Sanaa, Feb 9 (ANI): Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered a crackdown on Arab Spring protesters in 2011, which killed at least 270 people nationwide, a US-based human rights organisation has claimed.Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – Russian and Chinese arms are being used to violate human rights in Darfur region in breach of an "ineffectual" United Nations embargo, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Amnesty said Russia and China are supplying weap…Continue Reading
A U.N. official expressed support Wednesday for Haitian victims of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's regime who plan to appeal a judge's recommendation that calls for trying the ex-leader only for alleged financial crimes and not human rig…Continue Reading
US lawmakers moved forward Wednesday on a bill that would curb aid to Vietnam unless it improves its human rights record, raising concern over the treatment of dissidents and religious practitioners.Continue Reading
Yemen's president, who is in New York protected by diplomatic immunity while he receives medical treatment, ordered a crackdown on Arab Spring protesters last year that killed at least 270 people nationwide, Human Rights Watch said in a new report …Continue Reading
With 65 prisoners executed in Iraq since the beginning of this year, a prominent human-rights organization is calling on the government to abolish the death penalty.Continue Reading
Yemen's president, who is in New York protected by diplomatic immunity while he receives medical treatment, ordered a crackdown on Arab Spring protesters last year that killed at least 120 people just in one city, Human Rights Watch said in a new r…Continue Reading
Germany's human rights commissioner says Belarus has blocked his plans to visit the country and meet with a jailed human rights activist.Continue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States and Gulf Arab states are not bound by a Yemeni parliament decision to grant President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution over civilian deaths during protests against his rule, Human Rights Watch said Wednes…Continue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States and Gulf Arab states are not bound by a Yemeni parliament decision to grant President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution over civilian deaths during protests against his rule, Human Rights Watch said Wednes…Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations' top human rights official called Wednesday for urgent international action to protect civilians in Syria, saying she was appalled by the Syrian government's military onslaught on the city of Homs. Navi Pil…Continue Reading
On Jan. 30, more than a year after former "President for Life" Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti, a Port-au-Prince judge concluded his lengthy investigation into the ex-dictator's brutal, 1971-86 rule. Supreme Court Magistrate Carvè…Continue Reading
PETALING JAYA: Human rights groups have called on the government to speed up the approval for the free legal aid programme, saying that there is a crucial need to get the programme off the groundContinue Reading
Amnesty International warned on Tuesday that Uganda could soon pass an anti-homosexuality bill that would introduce draconian provisions and constitute "a grave assault" on human rights.Continue Reading
Europe's human rights court has rejected an invasion-of-privacy complaint by Monaco's Princess Caroline — one of two potentially groundbreaking rulings Tuesday that uphold the media's right to report on celebrities.Continue Reading