Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she raised a range of human rights concerns in talks Tuesday with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who denied China had taken a “backward step”.Continue Reading
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she raised a range of human rights concerns in talks Tuesday with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who denied China had taken a “backward step”.Continue Reading
A Syrian human rights group says dozens have been detained across the country, a day after the army’s deadly raid on a southern city at the center of the uprising against President Bashar Assad.Continue Reading
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday pressed China on human rights and North Korea, at the same time seeking to boost trade with her country’s biggest buyer of coal and iron ore.Continue Reading
Human rights groups and a growing number of governments are working to prevent Syria from being elected to the U.N.’s top human rights body, as President Bashar Assad’s security forces crack down on pro-democracy protesters.Continue Reading
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, kicking off a visit in which she has pledged to press Beijing on human rights and discuss growing trade.Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she will press China on human rights and North Korea in meetings in Beijing on Tuesday, while seeking to boost trade with the biggest consumer of her nation’s coal and iron ore deposits.Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she will press China on human rights and North Korea in meetings in Beijing on Tuesday, while seeking to boost trade with the biggest consumer of her nation’s coal and iron ore deposits.Continue Reading
Witnesses and human rights activists have reported another day of violent crackdowns by government forces in Syria.Continue Reading
In the wake of the bloodiest day in Syria’s five-week-old uprising, we highlighted the ways in which Lebanese human rights activist Wissam Tarif is keeping foreign journalists barred from Syria abreast of developments within the country. As the crackdo…Continue Reading
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will raise human rights issues with China during her stay there.Continue Reading
New Zealand human rights campaigner Anne Firth Murray is returning to the country to help empower women.Continue Reading
AMSTERDAM – After the first Gulf War, Max van der Stoel was the expression of the world’s conscience and a thorn in the side of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Every year for eight years, the former Dutch foreign minister and special U.N. human rights rep…Continue Reading
An international human rights group called Sunday for a U.N. inquiry into Syria’s crackdown on opposition protesters that has left more than 120 dead people in recent days.Continue Reading
An international human rights group is calling on the United Nations to set up an inquiry into the Syrian security forces’ crackdown on protesters that has left at least 120 dead people in the past two days.Continue Reading