WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Beijing must play fair in international trade and vowed to keep pressing China to clean up its human rights record. In White House talks, Obama soug…Continue Reading

SUBANG JAYA: Human rights bodies have criticised the deportation of a Saudi Arabian writer from Malaysia, with one of them saying he should have been granted asylum insteadContinue Reading

The U.N. human rights chief decried Syria's escalating crackdown on civilian protesters Monday and warned that the Security Council's failure to take action has emboldened the Syrian government to launch an all-out assault to crush dissent.Continue Reading

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The World Bank should promote civil society participation in proposed development programs in Burma. The World Bank’s board of directors is scheduled to meet on February 16, 2012, …Continue Reading

Human rights campaigners say they might ask the UK's highest court to consider what rights disabled air travellers could expect on board aircraft.Continue Reading

The U.N. human rights chief decried Syria's escalating crackdown on civilian protesters Monday and warned that the Security Council's failure to take action has emboldened the Syrian government to launch an all-out assault to crush dissent.Continue Reading

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Saudi authorities should free Hamza Kashgari and drop any charges against him based on comments he made on Twitter expressing his personal religious views. On the morning of February 12,…Continue Reading

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A major legal reform package to be introduced by the Turkish government leaves key problems with free speech and arbitrary detention unresolved.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief ramped up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, accusing his government of launching an "indiscriminate attack" on civilians and other grave human rights violations …Continue Reading