GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces have committed human rights violations, including executions, across the country "on an alarming scale" during military operations in the past three months, United Nations investigators said on Wedn…Continue Reading
ATLANTA, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The National Center for Civil and Human Rights breaks ground today with a shovel ceremony at the global institution's future site, Pemberton Place. Center CEO Doug …Continue Reading
HELSINKI – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's optimistic that relations with Moscow will not suffer despite planned legislation in Congress that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators.Continue Reading
HELSINKI – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's optimistic that relations with Moscow will not suffer despite planned legislation in Congress that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators.Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's optimistic that relations with Moscow will not suffer despite planned legislation in Congress that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators.Continue Reading
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been called on to put people's economic, social and cultural rights at the heart of any change to the constitution.Continue Reading
Amnesty International is angry the federal government has ignored calls to subject Stronger Futures draft laws to a human rights test.Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses, a measure with broad support in Congress that Russia protests would be an unwarranted intrusion into its in…Continue Reading
A Senate panel moved ahead Tuesday on legislation that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators, a bill certain to be linked to congressional efforts to lift Cold War-era restrictions on trade with Russia.Continue Reading
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is reviewing its security procedures after the downtown Winnipeg site was broken into early this morning.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE, June 26 (Bernama) — The Foreign Affairs Council of the EuropeanUnion (EU) today adopted the Strategic Framework on Human Rights and Democracywith an Action Plan for putting it into practice. This is the first time that the EU has had a unif…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have forced back into Myanmar some ethnic Kachin refugees who have fled across the border to escape civil war, and China is denying basic care to many who remain, a human rights group said on Tuesday. Myanmar'…Continue Reading
The UN expert tasked with investigating human rights abuses in Syria has finally managed to enter the country, the UN said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
The UN expert tasked with investigating human rights abuses in Syria has finally managed to enter the country, the UN said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
Government plans for the merger of human rights and equality commissions could risk the new body losing its independence from the state, it has been warned.Continue Reading