Australia violated the human rights of a Swedish-born convicted criminal and should let him return, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled.Continue Reading

The Angolan authorities should immediately end the use of unnecessary and disproportionate force against demonstrators. It should also ensure the protection of demonstrators and journalists covering anti-governmen…Continue Reading

Europe’s human rights chief urged Lithuania, Poland and Romania on Monday to investigate the roles their governments allegedly played in the CIA’s program of “secret detention and torture” of terrorism suspects.Continue Reading

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

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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

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

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’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