GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it has called on the U.N. human rights investigator for the Palestinian territories to resign after he published a cartoon on his blog which he later withdrew as “anti-semitic.”Continue Reading
GENEVA – The European Court of Human Rights on Friday dismissed a challenge by Muslim groups to Switzerland’s minaret building ban.Continue Reading
The European Court of Human Rights on Friday dismissed a challenge by Muslim groups to Switzerland’s minaret building ban.Continue Reading
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian security forces stormed the northern Damascus suburb of Harasta, injuring two people, residents and a human rights group said on Friday, ahead of further protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.Continue Reading
The Honduran government violated human rights by causing the deaths of 20 people in the seven months after the 2009 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, an Organization of American States report said Thursday.Continue Reading
An alliance of human rights groups on Thursday slammed the “illegal arrest and detention” of Colonel Moussa Keita, a former member of the military junta which led Guinea for a year until December 2009.Continue Reading
British troops accused of the unlawful killing and ill-treatment of civilians while at war in Iraq were governed by Europe’s human rights convention at the time, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.Continue Reading
Western governments and human rights organizations are condemning the ongoing attacks against Syrian citizens by the armed forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Tuesday, security forces entered Hama, where thousands of Syrians were killed in 1982 during…Continue Reading
Syrian troops killed more than 20 people in an assault on the flashpoint central city of Hama that prompted US calls for an immediate pullback, human rights activists said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
It’s almost unheard of for a Russian leader to side with human rights activists against his top officials.Continue Reading
Pakistan’s leading human rights organisation on Wednesday accused the government of failing to stop political killings after officials said another night of violence left 24 people dead in Karachi.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused Bahrain of carrying out a “campaign of violent oppression” against its citizens and called for an end to abuses.Continue Reading
A report on Indigenous children has found young people in Alice Springs feel they lack basic human rights.Continue Reading
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The creation of a truth commission would help promote reconciliation for Haitian victims who suffered during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, a U.N. human rights official said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Former NZ Rugby Union chief executive David Rutherford is to be our next chief Human Rights commissioner.Continue Reading