WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China's broad crackdown on dissent that has seen activists get lengthy jail terms and human rights lawyers disappear stems from a mix of arrogance and insecurity in Beijing, the most recently exiled Chinese dissident said on …Continue Reading
Human rights activists who have been sounding the alarm about racial profiling among some Montreal police officers said they’re happy that the top brass has acknowledged the problem, but said a lot more work needs to be done on the ground before raci…Continue Reading
A Moroccan man from Gatineau, Que., has filed a human rights complaint regarding an immigrant values guide that suggests new Canadians should refrain from bribing city officials.Continue Reading
Beijing, Jan.18 (ANI): China has defended its human rights record, and said that no country has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and violate its judicial sovereignty.Continue Reading
Beijing (China Daily/ANN) – China objects to other countries' interference in its internal affairs and the violation of China's judicial sovereignty by making an issue of human rights, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
Beijing (China Daily/ANN) – China objects to other countries' interference in its internal affairs and the violation of China's judicial sovereignty by making an issue of human rights, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
LISBON (Reuters) – Angola's government has denied a report by Human Rights Watch suggesting that $32 billion are missing from state funds thought to be linked to the state oil company Sonangol, state news agency Angop reported on Tuesday. The New Y…Continue Reading
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An Istanbul court convicted a man Tuesday for instigating the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink five years ago, sentencing him to life imprisonment in a case closely watched by human rights groups. Editor of the bil…Continue Reading
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An Istanbul court convicted a man Tuesday for instigating the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink five years ago, sentencing him to life imprisonment in a case closely watched by human rights groups. Editor of the bil…Continue Reading
Human rights groups accuse Nigerian authorities of trumping up charges against a labor union leader and member in Nigeria's southeast.Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Canada's aid agency says it will look into how Ethiopia spends the assistance after publication of a report that accuses the African country of an abusive and systematic practice of forcing rural villagers off their land.Continue Reading
The European Court of Human Rights Tuesday blocked Britain from extraditing an alleged top aide of Osama bin Laden to Jordan, saying evidence against him may have been obtained through torture.Continue Reading
OTTAWA – A rights' watchdog is urging Canada and fellow aid donors to pressure Ethiopia into ending an abusive and systematic practice of forcing rural villagers off their land.Continue Reading
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke was wrong in saying this week that China's human rights situation has deteriorated.Continue Reading
Radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be sent back to Jordan because it would be a "flagrant denial of justice", human rights judges have ruled.Continue Reading