Office Depot , celebrating 25 years as a leading global provider of office supplies and services, today announced that the Company earned a 100 percent score in the 2012 Corporate Equality Index issued by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation .Continue Reading
Dozens of Syrian military commanders and officials authorized or gave direct orders for widespread killings, torture, and illegal arrests during the wave of anti-government protests that began nine months ago, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – A section of Canada’s human rights code that protects against hate speech on the Internet is under attack on two fronts just as three accused neo-Nazis in British Columbia face charges of vicious, racist assaults.Continue Reading
ATLANTA, GA– – The student body president of Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville briefed 12 congressmen at their offices on Capitol Hill Tuesday and received their good wishes for his 2,300 mile …Continue Reading
OAKLAND, CA– – The Clorox Company has earned a top rating of 100 percent for the sixth consecutive year on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2012 Corporate Equality Index . One of just three consumer good companies …Continue Reading
London, Dec 13 (ANI): UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has said that the death toll in Syria’s nine-month crackdown on an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has now crossed 5000.Continue Reading
Colombo, Dec 13 (ANI): A human rights organisation has urged the Sri Lankan government to launch an investigation into the disappearance of two activists in the northern city of Jaffna.Continue Reading
An international human rights group strongly criticized Colombia’s government Monday for pushing legislation that would let military judges decide whether soldiers should be tried for alleged rights abuses.Continue Reading
More than 5,000 people have died in the nine-month-long Syrian uprising, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday.Continue Reading
On the 63rd anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Church of Scientology urges mandatory human rights education as the key to its full implementation of the declaration.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2011 Hum…Continue Reading
In a year marked by the continuation of the Arab Spring and the enhancement of freedom of expression through social media, the world has reason to celebrate International Human Rights Day. In the Philippines over the weekend, the Armed Forces of the Ph…Continue Reading
London, Dec 11 (ANI): European commissioner for human rights Thomas Hammarberg has warned that any attempt to overhaul British human rights laws would have a damaging effect on global democracy.Continue Reading
Sonipat, Dec 11 (IANS) Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly has called a South Asian Human Rights Commission.Continue Reading
In honor of United Nations Human Rights Day, youth in more than 30 countries across the globe held walks to promote the need for human rights education as part of the International Walk for Human Rights, sponsored by Youth for Human Rights Internationa…Continue Reading
Cuba’s Ladies in White dissident group paid homage to their late leader while observing International Human Rights Day at her home Saturday, surrounded by a jeering pro-government crowd for a second straight day.Continue Reading