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Human Rights Watch says the Angolan government has used intimidation and baseless threats of a return to civil war to prevent pro-democracy protests.Continue Reading

Human Rights Watch says the Angolan government has used intimidation and baseless threats of a return to civil war to prevent pro-democracy protests.Continue Reading

TEHRAN, March 10 (Bernama) — Iran”s permanent representative to the UnitedNations Office in Geneva, Mohammad Reza Sajjadi said that certain countries usehuman rights issues in the United Nations as a tool for achieving theirpolitical purposes, report…Continue Reading

MANILA, Philippines – The long wait is finally over for victims of human rights violations.Continue Reading

An international human rights group urged Sri Lanka’s government on Wednesday to release hundreds of prisoners held without charge under the country’s tough anti-terror laws.Continue Reading

Twelve Syrian human rights organisations called on the government on Tuesday to scrap the state of emergency which has stifled civil society for almost 50 years.Continue Reading

The United States has urged China to stop what it called the “extralegal” detention and abduction of leading lawyers and human rights activists, the State Department said Tuesday.Continue Reading

Syria released a leading lawyer and human rights activist who was imprisoned since 2009 for “spreading false information” after giving a television interview that criticized excessive government security and corruption, human rights groups said Tuesday.Continue Reading

DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian authorities released a leading lawyer and human rights activist just hours after President Bashar Assad issued an amnesty for older prisoners and others convicted of minor crimes, a human rights group said Tuesday.Continue Reading

Syrian authorities released a leading lawyer and human rights activist just hours after President Bashar Assad issued an amnesty for older prisoners and others convicted of minor crimes, a human rights group said Tuesday.Continue Reading

Three resident doctors at the Ottawa Hospital have filed a human-rights complaint against the University of Ottawa and several officials, alleging they were discriminated against on the basis of their Saudi heritage.Continue Reading

Leading Syrian human rights lawyer Haythem al-Maleh was freed from jail on Tuesday, benefitting from a presidential pardon, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Continue Reading

Leading Syrian human rights lawyer Haythem al-Maleh was freed from jail on Tuesday benefitting from a presidential pardon the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Continue Reading

JOHANNESBURG – Every day in Zimbabwe, Tendai has to see the people who killed his parents more than two years ago. They live in his neighbourhood and have gone unpunished.Continue Reading