US human rights report looks at China with concern
Three disturbing global trends – growing crackdowns on civil-society activists, countries restricting Internet access, and a rising repression of vulnerable minorities – are the focus of the State Department’s annual human rights report issued Fr…Continue Reading
Venezuela worse, Colombia better on rights: US
Human rights conditions worsened over the past year in Venezuela and remained high in Cuba, but improved in Colombia, the US State Department said Friday in an annual review.Continue Reading
Burundi: 2 Years After Activist Slain, Justice Stalled
(Bujumbura) – The government of Burundi should complete its investigations and deliver justice for the killing two years ago of Ernest Manirumva, a Burundian anti-corruption activist, seventeen Burundian and international nongovernmental organizations …Continue Reading
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara pledges human rights body – U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara has pledged to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Friday.Continue Reading
US: Human rights worsen in China; Vietnam, Thailand step up Internet censorship
WASHINGTON – The United States said Friday that rights abuses have worsened in China in the past two months with the detentions of dozens of activists, while repression of dissidents has increased in Vietnam and Internet censorship has widened in Thail…Continue Reading
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara pledges human rights body – UN
Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara has pledged to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Friday.Continue Reading
US highlights pre-uprising rights abuses in Mideast
The United States charged Friday that human rights abuses were “especially serious” last year in Bahrain, Libya and Syria, now hit by mass uprisings that it says raise hope for a brighter future.Continue Reading
Peru: Investigate Islay Province Killings
(Washington, DC) – Peru should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killing of 3 demonstrators and injuring of at least 31 others during confrontations with the police in Islay province, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Clinton urges China to free activists
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged China to free dozens of government critics rounded up this year and said the Asian power’s human rights record has been worsening.Continue Reading
Facebook, Human Rights Groups Side With YouTube Against Viacom
Facebook, Freedom House, Yahoo, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture and 44 law professors are siding with YouTube and Google against Viacom’s newest legal appeal.Continue Reading
US highlights pre-uprising rights abuses in Mideast
The United States charged Friday that human rights abuses were “especially serious” last year in Bahrain, Libya and Syria, now hit by mass uprisings that it says raise hope for a brighter future.Continue Reading
Serbia and Roma: Why we need to keep asking questions
By Amnesty International’s Andrea Huber and Sian Jones in Belgrade
We went to observe the consultation of the Belvil Roma community today, which took place in an empty former petrol station in the vicinity of the settlement, by a representative o…Continue Reading
Serbia and Roma: Why we need to keep asking questions
By Amnesty International’s Andrea Huber and Sian Jones in Belgrade
We went to observe the consultation of the Belvil Roma community today, which took place in an empty former petrol station in the vicinity of the settlement, by a representative o…Continue Reading
US says China rights on ‘negative trend’
China’s human rights record is on a “negative trend” with growing restrictions on freedom of speech and “severe repression” in the Tibet and Xinjiang regions, a US report said Friday.Continue Reading
Hope and uncertainty in Milan camp for Roma
By Matteo de Bellis, Amnesty International Italy campaigner
We are visiting one of the Roma camps that the Italian authorities want to dismantle ahead of the 2015 EXPO in Milan.
On an unseasonally hot day at the Triboniano Camp, we can see the signs of…Continue Reading