US-China to hold human rights talks next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China will hold talks on human rights in Beijing next week, including discussions on detentions, arrests and freedom of religion, the State Department said on Thursday.Continue Reading
US-China to hold human rights talks next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China will hold talks on human rights in Beijing next week, including discussions on detentions, arrests and freedom of religion, the State Department said on Thursday.Continue Reading
China-US to hold rights dialogue amid crackdown
The U.S. State Department says its diplomats will discuss recent forced disappearances and detentions of Chinese dissidents during human rights talks in Beijing next week.Continue Reading
US-China to hold human rights talks next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China will hold talks on human rights in Beijing next week, including discussions on detentions, arrests and freedom of religion, the State Department said on Thursday.Continue Reading
U.S.-China to hold human rights talks next week
The United States and China will hold talks on human rights in Beijing next week, including discussions on detentions, arrests and freedom of religion, the State Department said on Thursday.Continue Reading
Prominent Bahraini rights activist goes on trial
A prominent Bahraini human rights activist went on military trial on Thursday, his daughters said, after the Gulf Arab kingdom launched a crackdown on protesters.Continue Reading
Misratah: A city of tears
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International crisis researcher
Yesterday, as forces loyal to Libyan leader Colonel M’uammar al-Gaddafi retreated from Gheiran, one of the Misratah’s neighbourhoods located just to the south of the centre of thi…Continue Reading
Clinton: Gadhafi may be using cluster bombs
The Obama administration said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi’s government may be targeting Libyan civilians with cluster bombs, cautiously endorsing claims by rebels and human rights groups that the Libyan strongman’s troops are using the indiscriminate…Continue Reading
Syria: Rein in Security Services
(New York) – President Bashar al-Asad’s decision to lift the state of emergency should be accompanied by concrete measures to halt the grave daily human rights violations being committed by Syria’s security forces, Human Rights Watch said today. Human …Continue Reading
Clinton: Gadhafi may be using cluster bombs
The Obama administration said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi’s government may be targeting Libyan civilians with cluster bombs, cautiously endorsing claims by rebels and human rights groups that the Libyan strongman’s troops are using the indiscriminate…Continue Reading
Iraq: Widening Crackdown on Protests
(New York) – Kurdistan authorities should end their widening crackdown on peaceful protests in northern Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should hold accountable those responsible for attacking protesters and journalists in Arbil and…Continue Reading
Cuba’s ‘Ladies in White’ receive US rights award
A Cuban opposition group whose members are wives and relatives of jailed dissidents received a major human rights award Thursday from the US State Department.Continue Reading
Clinton: Gadhafi may be using cluster bombs
The Obama administration said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi’s government may be targeting Libyan civilians with cluster bombs, cautiously endorsing claims by rebels and human rights groups that the Libyan strongman’s troops are using the indiscriminate…Continue Reading
Clinton: Gadhafi may be using cluster bombs
The Obama administration said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi’s government may be targeting Libyan civilians with cluster bombs, cautiously endorsing claims by rebels and human rights groups that the Libyan strongman’s troops are using the indiscriminate…Continue Reading
Pushing Romania to see housing as a human right
By Barbora Cernusakova, Researcher in the EU Team, and Fotis Filippou, Campaigner in the EU Team
In a few hours, we will leave Romania after spending two and a half weeks researching the housing conditions of Roma. We visited 11 communities in five t…Continue Reading