Republican US foreign policy "wolf" shows her teeth
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For years, U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been busy lecturing world leaders over human rights abuses.Continue Reading
Republican foreign policy "wolf" shows her teeth
For years, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been busy lecturing world leaders over human rights abuses.Continue Reading
Is Brazil Ready to Investigate Past Human-Rights Abuses?
With a former left-wing guerrilla and political prisoner as President, Brazil inches toward confronting decades-old charges of murder, torture and forced exileContinue Reading
Hosni Mubarak’s Human-Rights Horrors
Torture, imprisonment, repression of dissent, murder, disappearances—as the Egyptian regime teeters, dissidents and bloggers look back on three decades of abuses.Continue Reading
On a mission through Cairo
By Amnesty International staff in Egypt
Yesterday, reunited with our two colleagues, we saw flashbacks of the denouement of our last hours of separation. Our night time chase across Cairo’s ghastly streets late on Friday and in the early hours of S…Continue Reading
Omar raps Army, tells them to avoid human rights violations
Srinagar, Feb 6 (PTI) In the wake of the killing of an innocent youth in North Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today pulled up the Army for violating the Standard operating Procedure and directed security agencies to completely avoid violation of…Continue Reading
U.N. rights office shifts into high gear on crises
GENEVA (Reuters) – Often criticised for failing to tackle abuses in authoritarian countries, the U.N. human rights office has leapt into action recently to denounce leaders clinging to power in Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Egypt.Continue Reading
US envoy on N.Korea rights to visit Seoul
The US special envoy on human rights in North Korea is to visit South Korea this week to meet with senior Seoul diplomats and defectors from the reclusive North, according to the foreign ministry in Seoul.Continue Reading
A Dictatorship Defaults
Among the Middle East’s authoritarian leaders, there’s a mantra: economic development takes precedence over civil freedoms and human rights. Things such as free speech, assembly, association and competitive elections – these will only lead to instabili…Continue Reading
Bush’s Swiss visit off after complaints on torture
GENEVA (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire from human rights group over allegations of ordering torture, has cancelled a visit to Switzerland where he was to address a Jewish charity gala.Continue Reading
Bush’s Swiss visit off after complaints on torture
Former U.S. President George W. Bush under fire from human rights group over allegations of ordering torture has cancelled a visit to Switzerland where he was to address a Jewish charity gala.Continue Reading
Bush’s Swiss visit off after complaints on torture
Former U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire from human rights group over allegations of ordering torture, has canceled a visit to Switzerland where he was to address a Jewish charity gala.Continue Reading
Egypt: Foreign Rights Activists Freed; Egyptian Activists Still Held
(New York, February 4, 2011) – Egyptian authorities on February 4, 2011, released researchers from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and two foreign journalists, but should immediately free Egyptian colleagues who are still detained, Human R…Continue Reading
Human rights group urges US to stop deportations of the sick to Haiti
MIAMI – The United States should stop deporting Haitians who are seriously ill or who have family members in America, a human rights group said Friday.Continue Reading
Human rights group urges US to stop deportations of the sick to Haiti
MIAMI – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is urging the United States to stop deporting Haitians who are seriously ill or who have family members in this country.Continue Reading