Popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world exposed biases by Western governments that supported Arab autocratic rulers for the sake of "stability" while turning a blind eye to their repressive policies, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.Continue Reading
London, Jan 22(ANI): Human rights claims have proved to be a major hurdle leading to the government expelling just nine percent of inmates of a deportation center.Continue Reading
BAGHDAD – Iraq's Shiite-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region, an internation…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch urged world powers to support the rights of Arab Spring protesters to build real democracies after they ousted long-time strongmen once backed by the West, in its annual report on Sunday.Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — Malaysia has made “little progress” on its promise to reform draconian laws despite Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s Malaysia Day pledge to uphold civil liberties, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. Continue Reading
Popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world exposed biases by Western governments that supported Arab autocratic rulers for the sake of "stability" while turning a blind eye to their repressive policies, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.Continue Reading
An international human rights group says Iraq's Shiite-led government has cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled else…Continue Reading
The United States will not sell lethal weapons to Vietnam until it reverses the "backward movement" in its human rights situation, US Senators including John McCain said Saturday.Continue Reading
The United States will not sell lethal weapons to Vietnam until it reverses the "backward movement" in its human rights situation, US Senators including John McCain said Saturday.Continue Reading
TORONTO – Ontario's human rights tribunal will weigh a challenge to Toronto's zoning rules that experts say could affect how municipalities across the country integrate housing for people with mental illness or disabilities.Continue Reading
The UN rights agency on Friday urged China to halt its "severe suppression" of dissent following the jailing of democracy activist Li Tie.Continue Reading
SANAA (Reuters) – A Yemeni draft law granting immunity to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh over the killing of protesters will protect his aides only from "politically motivated" crimes, a copy of the bill obtained by Reuters showed on F…Continue Reading
HUMAN rights organization Karapatan claimed Wednesday that the fugitive retired army general Jovito Palparan is somewhere in northern Negros Occidental. Karapatan Negros secretary general Fred Caña made the revelation after their human rights network …Continue Reading
The United States on Thursday renewed calls on Vietnam to improve its human rights record, saying it needed to do more to win support in Washington to expand cooperation.Continue Reading
Nine companies this month launched a process to test newly-developed Key Performance Indicators to assess reputational risks and operational shortcomings associated with labor and human rights factors in corporate supply chains.Continue Reading