Women who defied al-Gaddafi regime not spared from brutal jails
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s researcher in Libya.
One of the grimmest features of the armed conflict in Libya has been the spate of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of thousands of suspected opponents of Colonel Mu’…Continue Reading
Nigeria’s forced evictions: All this was houses
By Amnesty campaigner Bridget Burrows,
“All this was houses”, Prince Peter says, pointing over the scar of Njemanze waterfront community. “My house was down there, under the mango tree, but now there is nothing, nothing left.”
Behind him wher…Continue Reading
Libya: Stop Arbitrary Arrests of Black Africans
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The de facto authorities in Tripoli, the National Transitional Council (NTC), should stop the arbitrary arrests and abuse of African migrant workers and black Libyans assumed to be merce…Continue Reading
Visual Journalism Grant to Honor Tim Hetherington
To honor the life and work of the late Tim Hetherington, Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo have established an annual visual journalism award focusing on human rights.
(New York) – T…Continue Reading
HRC rejection of TPP audit ‘blow to democratic process’
Human Rights Commission rejection of Trans-Pacific Partnership audit latest blow to democratic processContinue Reading
CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.Continue Reading
CIA and MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: Human Rights Watch
(Reuters) – Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.Continue Reading
Human rights complaint filed against Harper’s new director of communications
MONTREAL – A separatist firebrand in Quebec has filed an official complaint against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new choice for communications director.Continue Reading
Seafarers’ group taps ICT for human rights monitoring
With the rise of Internet usage as a basic human right, a seafarers’ advocacy group in the Philippines held a three-day seminar on information and communications technology (ICT) to help seafarers in reporting human rights and labor abuse cases. In a s…Continue Reading
Somalia: Stop Unfair Trials, Executions
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) should ensure that its military court respects basic fair trial standards, and should immediately halt executions. The TFG should also prohibit trials of civilians…Continue Reading
China: Account for Forcibly Returned Uighurs
China should account for Chinese citizens of Uighur ethnicity who were forcibly returned from three Asian countries on August 6 and August 8, 2011.
(Washington, DC) – China should account f…Continue Reading
China: Account for Forcibly Returned Uighurs
China should account for Chinese citizens of Uighur ethnicity who were forcibly returned from three Asian countries on August 6 and August 8, 2011.
(Washington, DC) – China should account f…Continue Reading
Rights groups urge Nepal Govt. to scrap amnesty of people involved in rights abuses
London, Sep.2 (ANI): Human rights groups have asked Nepal’s Maoist-led government to scrap any plans to grant amnesty to people involved in human rights abuses during years of conflict.Continue Reading
China blows whistle on our human rights stance
A confidential cable posted on whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says Chinese officials “sought answers” on how the Australian Government had been handling human rights issues.Continue Reading
Nepal: Cancel Pact for Wartime Amnesty
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai of Nepal and his government should honor commitments, both by the government and by the Maoist party, to ensure that perpetrators of human rights abuses during and after the countr…Continue Reading