Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday decried Belarus’ record of human rights abuses since a crackdown on dissent a year ago, and warned that US relations with it will not improve without progress on that front.Continue Reading
New York, Dec 18 (IANS) A Sri Lankan government report disregards the ‘worst abuses’ by government forces towards the end of the war that killed the Tamil Tigers in 2009, Human Rights Watch has said.Continue Reading
Human rights groups in Bangladesh have mobilized in requesting severe punishment for 30-year-old Rafiqul Islam, who has admitted to using a machete to cut off his 21-year-old wife Hawa Akther Jui’s fingers on her right hand as punishment for pursuing…Continue Reading
Beijing, Dec 17 (ANI): Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been sent back to jail for three years after a Beijing court ruled he had violated the terms of his probation.Continue Reading
International human rights groups criticized a Sri Lankan report Friday on the island’s civil war and called for more accountability after the commission cleared the military of key charges.Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng back to jail, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday, ending his probation in what was the first official account of his whereabouts in the last year. Gao, however, appears never …Continue Reading
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been sent back to prison after a court ruled he had violated the terms of his probation, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday.Continue Reading
The United States urged China on Friday to “immediately release” human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and to clarify his whereabouts, which have been unknown for months.Continue Reading
The head of the World Trade Organization and a U.N. food expert have exchanged testy messages in a public spat over how to help feed the world’s poor.Continue Reading
Uzbekistan has become an essential ally, supplying U.S. troops in Afghanistan even as watchdogs allege human-rights abuses. The State Department says it sees ‘no contradiction’ in the relationship.Continue Reading
A human rights commission has provided an Argentine judge with photographs showing the bodies of dissidents believed to have been tossed out of airplanes during the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.Continue Reading
A human rights commission has provided an Argentine judge with photographs showing the bodies of dissidents believed to have been tossed out of airplanes during the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.Continue Reading
American-trained Afghan village police forces have committed some human rights abuses, a U.S. military investigation has found, adding recommendations on how to eliminate them.Continue Reading
The U.N.’s top human rights official urged countries Thursday to abolish legal discrimination against gays, including the death penalty for consensual sex, days after the U.S. government said it would use foreign aid and diplomacy to promote gay equal …Continue Reading
MARANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – A Chinese mining group has denied violating human rights at Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields where unlicensed small-scale miners have clashed with security forces in the past. The Anjin group told Reuters on a rare visit …Continue Reading