WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's top trade official urged Congress on Wednesday to quickly approve legislation to improve trade ties with Russia, unencumbered by human rights requirements, saying it was vital to keep U.S. exports com…Continue Reading
GENEVA – A U.N. human rights expert accused the U.S. government Wednesday of sidestepping his questions on its use of armed drones to carry out targeted killings overseas.Continue Reading
London, June 20 (ANI): British lawmakers have passed a landmark vote ordering judges to stop granting foreign criminals 'human rights' to stay in the country. e motion was passed after the Commons was informed about the scale at which overseas …Continue Reading
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – The campaign for North Koreans¿ human rights is receiving fresh impetus as South Korea, the US and the international community are ratcheting up pressure on the repressive regime to address grave living conditions and ce…Continue Reading
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – The campaign for North Koreans¿ human rights is receiving fresh impetus as South Korea, the US and the international community are ratcheting up pressure on the repressive regime to address grave living conditions and ce…Continue Reading
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – The campaign for North Koreans¿ human rights is receiving fresh impetus as South Korea, the US and the international community are ratcheting up pressure on the repressive regime to address grave living conditions and ce…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Senate panel on Tuesday postponed by one week a vote on a measure to penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses, a bipartisan bill opposed by Russia and facing resistance from the Obama administration. The Senate Foreig…Continue Reading
MPs have told the country's most senior judges: do not let human rights laws get in the way of deporting foreign criminals.Continue Reading
Mumbai, June 19 (ANI): The New-York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported that Maoists in India have been recruiting children to swell their ranks.Continue Reading
Geneva, June 19 (ANI): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, in her opening statement to the 20th session of the HRC, expressed serious concern over the continuing use of armed drones for targeted attacks, in particu…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A draft proposal to penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses has been rewritten in the Senate to let the U.S. government keep secret some names on the list of abusers, congressional aides said on Monday. The reworked Se…Continue Reading
A former Winnipeg waitress whose fight against sexual harassment changed Canadian law in the 1980s is set to share her story at a national human rights conference.Continue Reading
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA– – Mr. Stuart Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights , and Ms. Barbara Hall, President of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human …Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions. Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there …Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions. Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there …Continue Reading