Mirwaiz seeks human rights’ intervention in youth’s custodial death
Srinagar, Aug 3 (ANI): Reacting to the recent custodial killing of a youth, the chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has turned to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to look into alleged human righ…Continue Reading
Sri Lanka: No Justice in Massacre of Aid Workers
The Sri Lankan government’s failure to bring to justice those responsible for the execution-style slaying of 17 aid workers five years ago highlights a broader lack of will to prosecute soldiers and police f…Continue Reading
Russia: Chechen Human Rights Lawyer Threatened
Threats by the police against a lawyer in Chechnya highlight the need for Russian authorities to end the harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders in the republic.
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The Arc’s Statement on Budget Deal and Impact on People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Arc, the nation’s largest and oldest human rights organization for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, released the following statement from its CEO Peter V. Berns on the passage of the budget and debt ceiling deal in Wash…Continue Reading
Human rights groups protest North Korea’s chairmanship of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament
A coalition of 28 human rights groups, led by the Geneva-based United Nations watchdog group U.N. Watch, is urging the world’s countries to protest North Korea’s chairmanship of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament.Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s Draft Counterterrorism Law a Setback for Human Rights
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the human rights implications of the draft Law of Sanctions for Crimes of Terrorism and Its Financing of 2011 (the “draft counterterrorism law”). The flaws of the draf…Continue Reading
UN rights chief warns Syrian regime ‘world is watching’
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned Syrian authorities that the “world is watching” their deadly crackdown against protesters and that attempts at imposing a news blackout were not working.Continue Reading
Rights group urges Saudi monarch to scrap terror law
Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.Continue Reading
Rights group urges Saudi monarch to scrap terror law
Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.Continue Reading
AFP in Basilan accused of torture anew
A day after Malacañang said it would go after human rights violators, a male youth has accused Basilan-based Armed Forces soldiers of torture anew. GMA News’ “24 Oras” reported that the alleged torture victim was arrested on June 23, 2011 in his B…Continue Reading
Sri Lanka accused of war report whitewash
Human rights campaigners on Tuesday accused Sri Lanka of whitewashing military abuses in its official report on the island’s decades-long ethnic war, which ended in May 2009.Continue Reading
Las mujeres iraníes piden que se actúe contra las violaciones en grupo
Miembro del equipo iraní de Amnistía Internacional
Como activista de derechos humanos que soy, no me sorprende oír historias espantosas. No obstante, la reciente oleada de violaciones en grupo y agresiones sexuales en Irán pone de relieve el aument…Continue Reading
Szoke quits as human rights commissioner
Victoria’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Helen Szoke, has quit after three years in the job.Continue Reading
Deporting sex offenders living on taxpayers’ money in UK breaches their ‘human rights’!
London, Aug 2 (ANI): A dangerous sex offender in Britain, whose claim for asylum was rejected eight years ago, is still living in the country and costing the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.Continue Reading
24 killed in Syria as Ramadan begins: activist
At least 24 civilians were killed by security forces across Syria, including 10 after evening prayers on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a human rights activist said on Tuesday.Continue Reading