The detained leader of the most prominent human rights group in Belarus faces up to seven years in jail for helping political prisoners and government critics in the authoritarian ex-Soviet nation, the group said Friday.Continue Reading
Belarus faced global calls Friday to release the head of a top human rights group who was arrested outside his home after months of police pressure and charged with crimes punishable by seven years in jail.Continue Reading
Officials from the UN and EU on Friday joined calls to Belarus to release the head of a human rights group, who was arrested and charged with crimes punishable by seven years in jail.Continue Reading
Ethnic and politically linked violence in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi has killed 800 people so far this year, the country’s independent human rights organisation said Friday.Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – Human rights groups and campaigning lawyers will not take part in an inquiry into what British security services knew about the alleged torture of terrorism suspects on foreign soil because it risks becoming a “whitewash,” they said …Continue Reading
Human rights groups and lawyers intend to pull out of the inquiry into British complicity in allegations of torture because it does not have “credibility or transparency”.Continue Reading
With thousands of unresolved cases of human rights violations, an awareness campaign against impunity was launched to bring justice to the victims of this abuse.Continue Reading
With thousands of unresolved cases of human rights violations, an awareness campaign against impunity was launched to bring justice to the victims of this abuse.Continue Reading
With thousands of unresolved cases of human rights violations, an awareness campaign against impunity was launched to bring justice to the victims of this abuse.Continue Reading
With thousands of unresolved cases of human rights violations, an awareness campaign against impunity was launched to bring justice to the victims of this abuse.Continue Reading
With thousands of unresolved cases of human rights violations, an awareness campaign against impunity was launched to bring justice to the victims of this abuse.Continue Reading
After months of deadlock, the U.N. Security Council finally responded to the escalating violence in Syria on Wednesday, condemning President Bashar Assad’s forces for attacking civilians and committing human rights violations.Continue Reading
After days of debate about how to respond to the Syrian government’s bloody military assault on Hama, the 15-member U.N. Security Council has issued a statement condemning the “widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civili…Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – In its first substantive action on Syria’s five-month-old uprising, the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday condemned human rights violations and use of force against civilians by Syrian authorities.Continue Reading
An international human rights group urged the United Nations on Wednesday to investigate the execution-style slaying of 17 workers for a French aid agency in Sri Lanka five years ago, after a government probe did not identify the killers.Continue Reading