(Adds human rights expert, paragraphs 22-23) GENEVA/NEW YORK, March 29 – U.N. officials have compiled a list of Syrian figures suspected of crimes against humanity in the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, but opposition from Russia and China …Continue Reading
TORONTO , March 27, 2012 /CNW/ -WHO: Human rights defenders from the Philippines working in alliance with a cross-Canada network of churches, community groups and human rights and development organizations, …Continue Reading
The ACT Government is claiming an Australian first as it moves to make changes to its Human Rights Act.Continue Reading
OTTAWA , March 28, 2012 /CNW/ – The Canadian Human Rights Commission has released its Annual Report for 2011. The report describes the work of the Commission and highlights important changes to the Canadian …Continue Reading
WARSAW (Reuters) – Human rights campaigners welcomed on Wednesday a report that prosecutors had charged the former head of Poland's intelligence service for helping set up CIA prisons for al Qaeda suspects in the country at the height of the U.S.-l…Continue Reading
WARSAW (Reuters) – Human rights campaigners welcomed on Wednesday a report that prosecutors had charged the former head of Poland's intelligence service for helping set up CIA prisons for al Qaeda suspects in the country at the height of the U.S.-l…Continue Reading
(Reuters) – U.S. policing along the Mexico border discriminates against Hispanics and Native Americans and contributes to the deaths of illegal immigrants, according to a study by the human rights group Amnesty International USA. The report, titled &qu…Continue Reading
New York, March 28 (IANS) Human Rights Watch Wednesday demanded that India should not hang terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana.Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human rights legislation named after an anti-graft lawyer who died in a Russian jail is likely to be considered by a Senate committee this spring, the panel's chairman Senator John Kerry said on Tuesday. The Sergei Magnitsky …Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, said on Tuesday he had received reports that armed Syrian opposition groups had engaged in human rights abuses as well as Syrian government forces, and had warned both sides against comm…Continue Reading
Syria's regime is committing human rights atrocities, including torture of men arbitrarily detained by security forces, that could amount to "crimes against humanity," US envoy Robert Ford said Tuesday.Continue Reading
TORONTO , March 27, 2012 /CNW/ -WHO: Human rights defenders from the Philippines working in alliance with a cross-Canada network of churches, community groups and human rights and development organizations, …Continue Reading
Israel was on Tuesday lodging protests with several European countries who voted in favour of a UN Human Rights Council resolution ordering an investigation of Jewish settlement activity.Continue Reading
Human rights campaigners are warning of rising repression in Zimbabwe as 88-year-old President Robert Mugabe pushes for another election to further extend his 32 years in power, despite being seriously ill with prostate cancer. "We have grave conc…Continue Reading
Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements, the Foreign Ministry said.Continue Reading