The U.N.’s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand that Syria end its bloody crackdown and cooperate with an international probe into possible crimes against humanity.Continue Reading

Slum housing and poor health conditions endured by South African farmworkers amount to human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday about the men and women who produce some of the country’s best-known exports — wines and f…Continue Reading

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council launched an international commission of inquiry on Tuesday into Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity, despite objections by Russia, China and Cuba.Continue Reading

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council launched an international commission of inquiry on Tuesday into Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity, despite objections by Russia, China and Cuba.Continue Reading

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 23 (Bernama) — A human rights activist failed to obtain anorder from the Court of Appeal here to stay the trial of a defamation suit filedagainst him, which was scheduled tomorrow.Justices Datuk Zainun Ali, Datuk Zaharah Ibrahim and Ana…Continue Reading

Slum housing and poor health conditions endured by South African farmworkers amount to human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday about the men and women who produce some of the country’s best-known exports — wines and f…Continue Reading