The White House on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the reportedly imminent execution of a mother-of-two for adultery, saying the case showed the regime’s “fundamental disregard for human rights.”Continue Reading
The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold an investigation into the province’s controversial abortion policy.Continue Reading
Prisoners are to get the right to vote after ministers conceded defeat in a long-running legal battle with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Continue Reading
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection of dissidents.Continue Reading
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection of dissidents.Continue Reading
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked China to play a greater role in solving African crises during a meeting Monday with the president, but did not discuss the country’s human rights record or the imprisonment of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.Continue Reading
Sudan arrested nine Darfur activists including a prominent human rights lawyer, just weeks ahead of a southern referendum on secession, a civil society leader said on Monday.Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring Khmer Rouge leaders are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring Khmer Rouge leaders are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured Cambodia’s genocide museum on Monday during a visit to the capital in which she is expected to urge the country to respect human rights and fight corruption.Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring Khmer Rouge leaders are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.Continue Reading
The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN’s top human rights assembly’s for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council.Continue Reading
Russian police arrested dozens of opposition activists at unauthorised human rights rallies denouncing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Saint Petersburg on Sunday.Continue Reading
The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN’s top human rights assembly for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council.Continue Reading