(Dhaka) – Ministers from Asian labor-sending countries meeting in Dhaka this week should together endorse protections for migrant workers, Human Rights Watch, Migrant Forum in Asia, and CARAM Asia said in a briefing paper released today.
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The Obama administration will oppose Syria’s candidacy to the United Nations’ top human rights body, an official said Monday, calling the Arab country’s attempt to gain a seat in the organization “hypocritical” while it uses violence to try to silence …Continue Reading

By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s crisis researcher.
Here in Misratah, Libya’s third city, we have just experienced four more days of relentless shelling by Colonel al-Gaddafi’s forces.  In just two of the residential neighb…Continue Reading

By Diana Eltahawy, Libya researcher at Amnesty International.
In normal times, Dhehiba is a quiet, small town in southern Tunisia, three kilometres away from the country’s border with Libya. Today, times here are anything but normal. This area is e…Continue Reading

Por Donatella Rovera, investigadora de Amnistía Internacional sobre situaciones de crisis.
He llegado hoy a Misratah tras un viaje por mar de 18 horas. Al acercarnos al puerto, nos dio la sensación de que a lo mejor tendríamos que dar la vuelta po…Continue Reading

Washington, April 18 (IANS) Satellites that helped us gather real-time data from the most inaccessible and hostile places on earth can also help us track human rights abuses that cause misery to millions of people around the world.Continue Reading

(Misrata) – Libyan government forces have launched indiscriminate rocket and mortar attacks on residential neighborhoods in the rebel-held city of Misrata, Human Rights Watch said today. One strike, apparently by a Grad rocket, killed at least eight c…Continue Reading