Testimonios desde Bahréin: Un hospital sitiado
Testimonio de un profesional médico del Complejo Médico de Salmaniya de Manama.
Jueves 17 de marzo de 2011
A la mañana siguiente de que se decretara la ley marcial en Bahréin, fui a trabajar temprano al Complejo Médico de Salmaniya y me encontré …Continue Reading
‘Crazy’ human rights laws allowing violent criminals to stay on in UK
London, Sept 8 (ANI): Many foreign killers, rapists and violent criminals in Britain were allowed to stay in the country last year because of its ‘crazy’ human rights laws, it has emerged.Continue Reading
Expert excluded from EU-China human rights forum
The European Union said Thursday that it deeply regrets China’s exclusion of a human rights expert from a forum held in Beijing this week and it has communicated its disappointment to the Chinese side.Continue Reading
Rights group urges Sri Lanka to end detention laws
An international human rights group has called on Sri Lanka’s government to abolish abusive detention laws and to free thousands of people being held under them.Continue Reading
Platon, Matthew Marks Gallery Sale Benefits Human Rights Watch
The Matthew Marks Gallery is sponsoring a limited-edition sale of 20 portraits of world leaders by Platon, staff photographer at The New Yorker and contributor of iconic covers to Time Magazine and other publicati…Continue Reading
Sri Lanka: ‘Bait and Switch’ on Emergency Law
Emergency regulations lifted in Sri Lanka do not affect existing and new laws that allow the government to detain people for long periods without trial.
(New York) – Emergency regulations l…Continue Reading
The decade since 9/11 has eroded – and confirmed – American values
In May 2005, Amnesty International in London called the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our times.” That heated rhetoric set off a firestorm of criticism not only from top government officials – President Bush called it an “absu…Continue Reading
Uzbekistan: US Shouldn’t Green-Light Aid
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The US Congress should reject an Obama administration proposal to drop restrictions on assistance to the Uzbek government that are linked to that government’s atrocious human rights re…Continue Reading
Testimonios desde Bahréin: Recuerdos de la esposa de un activista encarcelado
Khadija al Mousawi y su esposo, Abdulhadi al Khawaja, encarcelado. © Particular
Por Khadija al Mousawi, esposa de Abdulhadi al Khawaja, defensor de los derechos humanos encarcelado
Era viernes, y nos habíamos reunido toda la familia en el aparta…Continue Reading
Testimonies from Bahrain: A hospital under siege
By a medical worker from Salmaniya Medical Complex in Manama.
Thursday 17 March 2011
The morning after martial law was announced in Bahrain, I went to work at the Salmaniya Medical Complex early, only to find that the hospital had been seized by the mi…Continue Reading
Rights group: Forced labor in Vietnam drug centers
An international human rights group urged Vietnam to shut down drug rehabilitation centers that it said subject inmates to abuse and forced labor. It also called Wednesday on international donors to check the programs they fund inside the centers for p…Continue Reading
Australia ‘funding’ abusive rehab centres
An advocacy group has alleged Australia may be indirectly facilitate human rights abuses by funding inhumane drug rehabilitation services in Vietnam.Continue Reading
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من أبشع مظاهر الصراع المسلح في ليبيا موجة الاعتقالات التعسفية والاختفاءات القسري…Continue Reading
Group urges independent Sri Lanka war crimes probe
A leading human rights group on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch an independent investigation of alleged atrocities committed in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, saying the country’s own probe into the matter was flawed.Continue Reading
Groups gather in Japan to save S. Korean prisoner in N. Korea
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – Dozens of international human rights groups will gather in Tokyo on Wednesday to urge the North Korean regime to halt its inhumane activities and release a South Korean woman believed to be held captive at a prison camp, …Continue Reading