global fight for climate justice

~	Can the NHS shift from treatment to prevention? What healthcare bosses think

~	NHS ten-year plan for England: what’s in it and what’s needed to make it work

~	Lost in space: MethaneSat failed just as NZ was to take over mission control – here’s what we need to know now

~	A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town, in Rachel Morton’s gripping novel

~	US: FIFA Cancels Anti-Bias Messaging for Club World Cup

~	UN Human Rights Council hears grim updates on Ukraine, Gaza and global racism

~	Astronomers have discovered another puzzling interstellar object − this third one is big, bright and fast

~	One ‘big, beautiful’ reason why Republicans in Congress just can’t quit Donald Trump

~	Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding through Medicaid