IOC/Saudi Arabia: End Ban on Women in Sport
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As the world prepares for the 2012 Olympics, the Saudi government is systematically discriminating against women in sports and physical education, and has never sent a female athlete to …Continue Reading
Questions and Answers on the Olympics, Women and Sports in Saudi Arabia
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1. Why is HRW focusing on discrimination against women in sports?read moreContinue Reading
Equatorial Guinea: Opposition Figure Held
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The detention without charge of Dr. Wenceslao Mansogo Alo, a medical doctor who is also a prominent human rights defender and opposition member in Equatorial Guinea, for more than five d…Continue Reading
Media Advisory – OHRC launches new guide on human rights and municipal planning
TORONTO , Feb. 15, 2012 /CNW/ – Attorney General John Gerretsen will join Barbara Hall , Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and Kingston Deputy Mayor Jim Neill to launch In the …Continue Reading
How Amnesty International’s intervention helped halt a forced eviction – for now…
The illegal demolition of the Railway Compound community in Port Harcourt, Nigeria was set to go ahead but then an urgent action and a rapid response appeal brought a temporary reprieve. Makmid Kamara reports.
At 6:45am there was a thump on the door….Continue Reading
مصر وجنرالاتها: بين الإنكار والقمع
مارس/آذار المنصرم، وعقب حملة قمعية عنيفة ضد المتظاهرين السلميين في ميدان التحرير، بالقاهرة، اعتقل الجيش المصري 18 امرأة كن يشاركن في الاحت…Continue Reading
China admits 'there is room to improve human rights in country'
Beijing, Feb 15 (ANI): China's Vice-President Xi Jinping has defended his country's record on human rights, saying it has made 'tremendous and well-recognized achievements' in the past 30 years, but also admitted that there was "ro…Continue Reading
Obama friendly but firm with China heir apparent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play by the same trade rules as other major world powers and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record. In White…Continue Reading
Rights advocates press White House while China's Xi visits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, enjoyed center stage in Washington on Tuesday, the wife of a jailed Chinese rights lawyer and other opponents of Beijing's grip on dissent said the Obama administration should …Continue Reading
Conn. rights panel rebukes mayor on 'tacos' remark
A Connecticut human-rights commission has rebuked a mayor who made a disparaging remark about Latinos.Continue Reading
Libya: Ex-Premier Needs Lawyer, Medical Care
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Abuzaid Dorda, the detained former Libyan prime minister and head of foreign intelligence under Muammar Gaddafi, needs immediate access to a lawyer and specialized medical care for injur…Continue Reading
Rights advocates press White House while China's Xi visits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, enjoyed center stage in Washington on Tuesday, the wife of a jailed Chinese rights lawyer and other opponents of Beijing's grip on dissent said the Obama administration should …Continue Reading
Obama greets China's Xi with friendly words, firm stance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play fair in international trade and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record. In White House talks, Obama soug…Continue Reading
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Salutes AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, was the keynote speaker at a major international conference marking the 40th anniversary of AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advanceme…Continue Reading
China's vice-president defends human rights record but says room for improvement
WASHINGTON – China's heir apparent leader has defended the county's widely criticized human rights record but acknowledged there is room for improvement.Continue Reading