GENEVA – Several members of the U.N.’s top human rights body are pressing for an emergency meeting to examine the government crackdowns against popular protests that have swept the Middle East and North Africa, Western diplomats said Wednesday.Continue Reading
Several members of the U.N.’s top human rights body are pressing for an emergency meeting to examine the government crackdowns against popular protests that have swept the Middle East and North Africa, Western diplomats said Wednesday.Continue Reading
New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) The Delhi High Court today sought a response from the Centre and the city government on a PIL seeking a direction to establish Human Rights courts here.Issuing notices to the governments, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak …Continue Reading
GENEVA – The U.N.’s top human rights official warned Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday that his forces may be committing war crimes by using heavy weapons against civilians in the besieged port city of Misrata.Continue Reading
BEIJING, China – The wife of a prominent human rights lawyer who disappeared for two months amid a massive Chinese security crackdown says her husband has returned home and appears to be well.Continue Reading
Two years after fleeing Iran, the Nobel Peace Prize winner says human-rights violations are rising in her homeland and opposition leaders are virtually prisoners, Babak Deghanpisheh reports. Plus, Ebadi’s letter to the U.N. about the crackdown.Continue Reading
The U.S. and other key nations are backing a new U.N. resolution on the disputed Western Sahara that mentions human rights for the first time, but the group promoting independence for the mineral-rich north African territory said Tuesday it doesn’t go …Continue Reading
SYDNEY, April 19, 2011 (AFP) – – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday urged China not to take “backward steps” on human rights, saying she will raise her concerns in an upcoming meeting with President Hu Jintao.Continue Reading
The Prime Minister has pledged to raise human rights issues with China during a week-long swing through north Asia beginning tomorrow.Continue Reading
The Obama administration will oppose Syria’s candidacy to the United Nations’ top human rights body, an official said Monday, calling the Arab country’s attempt to gain a seat in the organization “hypocritical” while it uses violence to try to silence …Continue Reading
A Syrian human rights group says the death toll has risen to 12 from shootings during protests and a funeral on Sunday night.Continue Reading
Washington, April 18 (IANS) Satellites that helped us gather real-time data from the most inaccessible and hostile places on earth can also help us track human rights abuses that cause misery to millions of people around the world.Continue Reading
Human rights lawyers say authorities in the United Arab Emirates have detained a fourth activist for advocating democratic reforms in the oil-rich Gulf nation.Continue Reading
Iran on Saturday condemned the European Union for imposing sanctions against 32 officials, dubbing it a political decision “which employs double standards,” the state broadcaster’s website reported.Continue Reading
The U.N. human rights chief called on Friday for an independent investigation into the deaths of 34 people at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq after Iraqi security forces moved against it last week.Continue Reading