Pak Human Rights Commission calls on government to abolish death penalty
Lahore, Oct 10 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has asked the Pakistan Government to abolish the death penalty.Continue Reading
Mental health stigma ‘human rights issue’
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced an $8.5 million campaign to end the stigma associated with mental illness.Continue Reading
UAE: Families’ Plea to Free Activists
The families of five activists jailed six months ago for “publicly insulting” United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials made a joint plea on October 9, 2011, to the country’s rulers to stop the activists’ trial…Continue Reading
Rights body blames parties for Karachi violence
Pakistan’s human rights body Saturday called for political parties to disband private militias and disarm criminal gangs to end bloodshed in the country’s commercial capital, Karachi.Continue Reading
Nobel peace award extends human rights tradition
OSLO (Reuters) – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize to three women from Liberia and Yemen extends the illustrious award’s tradition since the 1960s of honoring human rights and democracy activists as well as more conventional peacemakers.Continue Reading
The death penalty in Belarus: families’ painful wait
By Heather McGill, Amnesty International researcher on Belarus
A local newspaper in Belarus reported on 20 July this year that Andrei Burdyka and another man had been executed. The authorities, however, were silent. For two months, the families of the…Continue Reading
Nobel Prize Shows Role of Women in Democracy, Peace
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(New York) – The decision to award the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to three women, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman, recognizes that democracy and lasting peace cannot be achieved without giving women…Continue Reading
Syria slams critics at UN review of rights record
Syria’s deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that his nation is under attack from criminals who have killed 1,100 citizens with arms supplied by neighboring countries.Continue Reading
China: Release Nobel Laureate and Others Wrongly Jailed, Disappeared
The Chinese government should free the unjustly imprisoned Chinese writer and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, a year after the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize. …Continue Reading
Two high-profile human rights groups latest to quit B.C. missing women inquiry
VANCOUVER – The public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case lost another two participants Thursday just days before it opens as two high-profile human rights groups quit over what they described as a flawed process that will shut out society’s most-vul…Continue Reading
Côte d’Ivoire: Impartial Justice Poses Test for Ouattara
The government of President Alassane Ouattara should match its rhetorical commitment to impartial justice with action against its own troops implicated in crimes during the post-election violence and its aftermath…Continue Reading
Developing Technology for Social Change
By Owen Valentine Pringle, Director of Digital Communications, Amnesty International
The visionary co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, who sadly passed away on Wednesday, wanted us to Think Different, in support of the idea that “the people who are craz…Continue Reading
May And Clarke Meet Over Human Rights Split
Ken Clarke and Theresa May have met at Downing Street after the Justice Secretary criticised her for “laughable and childlike” examples of abuses of the Human Rights Act.Continue Reading
Burundi: Strengthen Support for National Human Rights Commission
The Burundian government should strengthen its support for the recently established National Independent Human Rights Commission.
(London) – The Burundian government should strengthe…Continue Reading
UN rights body to discuss Syria as death toll climbs
More than 2,900 people have been killed in Syria since the start of a crackdown on anti-regime protests, the UN said on Thursday a day before its human rights body was to discuss the situation.Continue Reading