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The European Union has expanded sanctions against Iran because of continued human rights abuses.Continue Reading

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union imposed sanctions against 16 Belarus officials and 29 individuals from Iran Monday, extending previous measures in response to crackdowns on opposition movements and other human rights abuses.Continue Reading

LUXEMBOURG – The European Union has expanded sanctions against Iran because of continued human rights abuses.Continue Reading

Lahore, Oct 10 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has asked the Pakistan Government to abolish the death penalty.Continue Reading

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced an $8.5 million campaign to end the stigma associated with mental illness.Continue Reading

Pakistan’s human rights body Saturday called for political parties to disband private militias and disarm criminal gangs to end bloodshed in the country’s commercial capital, Karachi.Continue Reading

OSLO (Reuters) – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize to three women from Liberia and Yemen extends the illustrious award’s tradition since the 1960s of honoring human rights and democracy activists as well as more conventional peacemakers.Continue Reading

Syria’s deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that his nation is under attack from criminals who have killed 1,100 citizens with arms supplied by neighboring countries.Continue Reading

VANCOUVER – The public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case lost another two participants Thursday just days before it opens as two high-profile human rights groups quit over what they described as a flawed process that will shut out society’s most-vul…Continue Reading

Ken Clarke and Theresa May have met at Downing Street after the Justice Secretary criticised her for “laughable and childlike” examples of abuses of the Human Rights Act.Continue Reading

More than 2,900 people have been killed in Syria since the start of a crackdown on anti-regime protests, the UN said on Thursday a day before its human rights body was to discuss the situation.Continue Reading

Experts predict the Nobel Peace Prize will be given tomorrow to an Arab Spring activist – though which one is under debate – as part of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s expected focus on human rights and the role of the social media this year.Continue Reading

GENEVA (Reuters) – The death toll in Syria has risen to more than 2,900 since pro-democracy protests began in March, the United Nations human rights office said on Thursday as activists warned that the country could descend into armed conflict.Continue Reading

GENEVA (Reuters) – The death toll in Syria has risen to more than 2,900 since pro-democracy protests began in March, the United Nations human rights office said on Thursday as activists warned that the country could descend into armed conflict.Continue Reading