Groups urge Medvedev – bring rule of law to Chechnya
Russian human rights activists appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday to intervene to stop extrajudicial kidnappings and enforce the rule of law in the country’s predominantly Muslim region of Chechnya.Continue Reading
Hundreds of Kenyans still missing after crackdown
Hundreds of men who disappeared in 2008 during a military crackdown against a militia in western Kenya remain missing, human rights activists said Wednesday as human bones are turning up in drains, rivers and shallow graves.Continue Reading
UN condemns ‘cluster bomb use’ by Libyan regime
The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed the Libyan regime for the alleged use of cluster bombs in Misrata, saying such attacks on densely populated urban areas could be international crimes.Continue Reading
Western diplomats: Countries working to hold urgent UN rights meeting on Mideast unrest
GENEVA – Several members of the U.N.’s top human rights body are pressing for an emergency meeting to examine the government crackdowns against popular protests that have swept the Middle East and North Africa, Western diplomats said Wednesday.Continue Reading
Urgent UN rights meeting on Mideast unrest planned
Several members of the U.N.’s top human rights body are pressing for an emergency meeting to examine the government crackdowns against popular protests that have swept the Middle East and North Africa, Western diplomats said Wednesday.Continue Reading
HC issues notice to Centre, Delhi govt on human rights courts
New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) The Delhi High Court today sought a response from the Centre and the city government on a PIL seeking a direction to establish Human Rights courts here.Issuing notices to the governments, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak …Continue Reading
UN rights chief: Libyan gov’t attacks against civilians in besieged city may be war crimes
GENEVA – The U.N.’s top human rights official warned Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday that his forces may be committing war crimes by using heavy weapons against civilians in the besieged port city of Misrata.Continue Reading
Russia: Joint Letter to President Medvedev regarding Human Rights Situation in the North Caucasus
On April 20 Human Rights Watch and three Russian human rights organizations held a news conference in Moscow to release their joint appeal to President Medvedev on the complete failure of Chechen Republic investigative authorities to deal with abductio…Continue Reading
Chinese human rights lawyer returns home from enforced disappearance, wife says
BEIJING, China – The wife of a prominent human rights lawyer who disappeared for two months amid a massive Chinese security crackdown says her husband has returned home and appears to be well.Continue Reading
Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi Warns of Deadly Crackdown in Iran
Two years after fleeing Iran, the Nobel Peace Prize winner says human-rights violations are rising in her homeland and opposition leaders are virtually prisoners, Babak Deghanpisheh reports. Plus, Ebadi’s letter to the U.N. about the crackdown.Continue Reading
Indonesia: Ensure Security in Religious Killings Trial
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Indonesian authorities should ensure the safety of all those attending the trial of 11 men charged in the deadly February 2011 attacks on the Ahmadiyah community in the village of Cikeus…Continue Reading
Indonesia: Ensure Security in Religious Killings Trial
Indonesian authorities should ensure the safety of all those attending the trial of 11 men charged in the deadly February 2011 attacks on the Ahmadiyah community in the village of Cikeusik in western Java.
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Indonesia: Ensure Security in Religious Killings Trial
Indonesian authorities should ensure the safety of all those attending the trial of 11 men charged in the deadly February 2011 attacks on the Ahmadiyah community in the village of Cikeusik in western Java.
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US and key nations disagree with independence supporters on human rights in Western Sahara
The U.S. and other key nations are backing a new U.N. resolution on the disputed Western Sahara that mentions human rights for the first time, but the group promoting independence for the mineral-rich north African territory said Tuesday it doesn’t go …Continue Reading
Hungary: New Constitution Enshrines Discrimination
(New York) – The new Hungarian constitution approved by parliament contains provisions that could lead to discrimination, Human Rights Watch said today. President Pál Schmitt should send the constitution back to Parliament to address these and other h…Continue Reading