BERLIN – Germany’s top human rights official is urging Iran to release the country’s detained opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.Continue Reading
BEIJING, China – China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
COMMENTARY | According to the Daily Caller, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, is pressuring President Barack Obama to formally investigate and prosecute his predecessor, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney for human rights violations during their admi…Continue Reading
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan rebels fighting to oust Moammar Gadhafi have looted shops and clinics and torched the homes of suspected regime supporters in some of the towns they seized in the country’s western mountains, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.Continue Reading
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived in Tunis Wednesday to plegde support for the country’s democratic transition and open a new UN human rights office.Continue Reading
China is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country’s human rights record, state media reported Wednesday, but it will likely focus on improving living standards rather than granting greater freedoms.Continue Reading
BEIJING, July 13 (Bernama) — China is drafting a new human rights actionplan for the next four years, aimed at improving the country”s human rightsrecord, a senior official with the State Council Information office said.The National Human Rights Acti…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – China still has “a long way to go” before its citizens can enjoy full human rights, a senior Chinese official said in a rare admission of the challenges ahead, pointing to social conflict and even rising house prices as stumbling bl…Continue Reading
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan rebel forces seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi have looted shops, homes and medical facilities in some of the towns they seized in the country’s western mountains, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — Prominent lawyer who championed human rights and a cleaner government, Raja Aziz Addruse, 74, was buried at the Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery here shortly before noon today in a simple ceremony attended by his family and a few c…Continue Reading
A leading international human rights group criticized Myanmar’s army Wednesday for forcing prison inmates onto the front lines of the country’s conflict with ethnic militias, using some as human shields and executing others who tried to escape.Continue Reading
Libyan rebel forces have been responsible for looting, arson and the abuse of civilians in their push toward Tripoli, Human Rights Watch alleged on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch is pressuring President Barack Obama to investigate and criminally prosecute former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.Continue Reading
Contact: Bill Schmitt, +1-302-327-3318, wschmitt@christianacare.orgContinue Reading