SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — BSR today published “Protecting Human Rights in the Digital Age,” a new report describing the evolving freedom of expression and privacy risks faced by information and communications technology (I…Continue Reading
NICOSIA (AFP) – Syrian woman blogger Tal al-Mallouhi has been sentenced to five years in prison by a state security court, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement on Monday.Continue Reading
Syrian woman blogger Tal al-Mallouhi has been sentenced to five years in prison by a state security court, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement on Monday.Continue Reading
DEARBORN, Mich. – Egyptians who gathered Saturday in major cities across the U.S. for a second day of celebration after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down expressed hope about the future, even as a leading human rights group said major refor…Continue Reading
Egyptians living in the U.S. and their supporters are celebrating the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with rallies in several major U.S. cities.Continue Reading
A human rights activist says more than 400 people have been arrested during a pro-democracy protest that brought thousands of people onto the streets of the Algerian capital.Continue Reading
Human rights in Egypt have been a point of contention during the tenure of Hosni Mubarak. With his era coming to an abrupt end, will Egypt end its reliance on emergency law?Continue Reading
China should immediately allow freedom of movement to blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng after accounts that he was severely beaten by police, a US official said Friday.Continue Reading
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay sharply criticised Israel on Friday for ignoring the harm done to Palestinians by its Jewish settlement policy and the construction of a vast West Bank barrier.Continue Reading
Activists in Washington To Demonstrate Solidarity with Human Rights Aspirations of Egyptian ProtestersContinue Reading
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay sharply criticised Israel on Friday for ignoring the harm done to Palestinians by its Jewish settlement policy and the construction of a vast West Bank barrier.Continue Reading
New book is an in-depth study that analyzes Chinese human rights issuesContinue Reading
A top international rights group said Friday that Zimbabwe’s two-year-old coalition government has failed to end human rights abuses and political violence.Continue Reading
CAIRO – A leading human rights activist has called for an immediate investigation of reports that guards deliberately killed dozens of inmates at an Egyptian prison during the chaotic first days of Egypt’s uprising.Continue Reading
Facebook has become an important tool for democracy and human rights activists and it needs to do more to protect them, including allowing the use of pseudonyms, a US senator said Thursday.Continue Reading