UN raps Australia over Swedish crim
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
UN rules man’s deportation from Australia illegal
Australia has been accused of breaching international law and violating the human rights of a permanent resident who was deported four years ago.Continue Reading
Angola: Stop Repression of Anti-Government Protests
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
Indigenous US activist Peltier wins rights prize
Leonard Peltier, an indigenous rights activist jailed in the United States for decades, has received the first Mario Benedetti Foundation international human rights prize, the group said Monday.Continue Reading
Rights chief urges probe of CIA detention centers
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
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