The Kuala Lumpur High Court has ordered the home minister to reply within 14 days on whether he approves or rejects the Human Rights Party’s (HRP) application to be registered.Continue Reading
A Quebec Human Rights Commission investigation is raising serious concerns about foster children across the province.Continue Reading
Lawyers and human rights advocates have reacted angrily to an admission by Federal Police that alleged people smugglers are being detained without charge for an average of more than five months.Continue Reading
Lawyers for a Canberra man charged over an alleged road rage incident in 2008 have asked for a permanent stay on the charges due to delays.Continue Reading
BERLIN (Reuters) – Joachim Gauck, a former anti-Communist human rights activist in East Germany who is set to become the next German president, is a moral authority to be reckoned with. Gauck, who has been called Germany's answer to Nelson Mandela,…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government has detained several hundred Tibetans who returned from India after attending teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama, and is forcing them to undergo political re-education, a human rights group said. New…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government has detained several hundred Tibetans who returned from India after attending teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama, and is forcing them to undergo political re-education, a human rights group said. New…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government has detained several hundred Tibetans who returned from India after attending teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama, and is forcing them to undergo political re-education, a human rights group said. New…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government has detained several hundred Tibetans who returned from India after attending teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama, and is forcing them to undergo political re-education, a human rights group said. New…Continue Reading
Campaign group Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Azerbaijan of carrying out "forcible evictions" during the construction of a concert hall where the Eurovision song contest will be staged in May.Continue Reading
TORONTO , Feb. 17, 2012 /CNW/ – Attorney General John Gerretsen today joined Barbara Hall , Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, to launch In the zone: Housing, human rights and municipal …Continue Reading
Activists say Syrian troops are intensively shelling rebel-held neighborhoods, one day after the U.N. General Assembly condemned human rights violations by the regime.Continue Reading
China has detained and forced into re-education classes hundreds of Tibetans who went to India to receive religious instruction from the Dalai Lama, a U.S.-based human rights group said.Continue Reading
The UN General Assembly demanded an immediate halt to Syria's brutal crackdown, which human rights groups say has claimed more than 6,000 lives over the past 11 months.Continue Reading
The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for Syria's president to step down and strongly condemns human rights violations by his regime.Continue Reading