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A leading human rights activist says Syrian security forces have killed 30 people during widespread protests.Continue Reading

A human rights lawyer has come to the defense of television host Willie Revillame, who has been accused of child abuse in criminal and administrative cases filed before five different government offices. Attorney Romeo Capulong, president of the Public…Continue Reading

U.N. human rights investigators called on the United States on Friday to disclose whether there had been any plan to capture Osama bin Laden and if he was offered any “meaningful prospect of surrender and arrest.”Continue Reading

A human rights group says Syrian security forces have killed 16 people during widespread protests.Continue Reading

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) India’s apex human rights body, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), will help Afghanistan in promoting human rights, prevent trafficking of women and children and investigate rights abuses.Continue Reading

A human rights activist says Syrian security forces have killed six people during widespread protests on Friday.Continue Reading

BEIJING, May 6 (Bernama) — The United States should pay more attention tothe development of human rights in China rather than at individual cases thatinvolve the violations of the Chinese laws, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankaisaid. He said China was …Continue Reading

The United States said it will raise concerns with China from currency values to human rights at talks next week in Washington, but Beijing in turn set limits on how far the discussions could go.Continue Reading

China cautioned the United States not to be “preoccupied” with individual human rights cases when the two sides meet in Washington next week and insisted it would not be pushed on its yuan policy.Continue Reading

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Southeast Asian nations should reject Myanmar’s request to chair their regional grouping in 2014 unless the government releases political prisoners and takes other concrete steps to improve human rights, a U.S.-based rights group s…Continue Reading

The United States said Thursday that it would raise human rights concerns with China during high-level talks next week despite Beijing’s warnings against foreign comments on its wave of detentions.Continue Reading

Chinese human rights lawyer Li Fangping said Thursday he was home after disappearing for five days, but the wife of another attorney said her husband had vanished amid a tough crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading

Chinese human rights lawyer Li Fangping said Thursday he was home after disappearing for five days, but the wife of another attorney said her husband had vanished amid a tough crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading

MINSK, Belarus – Human rights defenders in Belarus say police burst into an apartment where activists were preparing to present a report and arrested three people.Continue Reading