TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.Continue Reading
MONTREAL – A separatist firebrand in Quebec has filed an official complaint against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new choice for communications director.Continue Reading
With the rise of Internet usage as a basic human right, a seafarers’ advocacy group in the Philippines held a three-day seminar on information and communications technology (ICT) to help seafarers in reporting human rights and labor abuse cases. In a s…Continue Reading
London, Sep.2 (ANI): Human rights groups have asked Nepal’s Maoist-led government to scrap any plans to grant amnesty to people involved in human rights abuses during years of conflict.Continue Reading
A confidential cable posted on whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says Chinese officials “sought answers” on how the Australian Government had been handling human rights issues.Continue Reading
Justice Minister Simon Power and Minister for Disability Issues Tariana Turia have today announced the appointment of Paul Gibson as a part-time Human Rights Commissioner responsible for disability issues.Continue Reading
The Nation — Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his life struggling against autocracy in Syria and the last forty years battling the iron-fisted rule of Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Hafez al-As…Continue Reading
BRUSSELS – Europe’s human rights chief launched a blistering attack Thursday on European governments’ counterterrorism actions, accusing them of helping the United States commit “countless” crimes in the past 10 years.Continue Reading
Europe’s human rights chief launched a blistering attack Thursday on European governments’ counterterrorism actions, accusing them of helping the United States commit “countless” crimes in the past 10 years.Continue Reading
Europe’s human rights chief launched a blistering attack Thursday on European governments’ counterterrorism actions, accusing them of helping the United States commit “countless” crimes in the past 10 years.Continue Reading
Foreign banks with investments in Zimbabwe are enabling human rights abuses by failing to stop local partners from facilitating illegal sales of the country’s diamonds, rights groups said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that …Continue Reading
Human rights activists have criticised China for jailing a Tibetan lama for 11 years over the death of a young monk who set himself alight.Continue Reading
Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that …Continue Reading