CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's government on Sunday denied accusations from human rights groups that it was trying to smother some of the ruling military council's most vocal opponents when it raided the offices of 17 non-governmental organisations …Continue Reading
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin says the ministry will help disseminate information to the public about how to use social media in accordance with the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law.Continue Reading
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin says the ministry will help disseminate information to the public about how to use social media in accordance with the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law.Continue Reading
Ireland is to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first time, based on its commitment to justice and peace, Enda Kenny said.Continue Reading
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Friday police raids of pro-democracy and human rights groups’ offices in Egypt amounted to an “open demonstration of force” and urged the authorities to support civil society. Egyptian prosecutors and pol…Continue Reading
Beijing, Dec 30 (ANI): Chinese Human Rights activist Ni Yulan, who has been charged with fraud and accused of making false statements to obtain payment, has pleaded not guilty in a Beijing Court.Continue Reading
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian prosecutors and police raided offices of 17 pro-democracy and human rights groups on Thursday – drawing criticism from the United States which hinted it could review its $1.3 billion in annual military aid. The official MENA …Continue Reading
A series of armed sweeps of democracy, justice, and human rights organizations in Egypt today drew denunciations from the US and from a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch who called the actions “unprecedented.”Continue Reading
CAIRO – Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups on Thursday, including several based in the U.S., accused by the country's military rulers of destabilizing security by fomenting protests with the hel…Continue Reading
Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups on Thursday, including several based in the U.S., accused by the country’s military rulers of destabilizing security by fomenting protests with the help of foreign…Continue Reading
Moscow, Dec 29 (ANI): Russia has criticized the United States for its human rights abuses, in its first-ever report on injustice in other countries.Continue Reading
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow’s first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing the…Continue Reading
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow's first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing…Continue Reading
The Russian Foreign Ministry just posted a scathing overview of the United States’ human rights violation — many of them obviously reference Guantánamo Bay and the Patriot Act — that sort of reads like an old issue of The Nation Magazine. It’s not n…Continue Reading
Cuba appeared to be making quick progress in meeting a pledge to free 2,900 pardoned prisoners, most of them convicted of minor crimes, even as a top human rights official on the island criticized the year-end amnesty as a “media show.”Continue Reading