The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
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The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
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The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
read moreContinue Reading
The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
read moreContinue Reading
The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
read moreContinue Reading
The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
read moreContinue Reading
The Distance Lurks Behind Your Eyes
Remarks delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Herta Müller, on the occasion of the Human Rights Watch Celebration Dinner at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Friday, May 6, 2011
read moreContinue Reading
Human rights lawyer says Revillame’s rights violated
A human rights lawyer has come to the defense of television host Willie Revillame, who has been accused of child abuse in criminal and administrative cases filed before five different government offices. Attorney Romeo Capulong, president of the Public…Continue Reading
U.N. rights investigators seek facts on bin Laden death
U.N. human rights investigators called on the United States on Friday to disclose whether there had been any plan to capture Osama bin Laden and if he was offered any “meaningful prospect of surrender and arrest.”Continue Reading
16 killed in Syria protests, rights group says
A human rights group says Syrian security forces have killed 16 people during widespread protests.Continue Reading
Afghanistan to get Indian help in upholding human rights
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) India’s apex human rights body, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), will help Afghanistan in promoting human rights, prevent trafficking of women and children and investigate rights abuses.Continue Reading
ASEAN: Reject Burma as Regional Group’s Chair
(New York) – The Philippine government should lead members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in rejecting Burma’s request to chair the regional grouping in 2014 until the Burmese government takes genuine steps towards improving huma…Continue Reading
Activist: 6 killed in Syria by security forces
A human rights activist says Syrian security forces have killed six people during widespread protests on Friday.Continue Reading
Siamak Pourzand: Persecuted to death, harassed after death
By Drewery Dyke, Amnesty International’s Iran researcher
Siamak Pourzand, a veteran journalist and former prisoner of conscience, has committed suicide in Tehran at the age of 80.
Frail, infirm and unable to bear further indignity, without even …Continue Reading
U.S. URGED TO LOOK INTO CHINA’S OVERALL HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT
BEIJING, May 6 (Bernama) — The United States should pay more attention tothe development of human rights in China rather than at individual cases thatinvolve the violations of the Chinese laws, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankaisaid. He said China was …Continue Reading