ASEAN’s attitude to Myanmar, and the harsh treatment of activists by the bloc’s chair Vietnam on the eve of its summit, highlight the group’s failure to confront human rights abuses, watchdogs say.Continue Reading
ASEAN’s attitude to Myanmar, and the harsh treatment of activists by the bloc’s chair Vietnam on the eve of its summit, highlight the group’s failure to confront human rights abuses, watchdogs say.Continue Reading
Political reform and respect for human rights are essential if Vietnam wants to realise its potential, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.Continue Reading
HANOI, Vietnam – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has urged Vietnam to clean up its human rights record following a spate of dissident arrests.Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has urged Vietnam to clean up its human rights record following a spate of dissident arrests.Continue Reading
The United States said Friday it would raise human rights concerns with China and Vietnam, including the case of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits the two countries.Continue Reading
A human rights group on Friday denounced a regional government’s investigation into the slaying of Kurdish journalist critical of authorities in Iraq, calling for a more independent inquiry.Continue Reading
A human rights group on Friday denounced a regional government’s investigation of a slain Kurdish journalist in Iraq and demanded that officials open a new, independent inquiry.Continue Reading
A human rights group is denouncing a government investigation of a slain Kurdish journalist and wants officials to open a new, independent inquiry.Continue Reading
On Thursday and Friday, October 21-22, the Forum on the Universality of Human Rights was held in Oslo, hosted by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe in collaboration with the European Wergeland Center for Education in Human Rights.Continue Reading
Dozens of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists remain under house arrest as a wary government seeks to stifle support for jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a New York-based human rights group said.Continue Reading
SYDNEY, Oct 29, 2010 (AFP) – – Australia’s human rights agency Friday urged the government to stop locking up asylum seekers on remote Christmas Island, its main detention centre, saying it was overcrowded and inadequate.Continue Reading
Members of human rights organizations in Southeast Asia have given the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) a failing mark for its performance in its first year.Continue Reading
In a move criticized by human rights organizations, the Obama administration has decided to exempt Yemen and three other countries that use child soldiers from U.S. penalties under the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act.Continue Reading
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw her support behind an international human rights probe in Myanmar amid growing US frustration with polls planned by the military regime.Continue Reading