UN Human Rights Council: Yemen Resolution Falls Far Short
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The United Nations Human Rights Council’s weak response to the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Yemen betrays the Yemeni people. The Council, whose current session ended…Continue Reading
May ‘wants Human Rights Act gone’
Home Secretary Theresa May has risked angering Liberal Democrat Cabinet colleagues by throwing her weight behind calls for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped.Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE – Experts urge Commonwealth action on human rights
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.Continue Reading
Exclusive: Experts urge Commonwealth action on human rights
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.Continue Reading
Obama to headline gay rights dinner
President Barack Obama is headlining the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner Saturday night, addressing the gay rights group less than two weeks after the military ended its ban on openly gay service members, an effort Obama championed.Continue Reading
UN rights office criticizes Bahrain sentences
The U.N. human rights office on Friday questioned the fairness of a Bahrain court that sentenced an anti-government protester to death and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical staff who treated the injured during the country’s uprising.Continue Reading
Rights group calls on Libya to stop prisoner abuse
Human Rights Watch called on Libya’s new rulers to stop armed groups from rounding up suspected Moammar Gadhafi supporters and abusing them, saying Friday that some detainees reporting beatings and electric shocks had the scars to prove it.Continue Reading
Iran: Christian Pastor Faces Execution for ‘Apostasy’
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Iranianauthoritiesshouldimmediately free pastor Yousef Nadarkhani and drop all charges against him. Nadarkhani, who has been charged with apostasy and is in Rasht prison in northern Iran…Continue Reading
Libya: Cease Arbitrary Arrests, Abuse of Detainees
The National Transitional Council (NTC), the de facto authority in most of Libya, should work to stop militia groups from making arbitrary arrests and abusing detainees in prisons and makeshift detention facilitie…Continue Reading
Testimonios desde Bahréin: Detenidos por atender a personas heridas
El 29 de septiembre, después de escribir este blog, su autora y otros 19 trabajadores y trabajadoras de los servicios de salud fueron condenados a prisión por el Tribunal de Seguridad Nacional de Primera Instancia.
Trabajo en el servicio de salud d…Continue Reading
U.N. human rights inquiry demands access to Syria
GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed rights commission urged Syria to let it into the country to investigate reports of killings and torture, including of children, during six months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.Continue Reading
Right Livelihood Award: Standing up for Victims of Chad’s Ex-Dictator
The decision to give the Right Livelihood Award to Jacqueline Moudeïna, the lawyer for the victims of the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, highlights the victims’ 20-year que…Continue Reading
Vietnam: Free Religious Activists Immediately
Vietnamese authorities should immediately end their crackdown on religious activists and free 15 people detained for expressing their beliefs.
(New York) – Vietnamese authorities should imm…Continue Reading
UN rights office raises Bahrain trial ‘irregularities’
The UN human rights office on Friday raised concerns about heavy sentences handed down by a Bahraini court on over 50 protesters in the country, noting that there were “serious due process irregularities.”Continue Reading
Bolivia: Investigate Crackdown on Protesters
Bolivian authorities should ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation of alleged abuses on September 25, 2011, by police against indigenous protesters outside of Yucumo, in Beni Department.
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