A UN committee on Thursday passed a resolution condemning human rights in North Korea, but the communist government rejected the action as “confrontational” and said it would not change.Continue Reading
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND–(Marketwire – 11/18/10) – The UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) has ruled that Canada and Ontario, through Ontario’s ban on farm unions, violate the human rights of the more than 100,000 migrant and domestic agriculture …Continue Reading
Deloitte today announced it has earned a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for the fifth consecutive year. Â The CEI ranks businesses on workplace policies and benefits provided to their lesbian, gay, bisexual …Continue Reading
An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group and an interior ministry source said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Sweden’s immigration authority has criticized the European Court of Human Rights for being inefficient in handling complaints from Iraqi asylum-seekers.Continue Reading
An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group said on Wednesday.Continue Reading
The United States said Tuesday it was “gravely concerned” about Iran’s alleged crackdown on human rights lawyers and called for the release of all those who have been detained.Continue Reading
STOCKHOLM – Sweden has temporarily halted the deportations of about 30 Iraqi asylum-seekers after criticism from human rights groups.Continue Reading
The United States said Tuesday it was “gravely concerned” about Iran’s alleged crackdown on human rights lawyers and called for the release of all those who have been detained.Continue Reading
Human rights are a growing area of diplomatic competition. Since the United Nations defined the playing field in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the list of countries that say nothing about human rights has dwindled to very few. Unfortu…Continue Reading
An international human rights group on Tuesday urged Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to do more to protect domestic workers, citing fresh allegations that employers in the three Mideast nations abused their Sri Lankan maids.Continue Reading
An Austrian human rights lawyer and others on Monday blamed the slaying of a Chechen refugee on the president of the southern Russian republic and expressed hope that an upcoming trial will help prosecute him.Continue Reading
An Austrian human rights lawyer and others on Monday blamed the slaying of a Chechen refugee on the president of the southern Russian republic and expressed hope that an upcoming trial will help prosecute him.Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A press release announcing that human rights advocates are calling on Japan to stop persecution and imprisonment of religious minorities was refused for distribution in Japan by K.K. Kyodo News Agenc…Continue Reading