WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide if companies can be held liable in the United States for international human rights law violations, a case about allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppres…Continue Reading
An African leader whose regime is accused of human rights abuses sent a substitute to Rome to deliver the keynote address Monday at a U.N. forum on food crises.Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether companies can be liable in this country for international human rights law violations, a case involving allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently supp…Continue Reading
NICOSIA (AFP) – Syrian soldiers fought gunmen suspected to be army defectors in the flashpoint central province of Homs on Monday in clashes that left five troops dead, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
NICOSIA (AFP) – Syrian soldiers fought gunmen suspected to be army defectors in the flashpoint central province of Homs on Monday in clashes that left five troops dead, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
Islamabad, Oct 17 (ANI): British taxpayers are paying up to 10,000 pounds for human rights “inspectors” to visit an Indian jail to see if it would be a safe place to hold a man wanted over a bombing that killed a girl of eight.Continue Reading
Syrian soldiers fought gunmen suspected to be army defectors in the flashpoint central province of Homs on Monday in clashes that left five troops dead, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
Chinese police have warned prominent government critic Hu Jia that he will be detained again if he continues his activism and speaks to foreign media, human rights defenders said Monday.Continue Reading
Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) – Cambodia’s ban on sending its domestic workers to Malaysia is long overdue, said human rights groups.Continue Reading
Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) – Cambodia’s ban on sending its domestic workers to Malaysia is long overdue, said human rights groups.Continue Reading
Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) – Cambodia’s ban on sending its domestic workers to Malaysia is long overdue, said human rights groups.Continue Reading
Syrian soldiers fought gunmen suspected to be army defectors in the flashpoint central province of Homs on Monday in clashes that left five troops dead, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
Human rights advocates say nearly 100 Indonesian boys are being held in Australian prisons waiting to be prosecuted for people smuggling.Continue Reading
Syrian security forces have opened fire on a funeral procession for an activist, a human rights group says.Continue Reading
DAMASCUS (AFP) – Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession for an activist in the oil-rich east on Sunday as they pressed a crackdown on dissent, a human rights group said.Continue Reading