Nepal urged to investigate all conflict-era crimes
Kathmandu (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) – Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum have jointly called on the Nepal government to investigate and prosecute all persons responsible for wartime abuses, such as disappearances and killings.Continue Reading
Human rights plea to UN
It said restriction of visits to Sharmila without the permission of the home department was curtailment of her basic human rights and fundamental freedom.Continue Reading
US: President Should Veto Detainee Bill
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US President Barack Obama should hold firm on his promise to veto a bill passed by the Senate on December 1, 2011, which contains provisions on the detention of terrorism suspects that w…Continue Reading
Arrest Bush during Africa trip: human rights group
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amnesty International on Thursday called on Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia to arrest former U.S. President George W. Bush for human rights abuse when he visits the region this month. During his time as President from 2001 to 2009, B…Continue Reading
Lowe and Partners Launches UN Human Rights Day 2011 Campaign at Geneva Press Conference
LONDON & GENEVA & NEW YORK–(BUSINESSWIRE)– www.celebratehumanrights.org Lowe Chairman Tony Wright & UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay reveal digital and social media campaign A global campaign by Lowe …Continue Reading
Nepal: No Amnesties for Wartime Abuses
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Five years after the end of Nepal’s civil war, victims are still waiting for justice, Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum said in a joint report released today.
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UN: Syrian death toll exceeds 4,000 since March
The death toll from Syria’s crackdown on an 8-month-old revolt has exceeded 4,000 people and the country’s leaders should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Thursday.Continue Reading
UN rights chief says Syria death toll over 4,000
The U.N.’s top human rights official says her office estimates the death toll in Syria’s nine-month uprising is now “much more” than 4,000.Continue Reading
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