The European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia on Thursday for letting Moscow ban gay pride marches simply because officials there disliked homosexuals and their lifestyle.Continue Reading

The European Parliament awarded its top human rights prize on Thursday to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, whose hunger strike this year helped pressure Havana into releasing political prisoners.Continue Reading

The European Parliament awarded its annual human rights prize on Thursday to Guillermo Farinas, the Cuban dissident whose 134-day hunger strike helped draw attention to the plight of political dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown on dissent.Continue Reading

The U.N.’s cultural and education agency on Thursday suspended plans to grant a prize named after Equatorial Guinea’s longtime dictator, after human rights groups slammed the award by citing the leader’s poor human rights record.Continue Reading

North Korea must carry out its promises to give up its nuclear program, but improvements in human rights will also be vital to any relations with the United States, a US official said Thursday.Continue Reading

(New York) – The European Parliament’s award of its Sakharov prize for human rights to Guillermo Fariñas, the Cuban dissident who held a hunger strike to call for the release of other political prisoners, is a welcome step, Human Rights Watch said tod…Continue Reading