Theresa May wants to scrap the Human Rights Act because she says it is hampering moves to deport dangerous foreign criminals and terrorist suspects, but her comments have sparked a furious debate.Continue Reading
Mexico’s Human Rights Commission is investigating an elementary school for allegedly forcing sixth-graders to strip down after $13 disappeared.Continue Reading
London, Oct 2 (ANI): British Home Secretary Theresa May has called for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped saying that it hinders the government’s attempts to deport dangerous foreign criminals and terrorist suspects.Continue Reading
Theresa May issued another demand for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped this morning, threatening a rift in the coalition.Continue Reading
Home Secretary Theresa May has risked angering Liberal Democrat Cabinet colleagues by throwing her weight behind calls for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped.Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.Continue Reading
President Barack Obama is headlining the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner Saturday night, addressing the gay rights group less than two weeks after the military ended its ban on openly gay service members, an effort Obama championed.Continue Reading
The U.N. human rights office on Friday questioned the fairness of a Bahrain court that sentenced an anti-government protester to death and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical staff who treated the injured during the country’s uprising.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch called on Libya’s new rulers to stop armed groups from rounding up suspected Moammar Gadhafi supporters and abusing them, saying Friday that some detainees reporting beatings and electric shocks had the scars to prove it.Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed rights commission urged Syria to let it into the country to investigate reports of killings and torture, including of children, during six months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.Continue Reading
The UN human rights office on Friday raised concerns about heavy sentences handed down by a Bahraini court on over 50 protesters in the country, noting that there were “serious due process irregularities.”Continue Reading
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada publicly criticized Sri Lanka over its human rights record for the first time on Thursday, setting the scene for a confrontation at a major international summit next month.Continue Reading
Despite significant human rights progress in Cambodia, freedom of expression has worsened, a UN expert told AFP, describing the situation as “a mixed bag”.Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Human rights groups on both sides of the border hope Canadian law will snare a former U.S. president for allegedly authorizing torture against detainees.Continue Reading