An emotional President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla jailed and tortured during Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship, on Wednesday swore in a seven-member Truth Commission tasked with probing human rights abuses from that period.Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Human rights advocates say the Harper government is shirking a legal responsibility to evaluate the rights situation in Colombia.Continue Reading
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation pu…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of female immigrant farm workers in the United States are at risk of sexual violence and harassment, the organization Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday. The 95-page report titled "Cultiva…Continue Reading
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation pu…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – China may have sown the seeds of its next human rights row with the United States even as it looks to end the current one over blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, with its treatment of him inspiring a band of lawyers to join his human-…Continue Reading
By Tracie Cone, The Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. – Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful …Continue Reading
FRESNO, Calif. – Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.Continue Reading
The wife of a US citizen held in Vietnam urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday to push for his release, as a senior US official said Hanoi's respect for human rights is deteriorating.Continue Reading
MIAMI — On May 8, 2012 in Miami, Florida, history was made for Syrian-Americans and Cuban-Americans and for the future of Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights in Syria and Cuba. The Assembly of the Cuban …Continue Reading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was emp…Continue Reading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was emp…Continue Reading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was emp…Continue Reading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was emp…Continue Reading
MANILA. Philippines – Keeping up with its commitment to uphold human rights, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has joined labor groups in protecting workers' rights.Continue Reading