The U.N. human rights office says the government of Congo’s continuing repression threatens to endanger the democratic process for the critical November presidential vote and may prompt postelection violence.Continue Reading

The bombings by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram that killed at least 100 people in the northern Nigerian state of Yobe on November 4, 2011 were an indefensible attack on human life.

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The Malaysian government should immediately rescind a police-imposed ban on the fourth annual Seksualiti Merdeka festival and adopt measures to protect all Malaysians from discrimination…Continue Reading

Now in its 22nd year, the 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival makes its debut in Nairobi, Kenya with an extraordinary program of films set to inspire, inform, and spark debate. The films will demonstrate the pow…Continue Reading

Human rights must be more than a dream. A committee composed of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, Metro Human Relations Commission, Church of Scientology, My Global Voice, the United Nations Association and the Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council will…Continue Reading