Around 10000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Friday to protest against the rising tide of extremist sentiment in Israel that they warn is posing a growing threat to Israeli democracy.Continue Reading
Western nations hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as a reminder of the importance of human rights, while Beijing and some of its allies said the prize had been politicised.Continue Reading
On Monday, December 6, 2010, a billboard in Milwaukee sponsored by human rights activists in Michigan and Wisconsin displayed the plight of thousands of organized stalking and remote electronic torture victims nationwide in an ad that may lead to hope …Continue Reading
GENEVA (AFP) – Myanmar’s newly-released democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that genuine democratic institutions in the country could not exist without respect for human rights.Continue Reading
Myanmar’s newly-released democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that genuine democratic institutions in the country could not exist without respect for human rights.Continue Reading
Myanmar’s newly-released democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that genuine democratic institutions in the country could not exist without respect for human rights.Continue Reading
Myanmar’s newly-released democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that genuine democratic institutions in the country could not exist without respect for human rights.Continue Reading
William Hague has used the occasion of international human rights day to praise imprisoned Nobel prize-winner Liu Xiaopo.Continue Reading
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said she is concerned over reports of government pressure on Internet service providers and other companies to stop doing business with WikiLeaks.Continue Reading
Figures from the Commission on Human Rights show that from 2005 to July 2009, a total of 3,196 members of the AFP and the PNP have been the subject of cases of alleged human rights violation filed with the commission.Continue Reading
A Wellington-based political refugee from Burma has won Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand’s Human Rights Defender award.Continue Reading
Government supporters jeered the dissident group “Ladies in White” on Thursday as the women marched through Havana on the eve of international Human Rights Day.Continue Reading
Government supporters jeered the dissident group “Ladies in White” on Thursday as the women marched through Havana on the eve of international Human Rights Day.Continue Reading
New research argues the ACT’s human rights laws do not sufficiently protect a person’s economic, social and cultural rights.Continue Reading
On Friday, December 10, 2010—International Human Rights Day—a broad-based coalition of at least 1,000 policymakers, healthcare workers, activists and residents will gather for the 2nd Annual South Los Angeles Health and Human Rights Conference to t…Continue Reading