The European Union should maintain its travel ban and asset freezes on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe until the country follows through on promised political reforms, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.Continue Reading
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A human rights group called on the International Olympic Committee to require that Saudi Arabia's participation in Olympic sporting events, including the upcoming London Games, be contingent upon the Arab country allowing girl…Continue Reading
A human rights group called on the International Olympic Committee to require that Saudi Arabia's participation in Olympic sporting events, including the upcoming London Games, be contingent upon the Arab country allowing girls and women to play co…Continue Reading
A human rights group called on the International Olympic Committee to require that Saudi Arabia's participation in Olympic sporting events, including the upcoming London Games, be contingent upon the Arab country allowing girls and women to play co…Continue Reading
Egyptian human rights groups condemned Wednesday an impending trial of 43 democracy activists as politically motivated, accusing the authorities of intentionally misleading the public to retain power.Continue Reading
TORONTO , Feb. 15, 2012 /CNW/ – Attorney General John Gerretsen will join Barbara Hall , Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and Kingston Deputy Mayor Jim Neill to launch In the …Continue Reading
Beijing, Feb 15 (ANI): China's Vice-President Xi Jinping has defended his country's record on human rights, saying it has made 'tremendous and well-recognized achievements' in the past 30 years, but also admitted that there was "ro…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play by the same trade rules as other major world powers and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record. In White…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, enjoyed center stage in Washington on Tuesday, the wife of a jailed Chinese rights lawyer and other opponents of Beijing's grip on dissent said the Obama administration should …Continue Reading
A Connecticut human-rights commission has rebuked a mayor who made a disparaging remark about Latinos.Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, enjoyed center stage in Washington on Tuesday, the wife of a jailed Chinese rights lawyer and other opponents of Beijing's grip on dissent said the Obama administration should …Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play fair in international trade and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record. In White House talks, Obama soug…Continue Reading
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, was the keynote speaker at a major international conference marking the 40th anniversary of AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advanceme…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON – China's heir apparent leader has defended the county's widely criticized human rights record but acknowledged there is room for improvement.Continue Reading
ATLANTA, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL – News) today announced Scarlet Pressley Brown, currently Delta's director – Community and External Affairs, will begin working for the National …Continue Reading