Human rights activists find themselves under increasing attack by unidentified assailants and persecuted by state authorities in a growing climate of hostility against rights groups and non-governmental organizations, the Inter-American Commission on H…Continue Reading

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should formally brand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and 25 other current and former Iranian officials as human rights abusers, senators urged Friday.Continue Reading

The U.N.’s human rights chief called Friday for an independent probe into the deaths of at least 34 people during last week’s Iraqi military raid on a camp housing Iranian exiles, some of whom she said appeared to have been crushed to death.Continue Reading

The United Nations on Tuesday named the experts who will investigate allegations of human rights abuses in Ivory Coast a day after the capture of Laurent Gbagbo whose refusal to quit as president triggered conflict.Continue Reading

In the wake of Judge Richard Goldstone’s landmark op-ed in The Washington Post, Stuart Robinowitz says Human Rights Watch should issue a mea culpa for its allegations that Israel committed war crimes in the deaths of civilians in Gaza—and return to…Continue Reading

In a letter to The Daily Beast, Human Rights Watch responds to Stuart Robinowitz’s allegations that the organization is hostile to Israel and falsely accused the country of committing war crimes in the deaths of civilians in Gaza. HRW’s Iain Levine…Continue Reading

Peru found itself on Monday facing the very scenario many Peruvians dreaded: The two presidential candidates whose democratic credentials are most questioned — the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori and leftist military man Ollanta …Continue Reading