Breakthrough, a global human rights organization, announces the launch of the groundbreaking Facebook-based game “America 2049” , in which players actively explore how the choices and challenges Americans now face will shape the future of the country, …Continue Reading
The U.N.’s top human rights body says it is standing by a report about Israel’s 2009 incursion into Gaza even though the lead author has backtracked from some of the report’s most damning allegations against Israel.Continue Reading
Somalia’s transitional government on Saturday banned from the country two officials working with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the foreign ministry said.Continue Reading
Cotabato City (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – A top human rights official said abuses by powerful political clans in the Philippines’ Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are keeping the region’s human rights record dismal.Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights office called on Ivorian presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara on Friday to rein in his forces, citing what it said were unconfirmed reports they had abducted and mistreated civilians.Continue Reading
The United Nations human rights office called on Ivorian presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara on Friday to rein in his forces citing what it said were unconfirmed reports they had abducted and mistreated civilians.Continue Reading
Ngapuhi activist David Rankin says he is satisfied with the Human Rights Commission’s response to his complaint over one of its staff members and never wanted the person to get the sack.Continue Reading
The United States said Thursday it was increasingly concerned about human rights in China, which has launched its biggest crackdown in years amid a wave of democracy protests in the Arab world.Continue Reading
Canada’s global reputation as a human rights champion has been eroded in recent years, according to a scathing Amnesty International report that doesn’t name Stephen Harper’s Conservatives but raises many criticisms of foreign policy under the Tories.Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Harper government has eroded Canada’s global reputation as a human rights champion, says a respected international watchdog.Continue Reading
NAIROBI, Kenya – Africa’s highest court on human rights has ordered Libya to immediately cease any action that would result in the loss of life. The order also compels Libya to report to the Tanzania-based court within two weeks.Continue Reading
SOFIA, Bulgaria – A human rights watchdog says respect for human rights in Bulgaria declined substantially last year.Continue Reading
President Basher Assad of Syria, faced with the sort of popular uprising that has toppled governments across the Middle East, addressed his people today in which he offered no concessions and blamed the protests on “conspirators.”Continue Reading
The Nation — Barack Obama’s war in Libya bears the intellectual imprint of Samantha Power, the Dublin-born human rights author who has risen to visible prominence in the White House hierarchy.Continue Reading
The United States will seek a second term on the U.N. Human Rights Council which has made significant progress over the past two years despite a “biased and disproportionate focus on Israel,” the State Department said on Thursday.Continue Reading