Members of the U.N.’s main human rights body plan to press Syria to allow independent monitors into the country to investigate allegations of abuses in the government’s crackdown on opposition groups.Continue Reading
Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) – Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum have jointly called on the Nepal government to investigate and prosecute all persons responsible for wartime abuses, such as disappearances and killings.Continue Reading
Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) – Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum have jointly called on the Nepal government to investigate and prosecute all persons responsible for wartime abuses, such as disappearances and killings.Continue Reading
It said restriction of visits to Sharmila without the permission of the home department was curtailment of her basic human rights and fundamental freedom.Continue Reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amnesty International on Thursday called on Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia to arrest former U.S. President George W. Bush for human rights abuse when he visits the region this month. During his time as President from 2001 to 2009, B…Continue Reading
LONDON & GENEVA & NEW YORK–(BUSINESSWIRE)– www.celebratehumanrights.org Lowe Chairman Tony Wright & UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay reveal digital and social media campaign A global campaign by Lowe …Continue Reading
The death toll from Syria’s crackdown on an 8-month-old revolt has exceeded 4,000 people and the country’s leaders should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Thursday.Continue Reading
The U.N.’s top human rights official says her office estimates the death toll in Syria’s nine-month uprising is now “much more” than 4,000.Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The families of at least four unmarried soldiers killed in Afghanistan have stepped forward to file human-rights complaints.Continue Reading
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton steps into one of the world’s most repressive countries Wednesday with her arrival in Burma (Myanmar) – the first secretary of State to trod Burmese soil since John Foster Dulles in 1955.Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 — LawAsia, an international society of lawyers, judges and legal experts said today Malaysia has directly or indirectly breached the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in passing the Peaceful Assembly Bill.Continue Reading
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad, with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out. European and Arab diplomats told Re…Continue Reading
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad, with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out. European and Arab diplomats told Re…Continue Reading
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad, with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out. European and Arab diplomats told Re…Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights forum is expected to condemn Syria for crimes against humanity at an emergency session on Friday, European and Arab diplomats said. The move is also designed to put pressure on China and Russia to …Continue Reading