MONTREAL – Human-rights groups are turning to Canada's highest court in their effort to sue a Canadian mining company on behalf of the victims of a massacre in Congo.Continue Reading
HALIFAX – Even when faced with the perils of a life-changing spinal cord injury 30 years ago, David Shannon's optimism never wavered.Continue Reading
Iraq's fugitive vice president demanded Sunday that global human rights groups investigate whether one of his bodyguards was tortured to death.Continue Reading
Israel should boycott the United Nations Human Rights Council after it voted to authorise a probe of Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told public radio on Sunday.Continue Reading
Israeli Cabinet ministers were in an uproar Sunday over the U.N. Human Rights Council's plan to investigate Israeli settlement in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and some urged that the panel be banned from entering Israel and the Palestinian ter…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch accused Syrian forces Sunday of using civilians as human shields during recent military operations, as diplomatic pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime intensified.Continue Reading
The Church of Scientology hosted closing ceremonies March 23 for the 9th annual Youth for Human Rights International World Tour at the L. Ron Hubbard Auditorium of the Scientology Community Center at 8039 S. Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles.Los Ange…Continue Reading
BRUSSELS/DUBAI (Reuters) – The European Union has imposed sanctions on 17 Iranian officials, including prominent members of the government and the judiciary it says play a key role in serious human rights violations. Agreed by EU foreign ministers on F…Continue Reading
BRUSSELS/DUBAI (Reuters) – The European Union has imposed sanctions on 17 Iranian officials, including prominent members of the government and the judiciary it says play a key role in serious human rights violations. Agreed by EU foreign ministers on F…Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council condemned on Friday what it called "sharply escalating" violations by Syrian forces and extended the mandate of its investigators documenting crimes against humanity that include exec…Continue Reading
London, March 24 (IANS) A UN human rights official has warned Sri Lanka against possible attacks on its rights activists after a UN body passed a resolution decrying rights violations in the island.Continue Reading
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution urging Libya's new rulers to probe all alleged abuses, but threw out a Russian proposal calling for a halt to arbitrary detentions.Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council condemned on Friday what it called "sharply escalating" violations by Syrian forces and extended the mandate of its investigators documenting crimes against humanity that include exec…Continue Reading
A U.N.-appointed panel of human rights experts said Friday it has new information on high-level Syrian military defections, including four brigadier generals, and on doctors ordered to make patients unconscious during hospital visits by Arab League mon…Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council condemned on Friday what it called "sharply escalating" violations committed by Syrian forces and extended the mandate of its investigators documenting crimes against humanity including executi…Continue Reading