Colombo (The Island/ANN) – The Sri Lankan government has come under heavy NGO flak on the sidelines of the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, with President Mahinda Rajapaksa strongly criticised for introducing …Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Libyan authorities should address human rights violations after a U.N. report found both sides committed war crimes during last year's conflict and that killing, tor…Continue Reading
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors said on Tuesday they would file charges against a retired colonel over the disappearance of five guerrillas during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, the first such case to be brought against any military of…Continue Reading
On Tuesday, United Against Nuclear Iran called on the InterContinental Hotels Group to reverse its decision to host Iran’s delegation during this month’s meeting of the UnitContinue Reading
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Libyan authorities to address human rights violations related to last year's uprising and ouster of Moammar Gadhafi after a U.N. report said forces both supporting and opposing the former leader c…Continue Reading
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Libyan authorities should address human rights violations after a U.N. report found both sides committed war crimes during last year's conflict and that killing, tor…Continue Reading
The European Union on Tuesday called on Iran to release a prominent human rights lawyer recently sentenced to 18 years in prison, calling the verdict an "unacceptable attack" against the legal profession.Continue Reading
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean lawmakers have scuffled with North Korean delegates in Switzerland at a U.N. meeting on the North's alleged human rights abuses.Continue Reading
South Korean lawmakers have scuffled with North Korean delegates in Switzerland at a U.N. meeting on the North's alleged human rights abuses.Continue Reading
Tehran says a U.N. human rights expert tasked with investigating the situation in Iran has produced a report based on statements by "terrorists."Continue Reading
An international human rights group says Syrian troops have planted landmines along routes used by people fleeing the country's violence and trying to reach neighboring Turkey.Continue Reading
El Paso, one of the safest US cities, now hosts a growing number of human rights activists seeking to escape persecution in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most deadly city just across the border.Continue Reading
A scuffle broke out Monday in the UN Human Rights Council and a man was detained by security after a North Korean diplomat said a critical report by an independent expert had been fabricated.Continue Reading
Islamabad, Mar 12 (ANI): The armed forces will not be immune from scrutiny of the new National Commission of Human Rights (NHCR) if it commits human rights violations, a text of the National Commission of Human Rights Bill, 2012, as passed by Senate, h…Continue Reading
Iraqi teenagers widely perceived to be gay are being brutally killed in Baghdad with Shiite militias distributing lists of targets warning of further assaults, officials and human rights groups say.Continue Reading