More families of single soldiers allege death benefit discrimination
OTTAWA – The families of at least four unmarried soldiers killed in Afghanistan have stepped forward to file human-rights complaints.Continue Reading
Philippines: Soldiers on the School Grounds
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During a recent eight-day investigation in the Cordillera Autonomous Region on northern Luzon island, Human Rights Watch found five cases in which the military, in violation of Philippi…Continue Reading
Historic Myanmar trip for Hillary Clinton: Enough focus on human rights? (video)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton steps into one of the world’s most repressive countries Wednesday with her arrival in Burma (Myanmar) – the first secretary of State to trod Burmese soil since John Foster Dulles in 1955.Continue Reading
UAE: Expunge Activists’ Convictions
The decision to commute the sentences of five activists recognizes that they should not have been prosecuted in the first place, but authorities should also expunge the convictions from their records.
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Families seek truth and justice over French custody deaths
By Kartik Raj, Campaigner at Amnesty International
It is four years since Lamine Dieng died during an arrest in Paris, but as his sisters Ramata and Fatou Dieng browse through black and white photographs of their dead brother, their emotions are still …Continue Reading
Iraq/Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization: Cooperate With UN
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Both the leadership of the exiled Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization and the Iraqi government should fully cooperate with the UN refugee agency, Human Rights Watch s…Continue Reading
Regional law society says assembly law breaches human rights
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 — LawAsia, an international society of lawyers, judges and legal experts said today Malaysia has directly or indirectly breached the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in passing the Peaceful Assembly Bill.Continue Reading
Pressure mounts on Syria’s Assad at home and abroad
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad, with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out. European and Arab diplomats told Re…Continue Reading
Pressure mounts on Syria’s Assad at home and abroad
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad, with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out. European and Arab diplomats told Re…Continue Reading
Pressure mounts on Syria’s Assad at home and abroad
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad, with growing foreign condemnation of his repression of the Syrian uprising and attacks by armed rebels that his forces appear unable to stamp out. European and Arab diplomats told Re…Continue Reading
Exclusive: U.N. rights forum poised to condemn Syria
GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights forum is expected to condemn Syria for crimes against humanity at an emergency session on Friday, European and Arab diplomats said. The move is also designed to put pressure on China and Russia to …Continue Reading
Côte d’Ivoire: Gbagbo’s ICC Transfer Advances Justice
The transfer of former President Laurent Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for his alleged role in international crimes during Côte d’Ivoire’s devastating post-election violence is…Continue Reading
Israel: Lift Travel Ban on Human Rights Defender
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Israeli authorities in the West Bank should lift the travel ban imposed since 2006 on West Bank resident Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, Amnest…Continue Reading
AJC Calls UN Human Rights Report a Damning Indictment of Assad Regime
Contact: CONTACT: Kenneth Bandler, AJC Director of Media Relations, +1-212-891-6771, +1-917-449-1259 (cell), bandlerk@ajc.orgContinue Reading
UN rights expert starts probing Iran rights abuses
A UN expert tasked with investigating alleged human rights abuses in Iran will talk to Iranian activists in France, Germany and Belgium this week after a request to visit the country itself was refused.Continue Reading