ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Syria has repeatedly blocked United Nations requests to admit human rights monitors, said a U.N. official who stressed that regional bodies such as the Arab League are key to reaching a long-term political solution to the crisis.Continue Reading
Lawyers for a prominent Zimbabwean human rights activist say state security officials prevented him from leaving the southern African nation for a conference in Ireland on rights violations.Continue Reading
Four former foreign ministers have called on Prime Minister David Cameron to use his landmark trip to Moscow challenge Russia over human rights, in comments published Sunday.Continue Reading
The producers of New York’s Fashion Week have canceled a show scheduled for next week by the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan amid pressure from a human rights group and a planned protest over the use of child labor in her country.Continue Reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The organizers of New York Fashion Week have canceled a planned show by the designer daughter of Uzbekistan’s leader Islam Karimov, who has been accused of human rights abuses.Continue Reading
A leading human rights worker said Friday that authorities have detained two former political prisoners in eastern Cuba, the first arrests involving members of a group of 75 intellectuals and social commentators since they were freed after a 2003 crack…Continue Reading
The PR firm that helped former Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffi and the wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad manage their images has a new, pretty ironic client, Mother Jones reported today. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, is now working for Human Rig…Continue Reading
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said Friday a stronger U.S. economy is in China’s interest and he will promote trade and human rights as the new envoy in Beijing, a focal point for U.S. diplomacy.Continue Reading
A human rights group is calling on Iraqi authorities to probe the killing of a journalist who criticized the government and helped organize pro-reform protests.Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – Two lawsuits by three Chinese dissidents and a human rights group accusing Cisco Systems Inc. of abetting imprisonment and torture could have far-reaching impact on how U.S. technology companies conduct business in authoritarian reg…Continue Reading
The Human Rights Watch lobby group on Wednesday urged Sri Lanka to scrap draconian detention laws and free thousands of people held under the regulations.Continue Reading
The Human Rights Watch lobby group on Wednesday urged Sri Lanka to scrap draconian detention laws and free thousands of people held under the regulations.Continue Reading
A Jordanian human rights group found no clear evidence to support allegations of rape made by several female workers at one of the country’s largest garment-makers exporting to the United States, according to an investigative report obtained by The Ass…Continue Reading
Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) To ensure fast disposal of rights violation cases, the West Bengal government has set up human rights courts in all the state’s 19 districts, a minister said Thursday, claiming the state was the first to do so.Continue Reading
Despite removing draconian wartime laws, Sri Lanka’s government is using new “abusive” regulations to keep hundreds of people in jails without trial, an international human rights groups said.Continue Reading