GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and opposition fighters are committing gross human rights violations despite a six-week-old ceasefire in the conflict and children are often the victims, United Nations investigators said in a report on Thurs…Continue Reading
London, May 24 (IANS) Human rights violations — including harassment to journalists for exposing abuses — are still widespread across countries of the former Soviet Union, rights group Amnesty International has said.Continue Reading
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has praised the Indonesian government's efforts to promote human rights, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said.Continue Reading
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has praised the Indonesian government's efforts to promote human rights, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said.Continue Reading
The mandatory and indefinite detention of asylum seekers in remote locations and the stripping of essential services from isolated Aboriginal communities have been identified by Amnesty International as Australia's top human rights violations for 2…Continue Reading
Indonesia is facing fresh criticism over its human rights record following a year of continued unrest in Papua.Continue Reading
North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday.Continue Reading
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – The Philippine government will be represented by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in the universal periodic review before the United Nations Human Rights Council later this month in Geneva, Switzerland.Continue Reading
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – The Philippine government will be represented by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in the universal periodic review before the United Nations Human Rights Council later this month in Geneva, Switzerland.Continue Reading
North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday.Continue Reading
North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday.Continue Reading
HARARE (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday called on Zimbabwe to take steps to prevent a repeat of 2008 political violence in elections that are due next year. She spoke after meeting Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Ts…Continue Reading
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday said Zimbabwe must take steps to prevent a recurrence of the deadly violence that engulfed the last presidential election four years ago.Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Harper government is trying to block the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from hearing a retired aboriginal Mountie's complaints about the alleged discrimination and harassment he faced over the course of his long RCMP career.Continue Reading
Canada's attorney general is trying to stop the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from hearing a long-serving aboriginal B.C. Mountie's complaints of discrimination within the RCMP.Continue Reading