A leading human rights group on Wednesday criticized Palestinian security forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for what it said was an increase in attacks on local journalists, including arbitrary detentions and abuse.Continue Reading
JERUSALEM – A leading human rights group is criticizing Palestinian security forces in the West Bank for what it says is an increase in attacks on local journalists, including arbitrary detainment and abuse.Continue Reading
A leading human rights group is criticizing Palestinian security forces in the West Bank for what it says is an increase in attacks on local journalists, including arbitrary detainment and abuse.Continue Reading
The United States said Tuesday that future cooperation with Sri Lanka depended on improvements in its human rights record and an accounting of the bloodshed at the end of the island’s civil war.Continue Reading
Brazil should suspend work on the massive Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon to consult the affected indigenous population, an intergovernmental human rights panel said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Brazil should suspend work on the massive Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon to consult the affected indigenous population an intergovernmental human rights panel said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Brazil should suspend work on the massive Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon to consult the affected indigenous population, an intergovernmental human rights panel said Tuesday.Continue Reading
A U.N. human rights expert said Tuesday that EU-requested changes have not removed his concerns that Hungary’s media law could be used to limit press freedoms.Continue Reading
The UN human rights chief on Tuesday expressed alarm at what was described as the disproportionate use of force by Yemen authorities against protesters noting that up to 100 people have been killed in two months.Continue Reading
BUDAPEST, Hungary – A U.N. human rights expert says he remains concerned Hungary’s media law could be used to limit press freedoms, despite EU requested changes.Continue Reading
Seven human rights activists detained by the Syrian authorities in a security crackdown last month have been freed, a lawyer announced on Tuesday.Continue Reading
The government needs to fundamentally rethink how arms sales fit its human rights rhetoric a Commons report has said.Continue Reading
The United States said Monday it is “deeply concerned” about the rising trend of disappearances and arrests of human rights activists in China after one of the country’s most famous artists was detained.Continue Reading
The United States says it is “deeply concerned” about the rising trend of disappearances and detentions of human rights activists in China.Continue Reading
The U.N.’s top human rights body that commissioned an investigation of Israel’s 2009 incursion into Gaza will continue to treat it as a legitimate working document, even though the lead author has backtracked from some of the report’s most damning alle…Continue Reading