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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Attorney general seeks to halt Mountie's human rights hearing
Canada's attorney general is trying to stop the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from hearing a long-serving aboriginal B.C. Mountie's complaints of discrimination within the RCMP.Continue Reading
Drop Bersih charges against PR leaders, says human rights group
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Human Rights Watch today urged the government to drop charges against Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders for taking part in the April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally, saying that there seems to be targeted political prosecution.Continue Reading
Indonesia to report 'frank assessment' of human rights record
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – The Indonesian government says it will deliver a frank assessment of the country's human rights record when it reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Indonesia to report 'frank assessment' of human rights record
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – The Indonesian government says it will deliver a frank assessment of the country's human rights record when it reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Indonesia to report 'frank assessment' of human rights record
Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – The Indonesian government says it will deliver a frank assessment of the country's human rights record when it reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday.Continue Reading
Philippines fails on human rights performance, says group
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – Saying Philippine President Benigno Aquino III had failed to fulfill his promises, an international body on Monday called anew on him to relentlessly pursue military and police abusers of human rights so that th…Continue Reading
Philippines fails on human rights performance, says group
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – Saying Philippine President Benigno Aquino III had failed to fulfill his promises, an international body on Monday called anew on him to relentlessly pursue military and police abusers of human rights so that th…Continue Reading