London, Sept 8 (ANI): Many foreign killers, rapists and violent criminals in Britain were allowed to stay in the country last year because of its ‘crazy’ human rights laws, it has emerged.Continue Reading
The European Union said Thursday that it deeply regrets China’s exclusion of a human rights expert from a forum held in Beijing this week and it has communicated its disappointment to the Chinese side.Continue Reading
An international human rights group has called on Sri Lanka’s government to abolish abusive detention laws and to free thousands of people being held under them.Continue Reading
In May 2005, Amnesty International in London called the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our times.” That heated rhetoric set off a firestorm of criticism not only from top government officials – President Bush called it an “absu…Continue Reading
An international human rights group urged Vietnam to shut down drug rehabilitation centers that it said subject inmates to abuse and forced labor. It also called Wednesday on international donors to check the programs they fund inside the centers for p…Continue Reading
An advocacy group has alleged Australia may be indirectly facilitate human rights abuses by funding inhumane drug rehabilitation services in Vietnam.Continue Reading
A leading human rights group on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch an independent investigation of alleged atrocities committed in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, saying the country’s own probe into the matter was flawed.Continue Reading
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – Dozens of international human rights groups will gather in Tokyo on Wednesday to urge the North Korean regime to halt its inhumane activities and release a South Korean woman believed to be held captive at a prison camp, …Continue Reading
Myanmar has formed a National Human Rights Commission in response to an appeal by a UN envoy for the new government to investigate alleged abuses, an official said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Myanmar’s nominally civilian government has formed a National Human Rights Commission to investigate reported abuses, state-run media reported Tuesday, although a similar body in 2000 failed to have any impact.Continue Reading
Australia violated the human rights of a Swedish-born convicted criminal and should let him return, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled.Continue Reading
Australia has been accused of breaching international law and violating the human rights of a permanent resident who was deported four years ago.Continue Reading
Leonard Peltier, an indigenous rights activist jailed in the United States for decades, has received the first Mario Benedetti Foundation international human rights prize, the group said Monday.Continue Reading
Europe’s human rights chief urged Lithuania, Poland and Romania on Monday to investigate the roles their governments allegedly played in the CIA’s program of “secret detention and torture” of terrorism suspects.Continue Reading
Human Rights Commission rejection of Trans-Pacific Partnership audit latest blow to democratic processContinue Reading