Ireland plans UN Rights Council bid
Ireland is to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first time, based on its commitment to justice and peace, Enda Kenny said.Continue Reading
EU worried at Egypt raids of human rights groups
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Friday police raids of pro-democracy and human rights groups’ offices in Egypt amounted to an “open demonstration of force” and urged the authorities to support civil society. Egyptian prosecutors and pol…Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia: Renewed Protests Defy Ban
Saudi reform advocates have staged several protests since mid-December, 2011, despite a categorical ban on protests issued last March.. In Riyadh, Buraida, and Qatif, security forces immediately arrested the prote…Continue Reading
Human Rights activist Ni refutes fraud in Beijing Court
Beijing, Dec 30 (ANI): Chinese Human Rights activist Ni Yulan, who has been charged with fraud and accused of making false statements to obtain payment, has pleaded not guilty in a Beijing Court.Continue Reading
Egypt police raid U.S.-backed pro-democracy groups
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian prosecutors and police raided offices of 17 pro-democracy and human rights groups on Thursday – drawing criticism from the United States which hinted it could review its $1.3 billion in annual military aid. The official MENA …Continue Reading
US ‘deeply concerned’ after Egypt raids NGO offices
A series of armed sweeps of democracy, justice, and human rights organizations in Egypt today drew denunciations from the US and from a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch who called the actions “unprecedented.”Continue Reading
Egypt forces storm offices of pro-democracy, human rights groups accused of fomenting protests
CAIRO – Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups on Thursday, including several based in the U.S., accused by the country's military rulers of destabilizing security by fomenting protests with the hel…Continue Reading
Egypt forces storm offices of pro-democracy groups
Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups on Thursday, including several based in the U.S., accused by the country’s military rulers of destabilizing security by fomenting protests with the help of foreign…Continue Reading
Russia blasts US for human rights abuses
Moscow, Dec 29 (ANI): Russia has criticized the United States for its human rights abuses, in its first-ever report on injustice in other countries.Continue Reading
Egypt: National and International Human Rights Organizations are Under Attack
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The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned about reports of attacks against NGOs in Egypt. Egyptian security forces, in uniform and in civilian clothes, as well as public prosecu…Continue Reading
Russia scolds United States for human rights abuse
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow’s first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing the…Continue Reading
Russia scolds United States for human rights abuse
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow's first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing…Continue Reading
Russia’s Trash-Talking America Just Isn’t What It Used to Be
The Russian Foreign Ministry just posted a scathing overview of the United States’ human rights violation — many of them obviously reference Guantánamo Bay and the Patriot Act — that sort of reads like an old issue of The Nation Magazine. It’s not n…Continue Reading
Cuba making good on pledge to free prisoners
Cuba appeared to be making quick progress in meeting a pledge to free 2,900 pardoned prisoners, most of them convicted of minor crimes, even as a top human rights official on the island criticized the year-end amnesty as a “media show.”Continue Reading
Russia slams US for its human rights record
Russia's Foreign Ministry has attacked America's human rights record in its first report on injustice elsewhere in the world, offering examples such as the Guantanamo Bay prison and wrongful death row convictions to paint the U.S. as hypocritic…Continue Reading