Lee says N. Korea human rights more urgent than nukes
North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday.Continue Reading
Kenya: Refugees Describe Abuse by Police
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Kenyan police arbitrarily arrested, detained, and beat refugees following the discovery of explosives and an attack on a police vehicle in the Dadaab refugee camps in mid-May 2012. Senio…Continue Reading
« On ne s’est pas battus pour ça » : le problème endémique de la violence et de la torture dans la nouvelle Libye
Par Diana Eltahawy, spécialiste de la Libye à Amnesty International
Ce n’est un secret pour personne que les violences physiques et la torture ont pris une ampleur endémique dans la Libye post-Kadhafi.
Depuis le printemps 2011, Amnesty Interna…Continue Reading
« Nous ne sommes plus sans voix », disent des manifestants à Shell
Par Makmid Kamara, chargé de campagne sur le Nigeria, Amnesty International
Lorsque les actionnaires de Shell se réuniront à Londres et aux Pays-Bas pour l’Assemblée générale annuelle de la société, des centaines de pe…Continue Reading
Philippines faces tough grilling on human rights record
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – The Philippine government will be represented by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in the universal periodic review before the United Nations Human Rights Council later this month in Geneva, Switzerland.Continue Reading
Philippines faces tough grilling on human rights record
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – The Philippine government will be represented by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in the universal periodic review before the United Nations Human Rights Council later this month in Geneva, Switzerland.Continue Reading
N. Korea human rights more urgent than nukes: Lee
North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday.Continue Reading
N. Korea human rights more urgent than nukes: Lee
North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday.Continue Reading
China: Unaccountable “Chengguan” Forces Fuel Public Resentment
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China’s “chengguan,” the para-police agency tasked with enforcing non-criminal urban administrative regulations, is in some circumstances a threat to, rather than a guarantor of, p…Continue Reading
Vietnam: Free Catholic Activists
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Vietnamese authorities should immediately release four Catholic activists accused of conducting propaganda against the state and drop the charges against them.
UN rights chief presses Zimbabwe PM on poll violence
HARARE (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday called on Zimbabwe to take steps to prevent a repeat of 2008 political violence in elections that are due next year. She spoke after meeting Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Ts…Continue Reading
Zimbabwe must prevent political violence: UN rights chief
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday said Zimbabwe must take steps to prevent a recurrence of the deadly violence that engulfed the last presidential election four years ago.Continue Reading
Attorney general tries to stop retired aboriginal Mountie's human-rights hearing
OTTAWA – The Harper government is trying to block the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from hearing a retired aboriginal Mountie's complaints about the alleged discrimination and harassment he faced over the course of his long RCMP career.Continue Reading
‘Not what we fought for’: Endemic beatings and torture in the new Libya
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher
It is no secret that beatings and torture are endemic in post-Gaddafi Libya.
Since spring 2011, Amnesty International has met countless people who described being beaten, electrocuted, …Continue Reading
Thousands tell Shell: Own up. Pay up. Clean up.
Joe Westby, Demand Dignity Corporate Campaigner, Amnesty International
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