Report: Chinese activist charged with subversion
A veteran Chinese activist has been charged with subversion, a human rights group said Saturday, after another dissident was jailed for nine years in a crackdown aimed at preventing Arab Spring-style democratic uprisings.Continue Reading
Report: Chinese activist faces subversion trial
A human rights group says another veteran Chinese activist has been charged with subversion as Beijing tries to prevent the spread of Arab Spring-style democratic uprisings.Continue Reading
World leaders bid farewell to Vaclav Havel
PRAGUE (Reuters) – International leaders bade farewell on Friday to former Czech President Vaclav Havel, the anti-communist dissident who led the peaceful “Velvet Revolution” and inspired human rights campaigners around the world. U.S. Secretary of Sta…Continue Reading
Iraq/MEK: Ensure Camp Residents’ Safety
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All parties involved with the UN plan to resolve the situation of Camp Ashraf residents should work to make sure it is carried out safely and effectively, Human Rights Watch said today. …Continue Reading
Cambodia: Revise or Abandon Draft NGO Law
Donors, who provide approximately half of Cambodia’s national budget, should make clear to the Cambodian government that the fourth draft of the Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO) must be revised to protect ci…Continue Reading
Debate abortion, unborn’s human rights says Tory MP Watson
Essex Conservative MP Jeff Watson supports a colleague’s call for parliamentary discussion about whether to give human rights to the unborn.Continue Reading
Afghan president to replace top human rights officials
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai will replace four people at the national human rights commission to bring fresh blood into the group, and not because he is seeking to remove some of his most outspoken critics, his spokesman said on Frid…Continue Reading
Afghan president to replace top human rights officials
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai will replace four people at the national human rights commission to bring fresh blood into the group, and not because he is seeking to remove some of his most outspoken critics, his spokesman said on Frid…Continue Reading
U.N. rights body denounces detention of China lawyer
BEIJING (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights body denounced on Friday the detention of one of China’s best known human rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, urging the government to release him. A Beijing court sent Gao back to jail earlier this month, th…Continue Reading
China dissident jailed for 9 years for "subversive" essays
BEIJING (Reuters) – Human rights advocate Chen Wei was sentenced to nine years in jail by a court in southwest China after a brief hearing on Friday in which he pleaded not guilty to subverting state power, the stiffest punishment in a crackdown on dis…Continue Reading
Rights advocate says Afghan president fired him
Afghanistan’s leading human rights activist said Friday that President Hamid Karzai has fired him and two others from the government’s own rights commission.Continue Reading
Afghan rights campaigner dropped from commission
Afghanistan’s most outspoken human rights activist has been dropped from the national rights commission, President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman confirmed Friday.Continue Reading
Malaysia: Revoke Law Banning Same-Sex Sexual Relations
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The Malaysian government should revoke its colonial-era law criminalizing consensual sexual acts between people of the same sex. The authorities should drop their criminal case alleging …Continue Reading
Jamaica: Ensure Voting Access for People With Disabilities
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Jamaican authorities should take prompt action to ensure that people with disabilities can vote in the elections on December 29, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
Iraq: Deadly Bombings an Assault on Human Rights
A series of bombings in Iraq on December 22, 2011, are an atrocious assault on basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, among the deadliest in Iraq this year, killed more than 60 people and …Continue Reading