Srinagar, Aug 3 (ANI): Reacting to the recent custodial killing of a youth, the chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has turned to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to look into alleged human righ…Continue Reading
The Arc, the nation’s largest and oldest human rights organization for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, released the following statement from its CEO Peter V. Berns on the passage of the budget and debt ceiling deal in Wash…Continue Reading
A coalition of 28 human rights groups, led by the Geneva-based United Nations watchdog group U.N. Watch, is urging the world’s countries to protest North Korea’s chairmanship of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament.Continue Reading
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned Syrian authorities that the “world is watching” their deadly crackdown against protesters and that attempts at imposing a news blackout were not working.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.Continue Reading
A day after Malacañang said it would go after human rights violators, a male youth has accused Basilan-based Armed Forces soldiers of torture anew. GMA News’ “24 Oras” reported that the alleged torture victim was arrested on June 23, 2011 in his B…Continue Reading
Human rights campaigners on Tuesday accused Sri Lanka of whitewashing military abuses in its official report on the island’s decades-long ethnic war, which ended in May 2009.Continue Reading
Victoria’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Helen Szoke, has quit after three years in the job.Continue Reading
London, Aug 2 (ANI): A dangerous sex offender in Britain, whose claim for asylum was rejected eight years ago, is still living in the country and costing the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.Continue Reading
At least 24 civilians were killed by security forces across Syria, including 10 after evening prayers on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a human rights activist said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
BEIRUT – A human rights group says Syrian forces have killed 24 people on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Continue Reading
A human rights group says Syrian forces have killed 24 people on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Continue Reading
Justice Minister Simon Power today announced the appointment of Rodger Haines, QC, as chair of the Human Rights Review Tribunal.Continue Reading
Justice Minister Simon Power today announced the appointment of Rodger Haines, QC, as chair of the Human Rights Review Tribunal.Continue Reading