A Cuban dissident has used a video address at the EU’s main human rights prize ceremony to call for the release of all political prisoners and for the country to end attacks on peaceful opposition.Continue Reading
An international human rights court condemned Brazil on Tuesday for the forced “disappearance” of 62 suspected leftist militants during its military dictatorship and said it should allow prosecutions for abuses committed during the era.Continue Reading
An international human rights court condemned Brazil on Tuesday for the forced “disappearance” of 62 suspected leftist militants during its military dictatorship and said it should allow prosecutions for abuses committed during the era.Continue Reading
An international human rights court condemned Brazil on Tuesday for the forced “disappearance” of 62 suspected leftist militants during its military dictatorship and said it should allow prosecutions for abuses committed during the era.Continue Reading
Husband Louis Henkin Posthumously HonoredContinue Reading
The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling on the Federal Government to immediately stop housing asylum seekers at a Darwin motel.Continue Reading
Former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, now imprisoned for fraud and awaiting the verdict in a second trial, was in the spotlight in Berlin Monday for a different reason — a human rights prize.Continue Reading
The foreign ministry summoned British envoy Simon Gass on Monday for criticising Iran’s human rights record and calling for the release of a prominent lawyer, and also to protest against what it called violence against students by British police.Continue Reading
The UN human rights expert on Myanmar on Monday urged the military regime to release about 2,200 remaining prisoners of conscience, a month after the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.Continue Reading
UN human rights investigators said on Monday that activists in China were under growing pressure from the state, linking the crackdown to the Nobel peace prize award to dissident Liu Xiaobo.Continue Reading
Progress on human rights is essential for the growth of ties between the United States and Vietnam, a senior US official said Monday.Continue Reading
Dec. 10 is the day of this year’s quest to help put an end to human rights violations across the world and is called Human Rights Day 2010. Human Rights Day designed to help spread awareness about discrimination and the Human Rights Defenders, the grou…Continue Reading
Members of the dissident group Ladies in White staged brief protests in front of two prisons while pro-government Cuban youths danced salsa in the park as islanders marked a comparatively peaceful international Human Rights Day on Friday.Continue Reading
Around 10,000 Jews and Arabs demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Friday in protest at a rising tide of extremist sentiment in Israel that they warn is posing a growing threat to democracy in the country.Continue Reading
Human Rights Day falls on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the United Nations adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This declaration helped and continues to help focus and intensify efforts to confr…Continue Reading