CHICAGO (Reuters) – Forces loyal to fallen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi committed a vast array of possible war crimes while battling rebels in Misrata, the country’s third largest city, according to a report issued on Tuesday by a U.S.-based human rig…Continue Reading
A human rights group demanded Monday that President Hugo Chavez’s government provide protection for an activist who had to flee Venezuela after being threatened for alleging human rights abuses in prisons.Continue Reading
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A military unit commanded by one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons appears to have been responsible for the summary execution of dozens of detainees in a warehouse near Tripoli last week, a human rights organization said on Monday.Continue Reading
TRIPOLI, Libya – Retreating loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi killed scores of detainees and arbitrarily shot civilians over the past week, as rebel forces extended their control over the Libyan capital, survivors and a human rights group said.Continue Reading
Retreating loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi killed scores of detainees and arbitrarily shot civilians over the past week, as rebel forces extended their control over the Libyan capital, survivors and a human rights group said Sunday.Continue Reading
TRIPOLI, Libya – Evidence indicates that loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi killed at least 17 detainees and arbitrarily executed dozens of civilians as rebels moved into Tripoli, a New York-based human rights groups said Sunday.Continue Reading
Evidence indicates that loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi killed at least 17 detainees and arbitrarily executed dozens of civilians as rebels moved into Tripoli, a New York-based human rights groups said Sunday.Continue Reading
China is considering changes to its criminal law that human rights activists said Saturday would effectively legalise the forced disappearance of dissidents.Continue Reading
London, Aug 27(ANI): The European Convention on Human Rights treaty has helped killers, rapists and terror suspects to fight for their causes and escape prosecution, according to a British daily.Continue Reading
Islamabad, August 27(ANI): Human rights activists and organisations in Pakistan and abroad have called upon the federal and the Punjab governments to investigate the abduction of Shahbaz Taseer and ensure his speedy recovery.Continue Reading
China is considering changes to its criminal law that human rights activists said Saturday would effectively legalise the forced disappearance of dissidents.Continue Reading
The U.N. human rights office has condemned an assault by police on its top official in South Sudan.Continue Reading
Beijing, Aug 26 (ANI): China will draft a new national program for human rights development for the period from 2012 to 2015 in a bid to improve people’s basic rights, Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, has said.Continue Reading
The dividing lines for the upcoming battle between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on human rights law were mapped out by the deputy prime minister today.Continue Reading
JUBA (Reuters) – A group of South Sudanese police officers assaulted the human rights director of the United Nations mission in the country last week, sources and internal documents said Thursday.Continue Reading