UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The UN human rights chief will call for the international war crimes court to investigate Syria’s deadly crackdown at a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday, diplomatic sources said.Continue Reading
AMMAN, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Syrian troops held hundreds of people in a stadium in Latakia, residents said, while the U.N. human rights chief was expected to propose that the Hague war crimes tribunal review Syria’s crackdown on protesters.Continue Reading
The UN human rights chief will call for the international war crimes court to investigate Syria’s deadly crackdown at a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday, diplomatic sources said.Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief is expected to suggest that the U.N. Security Council refer Syria’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters to the International Criminal Court, envoys said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief is expected to suggest that the U.N. Security Council refer Syria’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters to the International Criminal Court, envoys said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief is expected to suggest that the U.N. Security Council refer Syria’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters to the International Criminal Court, envoys said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief is expected to suggest that the U.N. Security Council refer Syria’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters to the International Criminal Court, envoys said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
The U.N. human rights chief is likely to call for the Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for investigation of alleged atrocities against protesters during the five-month uprising, a U.N. diplomat and a U.S. official in …Continue Reading
Security forces on Wednesday killed at least four people and made sweeping arrests, activists said, as Western states sought a special session of the UN human rights body on Syria’s crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading
A Palestinian human rights group is condemning Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers for preventing teenage students with scholarships to study in the U.S. from leaving the territory.Continue Reading
Human rights groups have criticised the severity of some of the sentences handed down to people involved in last week’s riots.Continue Reading
Shillong, Aug 16 (IANS) Social activists in Meghalaya Tuesday slammed the central government for arresting Anna Hazare, even as a women’s rights group lodged a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).Continue Reading
Poland’s prosecutor general announced the dismissal Tuesday of two officials who played a role in giving Belarus financial data about a leading human rights activist — information that resulted in his arrest.Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – The brother of missing Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has issued a plea for news about his whereabouts, and believes that he remains in extra-judicial detention despite recently ending a five-year probationary period.Continue Reading
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The United Nations called on Monday for an inquiry into reports of human rights abuses in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan region that it said could amount to war crimes but that Khartoum dismissed as “unfounded.”Continue Reading