Three disturbing global trends – growing crackdowns on civil-society activists, countries restricting Internet access, and a rising repression of vulnerable minorities – are the focus of the State Department’s annual human rights report issued Fr…Continue Reading
Human rights conditions worsened over the past year in Venezuela and remained high in Cuba, but improved in Colombia, the US State Department said Friday in an annual review.Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara has pledged to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Friday.Continue Reading
WASHINGTON – The United States said Friday that rights abuses have worsened in China in the past two months with the detentions of dozens of activists, while repression of dissidents has increased in Vietnam and Internet censorship has widened in Thail…Continue Reading
Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara has pledged to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Friday.Continue Reading
The United States charged Friday that human rights abuses were “especially serious” last year in Bahrain, Libya and Syria, now hit by mass uprisings that it says raise hope for a brighter future.Continue Reading
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged China to free dozens of government critics rounded up this year and said the Asian power’s human rights record has been worsening.Continue Reading
Facebook, Freedom House, Yahoo, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture and 44 law professors are siding with YouTube and Google against Viacom’s newest legal appeal.Continue Reading
The United States charged Friday that human rights abuses were “especially serious” last year in Bahrain, Libya and Syria, now hit by mass uprisings that it says raise hope for a brighter future.Continue Reading
China’s human rights record is on a “negative trend” with growing restrictions on freedom of speech and “severe repression” in the Tibet and Xinjiang regions, a US report said Friday.Continue Reading
GENEVA – Investigators launching a U.N.-ordered probe into wartime human rights abuses in Libya vowed Friday to visit villages, prisons and conflict zones, sparing no one and no region from scrutiny.Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Bar urged the government to make absolutely clear that it will do its utmost to uphold, respect, protect and defend the human rights of Malaysians and the many foreign workers contributing to the economic development.Continue Reading
MINSK, Belarus – Belarus has rejected a call by Western countries for a human rights fact-finding mission to be sent to the authoritarian former Soviet republic in the wake of a crackdown on opposition.Continue Reading
MINSK, Belarus – Belarus has rejected a call by Western countries for a human rights fact-finding mission to be sent to the authoritarian former Soviet republic in the wake of a crackdown on opposition.Continue Reading
China confirmed Thursday that it has detained a renowned artist who had been missing for four days but insisted his case involves “economic crimes” and not human rights.Continue Reading