Afghan women, justice at risk, Oxfam warns
Two new reports paint an unnerving portrait of human rights in Afghanistan and warn the international community, including Canada, not to trade women or justice in order to achieve peace.Continue Reading
Afghan women, justice at risk, Oxfam warns
Two new reports an unnerving portrait of human-rights in Afghanistan and warn the international community, including Canada, not to trade women or justice in order to achieve peace.Continue Reading
British home secretary seeks Human Rights Act scrapped
London, Oct 3 (IANS) British Home Secretary Theresa May wants the Human Rights Act should be scrapped as it is hindering the Home Office’s efforts to deport terrorist suspects, RIA Novosti reported Sunday.Continue Reading
Home Secretary: ‘Scrap Human Rights Act’
Theresa May wants to scrap the Human Rights Act because she says it is hampering moves to deport dangerous foreign criminals and terrorist suspects, but her comments have sparked a furious debate.Continue Reading
Parents: Kids forced to strip in Mexico school
Mexico’s Human Rights Commission is investigating an elementary school for allegedly forcing sixth-graders to strip down after $13 disappeared.Continue Reading
UK Home Secretary Theresa May wants Human Rights Act to be axed
London, Oct 2 (ANI): British Home Secretary Theresa May has called for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped saying that it hinders the government’s attempts to deport dangerous foreign criminals and terrorist suspects.Continue Reading
May risks coalition rift with new human rights attack
Theresa May issued another demand for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped this morning, threatening a rift in the coalition.Continue Reading
UAE: Trial of Activists ‘Fundamentally Unfair’
The trial of five activists detained nearly six months ago for “publicly insulting” the United Arab Emirates president and other top officials is fundamentally unfair. The charges should be dropped and the act…Continue Reading
UN Human Rights Council: Yemen Resolution Falls Far Short
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The United Nations Human Rights Council’s weak response to the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Yemen betrays the Yemeni people. The Council, whose current session ended…Continue Reading
May ‘wants Human Rights Act gone’
Home Secretary Theresa May has risked angering Liberal Democrat Cabinet colleagues by throwing her weight behind calls for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped.Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE – Experts urge Commonwealth action on human rights
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.Continue Reading
Exclusive: Experts urge Commonwealth action on human rights
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.Continue Reading
Obama to headline gay rights dinner
President Barack Obama is headlining the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner Saturday night, addressing the gay rights group less than two weeks after the military ended its ban on openly gay service members, an effort Obama championed.Continue Reading
UN rights office criticizes Bahrain sentences
The U.N. human rights office on Friday questioned the fairness of a Bahrain court that sentenced an anti-government protester to death and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical staff who treated the injured during the country’s uprising.Continue Reading
Rights group calls on Libya to stop prisoner abuse
Human Rights Watch called on Libya’s new rulers to stop armed groups from rounding up suspected Moammar Gadhafi supporters and abusing them, saying Friday that some detainees reporting beatings and electric shocks had the scars to prove it.Continue Reading