‘I am a modern-day slave’: Sub-Saharan Africans in Libya
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher
In Libya, undocumented Sub-Saharan Africans have never had it easy.
During Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s rule, they were at risk of arrest, indefinite detention, torture …Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch: ‘Unreported Stories’ Photo Exhibit
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Human Rights Watch will present a photography exhibition, “Unreported Stories,” with the award-winning photographer Brent Stirton of Reportage by Getty Images. The exhibition will be…Continue Reading
Clinton presses Azerbaijan on human rights
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Azerbaijan on Wednesday to show greater respect for human rights during a brief trip to the oil- and gas-exporting Caspian Sea nation. In a roughly five-hour visit, Clinton balanced her conc…Continue Reading
Rights groups rally around Pakistan lawyer under threat
GENEVA (Reuters) – Major human rights groups called on Pakistan on Wednesday to protect a prominent lawyer and investigate allegations that Pakistani military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill her. Asma Jahangir, who has pursued human righ…Continue Reading
Risk of international fatigue on tackling ‘repressive’ Belarus
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Zhanna Litvina, chairwoman of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, has a big black stamp planted right in the middle of a page in her passport, reading: “Travel temporarily restric…Continue Reading
Rights groups rally around Pakistan lawyer under threat
GENEVA (Reuters) – Major human rights groups called on Pakistan on Wednesday to protect a prominent lawyer and investigate allegations that Pakistani military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill her.Continue Reading
Rights groups rally around Pakistan lawyer under threat
GENEVA (Reuters) – Major human rights groups called on Pakistan on Wednesday to protect a prominent lawyer and investigate allegations that Pakistani military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill her.Continue Reading
Rights groups rally around Pakistan lawyer under threat
GENEVA (Reuters) – Major human rights groups called on Pakistan on Wednesday to protect a prominent lawyer and investigate allegations that Pakistani military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill her. Asma Jahangir, who has pursued human righ…Continue Reading
Equatorial Guinea: Opposition Figure Pardoned
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The pardon by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea of Dr. Wenceslao Mansogo Alo, the prominent political opponent and human rights defender, is a positive step. T…Continue Reading
In communist NKorea, inequality assigned at birth
In the supposed workers' paradise of North Korea, inequality is assigned at birth, a study by a U.S.-based human rights group says.Continue Reading
Liberia: Ivorian Government Foes Wage, Plot Attacks
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Armed militants hostile to the Ivorian government have recruited Liberian children and carried out deadly cross-border raids on Ivorian villages in recent months, Human Rights Watch said…Continue Reading
Pak should probe plot to kill rights activist Asma Jahangir: Human Rights Watch
Islamabad, June 6 (ANI): Pakistan should launch an investigation into allegations that elements in the country's military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill the prominent human rights activist Asma Jahangir, a human rights organization …Continue Reading
Lawyer Says Pakistan Spies Aiming To Kill Her
One of Pakistan's leading human rights activists has told Sky News she fears for her life after receiving information from a "credible source" that she is being targeted for assassination.Continue Reading
Thorny human rights reform put off at OAS meeting
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) delayed on Tuesday the controversial reform of its human rights panel, which a growing number of Latin American nations have criticized. The leftist leaders of Bolivia, Ecuador, …Continue Reading
North Korea political caste system behind abuses: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A caste system under which North Korea ranks its citizens based on their family's political background and punishes those deemed disloyal to the leadership underpins the country's human rights abuses, according to a study…Continue Reading