U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Tuesday for an international investigation into Libya’s attacks on anti-government protesters, saying they may amount to crimes against humanity.Continue Reading
Kabul, Feb.22 (ANI): Human Rights groups worry that Afghan government-run shelters will be disastrous for women and girls fleeing abuse.Continue Reading
Human rights abuses remain common across Iraq with the status of women and minority groups on the decline, eight years after the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein, according to a rights watchdog.Continue Reading
Human rights abuses remain common across Iraq with the status of women and minority groups on the decline eight years after the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein according to a rights watchdog.Continue Reading
Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has warned that plans to set up a parliamentary inquiry into left-wing NGOs and rights groups would have a “chilling effect” on basic human rights.Continue Reading
Human rights watchdogs are anxiously watching the escalating violence in Libya.Continue Reading
More than 100 people have died in an iron-fisted security crackdown in unrest-swept eastern Libya, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, fearing a “catastrophe” as protests spread closer to the capital.Continue Reading
There is “no question” of Britain pulling out of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) the justice secretary has confirmed.Continue Reading
The death toll has topped 100 from an iron-fisted crackdown on protests in east Libya, Human Rights Watch said, as demonstrators on Sunday again braved the streets of the restive city of Benghazi.Continue Reading
The death toll has topped 100 from an iron-fisted crackdown on protests in east Libya Human Rights Watch said as demonstrators on Sunday again braved the streets of the restive city of Benghazi.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch called on Kuwait on Sunday to release dozens of stateless Arabs who were detained at a protest to demand basic rights and citizenship.Continue Reading
Libyan security forces killed 35 people in the eastern city of Benghazi late on Friday, Human Rights Watch said, adding to dozens already killed in the worst unrest of Muammar Gaddafi’s four decades in power.Continue Reading
Libyan security forces killed 35 people in the eastern city of Benghazi late on Friday, Human Rights Watch cited hospital sources as saying, in the worst unrest of Muammar Gaddafi’s four decades in power.Continue Reading
Libyan security forces killed 35 people in the eastern city of Benghazi late on Friday, Human Rights Watch cited hospital sources as saying, in the worst unrest of Muammar Gaddafi’s four decades in power.Continue Reading
CAIRO – Libyan security forces have killed 84 people in a harsh crackdown on three days of protests, said the New York-based Human Rights Watch, even as the government shut off Internet in the North African country early on Saturday.Continue Reading