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Europe’s human rights court said on Thursday it had fined Russia for breaching the rights of gays by banning gay parades in Moscow.Continue Reading

Ethiopia rejected charges by Human Rights Watch that it was using donor aid to suppress political dissent, in a statement issued Thursday.Continue Reading

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Human rights leaders await word from Japan’s Ambassador and Consul General in New York, Shinichi Nishimiya, who is due to confirm tomorrow whether he will meet to discuss his country’s abuses of religious fr…Continue Reading

Religious leaders and other hold a protest in New York… “The Japanese government must solve the issue of human rights violations”Continue Reading

Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s proposal to let civilian authorities rather than the military investigate and try some human rights cases involving troops doesn’t go far enough, human rights groups said Tuesday.Continue Reading

The Intercultural Human Rights Law Review Hosts Legal Experts at 6th Annual Symposium on Post-Earthquake Haiti Governance and Human RightsContinue Reading

A leading human rights watchdog said courts in Saudi Arabia empower men to abuse their positions as guardians of female relatives — sometimes jailing adult women for “disobedience” when they seek control of their personal lives.Continue Reading

Iran has put on trial Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a founding member of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi’s rights group, on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, an opposition website said on Tuesday.Continue Reading

Human rights activists on Tuesday slammed proposals to honour late Indonesian dictator Suharto as a national hero.Continue Reading

Ethiopia is denying opposition supporters food, other aid, loans and government services in a widespread effort to suppress political dissent, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.Continue Reading

Human rights activists on Tuesday slammed proposals to honour late Indonesian dictator Suharto as a national hero.Continue Reading

Human Rights Watch says in a new report Ethiopia is denying opposition supporters food and other aid in a widespread effort to suppress political dissent.Continue Reading

The U.S. attorney general Tuesday urged Beijing to release Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and live up to its human rights obligations, a day before he was scheduled to meet with top law enforcement officials in China.Continue Reading

Human rights campaigners are to take legal action in a bid to force police to remove CCTV cameras placed in a city as part of a controversial scheme they have said.Continue Reading