WINNIPEG, MANITOBA– – The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and representatives of the Chinese Canadian community from across Canada met today at the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre to discuss …Continue Reading
A Syrian human rights activist says that the 25-year-old pregnant wife of a Syrian dissident has been kidnapped in Cairo.Continue Reading
India’s communists and a human rights group condemned Saturday the killing of a top Maoist rebel and suggested that the shoot out in which he was killed was staged by security forces.Continue Reading
Taipei (The China Post/ANN) – Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou visited artist Ai Weiwei’s art exhibition in Taipei, Friday evening, to show support for freedom in artistic creation and human rights.Continue Reading
THE HAGUE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican human rights activists want the International Criminal Court to investigate President Felipe Calderon, top officials and the country’s most-wanted drug trafficker, accusing them of allowing subordinates to kill…Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.S.-led push to regulate, rather than ban, cluster munitions failed Friday after 50 countries objected, following humanitarian campaigners’ claims that anything less than a outright ban would be an unprecedented reversal of human …Continue Reading
THE HAGUE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican human rights activists want the International Criminal Court to investigate President Felipe Calderon, top officials and the country’s most-wanted drug trafficker, accusing them of allowing subordinates to kill…Continue Reading
MINSK (Reuters) – A Belarussian court jailed leading human rights activist Ales Belyatsky for 4-1/2 years for tax evasion on Thursday, sparking an outcry in the European Union, particularly in neighboring EU countries which unwittingly aided his prosec…Continue Reading
Belarus’ leading human rights activist was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison on Thursday at a trial condemned by U.S. and European Union officials as politically motivated.Continue Reading
The U.N. human rights chief urged the Maldives on Thursday to end the “degrading” practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage.Continue Reading
RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan authorities should stop harassing people campaigning for a boycott of parliamentary elections this week, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The New-York based organization said Moroccan police had brought in more than 100 …Continue Reading
The United States Wednesday called on Bahrain to punish those guilty of human rights abuses in anti-government violence this year, and said it would closely follow its ally’s actions.Continue Reading
The White House says Bahrain’s government must hold those responsible for human rights violations accountable following the release of a report detailing torture, excessive force and fast-track justice in the Persian Gulf kingdom.Continue Reading
RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan authorities should stop harassing people campaigning for a boycott of parliamentary elections this week, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The New-York based organization said Moroccan police had brought in more than 100 …Continue Reading
The UN human rights chief called Wednesday for an independent probe into the killing of demonstrators by Egypt’s military and security forces.Continue Reading