PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Human rights groups on Monday clamored for Haiti to arrest and prosecute former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity after his surprise return from 25 years in exile.Continue Reading

(New York) – Haiti should arrest and prosecute former dictator Jean‑Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier for grave violations of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
Duvalier returned to Haiti yesterday from France where he has lived in ex…Continue Reading

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Human rights groups on Monday clamored for Haiti to arrest and prosecute former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity after his surprise return from 25 years in exile.Continue Reading

MANILA, Jan 17 (Reuters) – The Philippines’ human rights commission said the government should consider withdrawing OceanaGold Ltd’s rights to a mining project because the Australian miner had violated rights of indigenous people.Continue Reading

MANILA, Jan 17 (Reuters) – The Philippines’ human rights commission said the government should consider withdrawing OceanaGold Ltd’s rights to a mining project because the Australian miner had violated rights of indigenous people.Continue Reading

If President Obama can raise just one human rights issue at the summit this week with Chinese President Hu Jintao, he should speak for China’s disappeared.
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Saturday 15 January: It was extremely calm, almost serene in Tunis this morning. It was hard to believe that only yesterday, thousands marched in the same streets calling for an end to President Zine al-Abidin Ben Ali’s rule, and got their wish.Continue Reading

By Diana Eltahawy in Tunis, Amnesty International researcher for North Africa

While I was making hectic last minute preparations to travel to Tunisia as part of an Amnesty International delegation looking into human rights violations, in the context …Continue Reading

KIEV, Ukraine — In recent years we have all discovered that law-based, civilized societies have used torture against terrorism suspects. Still, when I went to Ukraine in June to investigate the treatment of migrants, I did not expect to find torture….Continue Reading