A UN envoy called on Myanmar Thursday to urgently investigate human rights abuses, saying serious concerns remained despite signs of an improvement under the new nominally civilian government.Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar said on Thursday he had urged the country’s military government to free what he called “large numbers” of political prisoners if they wanted to create a genuine democracy.Continue Reading
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar said on Thursday he had urged the country’s military government to free what he called “large numbers” of political prisoners if they wanted to create a genuine democracy.Continue Reading
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency is unable to challenge the corrupt politicians who cling to power in the oil-rich nation, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Thursday.Continue Reading
The U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar said Thursday at the end of his visit to the country its new government should release all political prisoners.Continue Reading
Egypt’s leading human rights groups said on Wednesday they will complain to the United Nations that the ruling military and cabinet are cracking down on civil society groups.Continue Reading
The Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights criticizes the motives and legality of the current investigations and trials of Yulia Tymoshenko in their report “Legal Monitoring in Ukraine 2”.(PRWEB) August 24, 2011 The Danish Helsinki Committee for Hu…Continue Reading
An international human rights group on Wednesday accused law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh of routinely torturing suspects and carrying out hundreds of extrajudicial killings.Continue Reading
DHAKA (Reuters) – Human rights group Amnesty International accused Bangladesh of unlawful killings by its special police force, urging the government to keep its promise of ending illegal executions.Continue Reading
DHAKA (Reuters) – Human rights group Amnesty International accused Bangladesh of unlawful killings by its special police force, urging the government to keep its promise of ending illegal executions.Continue Reading
On Tuesday, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted 33-4 to condemn Syria’s deadly crackdown on protesters and launch an investigation into atrocities allegedly committed by Syrian security forces, with Russia and China voting against the resolution and t…Continue Reading
The United Nations has ordered an investigation into possible crimes against humanity in Syria and demanded an immediate end to the regime’s violent crackdown.Continue Reading
The U.N.’s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand that Syria end its bloody crackdown and cooperate with an international probe into possible crimes against humanity.Continue Reading
GENEVA – The U.N.’s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand that Syria end its bloody crackdown and co-operate with an international probe into possible crimes against humanity.Continue Reading
Slum housing and poor health conditions endured by South African farmworkers amount to human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday about the men and women who produce some of the country’s best-known exports — wines and f…Continue Reading