Testimonies from Bahrain: A hospital under siege
By a medical worker from Salmaniya Medical Complex in Manama.
Thursday 17 March 2011
The morning after martial law was announced in Bahrain, I went to work at the Salmaniya Medical Complex early, only to find that the hospital had been seized by the mi…Continue Reading
Rights group: Forced labor in Vietnam drug centers
An international human rights group urged Vietnam to shut down drug rehabilitation centers that it said subject inmates to abuse and forced labor. It also called Wednesday on international donors to check the programs they fund inside the centers for p…Continue Reading
Australia ‘funding’ abusive rehab centres
An advocacy group has alleged Australia may be indirectly facilitate human rights abuses by funding inhumane drug rehabilitation services in Vietnam.Continue Reading
النساء اللاتي تحدين نظام القذافي لم ينجين من السجون الوحشية
بقلم ديانا الطحاوي، باحثة منظمة العفو الدولية في ليبيا
من أبشع مظاهر الصراع المسلح في ليبيا موجة الاعتقالات التعسفية والاختفاءات القسري…Continue Reading
Group urges independent Sri Lanka war crimes probe
A leading human rights group on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch an independent investigation of alleged atrocities committed in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, saying the country’s own probe into the matter was flawed.Continue Reading
Groups gather in Japan to save S. Korean prisoner in N. Korea
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) – Dozens of international human rights groups will gather in Tokyo on Wednesday to urge the North Korean regime to halt its inhumane activities and release a South Korean woman believed to be held captive at a prison camp, …Continue Reading
Vietnam: Torture, Forced Labor in Drug Detention
People detained by the police in Vietnam for using drugs are held without due process for years, forced to work for little or no pay, and suffer torture and physical violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report r…Continue Reading
Tunisia: Government Lifts Restrictions on Women’s Rights Treaty
Tunisia’s lifting of key reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an important step toward gender equality. The Tunisian government should next en…Continue Reading
Myanmar announces human rights commission
Myanmar has formed a National Human Rights Commission in response to an appeal by a UN envoy for the new government to investigate alleged abuses, an official said Tuesday.Continue Reading
Testimonies from Bahrain: Memories of a jailed activist’s wife
Khadija al-Mousawi and her jailed husband ‘Abdulhadi al-Khawaja © Private
By Khadija al-Mousawi, wife of imprisoned human rights defender ‘Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
It was on a Friday when we gathered in my daughter Fatima’s flat as a famil…Continue Reading
Las mujeres que desafiaron a Gadafi no se libran de la brutalidad de la cárcel
Por Diana Eltahawy, investigadora sobre Libia de Amnistía Internacional
Una de las características más sombrías del conflicto armado en Libia ha sido la oleada de detenciones arbitrarias y desapariciones forzadas de miles de presuntos opositores …Continue Reading
Myanmar establishes human rights commission
Myanmar’s nominally civilian government has formed a National Human Rights Commission to investigate reported abuses, state-run media reported Tuesday, although a similar body in 2000 failed to have any impact.Continue Reading
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