Nobel Peace Prize for Arab Spring?
2011-09-29
The Arab Spring is the focus of speculation over this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, with an Afghan human rights activist and the European Union as possible outsiders.Continue Reading
Nobel Peace Prize for Arab Spring?
2011-09-29
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The Arab Spring is the focus of speculation over this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, with an Afghan human rights activist and the European Union as possible outsiders.Continue Reading
UN expert says Cambodia rights progress a ‘mixed bag’
2011-09-29
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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
Lithuania: Rights group calls for new CIA probe
2011-09-29
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A human rights group called on Lithuania on Thursday to reopen its investigation into CIA prisons and the alleged torturing of terrorist suspects based on what they said was new evidence of a rendition flight to the Baltic state.Continue Reading
Pak National Assembly committee terms drone strikes as violation of human rights
2011-09-29
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Islamabad, Sep 29(ANI): Expressing concern over the unabated drone attacks by the United States on Pakistani soil, the Pakistan National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights has said that it causes severe human rights violations.Continue Reading
ACLU alleges human rights violations in Los Angeles jails
2011-09-28
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Deputies in the Los Angeles County jail system have committed acts of violence against prisoners so grave they constituted human rights abuses, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report.Continue Reading
Cox Foundation pledges $500,000 to national center
2011-09-28
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Cox Enterprises has announced that the James M. Cox Foundation is pledging a $500,000 gift to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.Continue Reading
CSIS questioned Canadian in Gadhafi prison, human-rights group claims
2011-09-28
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OTTAWA – A human-rights group says agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service interrogated a Libyan-Canadian while he spent eight years in one of Moammar Gadhafi’s prisons.Continue Reading
HRW demands UN probe into Syrian woman’s death
2011-09-28
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An international human rights group is calling for a U.N. investigation into the possible role by Syrian security agents in the recent decapitation of an 18-year-old Syrian woman.Continue Reading
Vietnam cites London riots to defend rights record
2011-09-27
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Vietnam’s foreign minister pointed Tuesday to Britain’s response to August riots as he defended the human rights record of his government, which he said guaranteed fundamental freedoms.Continue Reading
New international human rights logo chosen in competition organized by Germany
2011-09-27
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BERLIN – Internet voters have chosen a new human rights logo, designed by a freelance graphic designer from Serbia.Continue Reading
At least 20 hurt as Syrian forces strafe Rastan
2011-09-27
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Syrian forces strafed the city of Rastan in central Homs province with machinegun fire from sunrise on Tuesday, wounding at least 20 people, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
At least 20 hurt as Syrian forces strafe Rastan
2011-09-27
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Syrian forces strafed the city of Rastan in central Homs province with machinegun fire from sunrise on Tuesday, wounding at least 20 people, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
At least 20 hurt as Syrian forces strafe Rastan
2011-09-27
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Syrian forces strafed the city of Rastan in central Homs province with machinegun fire from sunrise on Tuesday, wounding at least 20 people, a human rights group said.Continue Reading
Detained Canadian a ‘casualty of war on terror’
2011-09-27
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Human rights experts want to know why a mentally ill Canadian citizen sat in a secretive U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan for eight months without a consular visit, and more than 18 months behind bars in total.Continue Reading