Human Rights News
|
Goma -
A new report by United Nations human rights inspectors says Congolese troops carried out systematic rapes of women and girls numbering nearly 200 toward the end of last year.
|
|
Annapolis -
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley yesterday signed abolition of capital punishment into law in Maryland in a move welcomed by campaigners Amnesty International. Maryland becomes part of a worldwide trend away from state-sanctioned execution.
|
|
Athens -
That’s the opinion of a United Nations expert who warned yesterday that some of the austerity measures imposed on the Greek economy undermine Greek citizens’ access to jobs, health, water and energy.
|
|
Born three years before China annexed East Turkestan and named it Xinjiang, Rebiya Kadeer has lived a remarkable life. Born into poverty, she became one of China's seven richest persons and model citizen before she was imprisoned for rebellious activism.
|
|
Ottawa -
The UN will be probing Canada's human rights record, with particular emphasis on First Nations and women. The Harper government has agreed to the probe, but has some serious questions regarding some members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
|
|
In the statements made to the press by Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, an important truth was revealed on the nature of the unsettled.
|
|
The Supreme Court of the United States has stated that it cannot consider law suits brought against the United States by foreign countries.
|
|
The Shiite Al Wefaq opposition party in Bahrain has called on Bahrainis to gather for a major demonstration before the Formula One Grand Prix race scheduled to take place in the kingdom on Sunday.
|
|
Bahraini police have fired tear gas as they clashed with students as they raided a boys secondary school in the kingdoms capital Manama.
|
|
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called on the US to close its Guantanamo Bay detention camp, claiming that the US is in violation of international law.
|
apis-205135 apis-204444 apis-204336 apis-204052 apis-203911 apis-203423 apis-203158 apis-203073 apis-202956 apis-202061
|
Top News
topnews-right-205556 topnews-right-205541 topnews-right-205530 topnews-right-205537 topnews-right-205529 topnews-right-205551 topnews-right-205540 topnews-right-205550
Human Rights Image
Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch
Internally displaced persons in Iraq receive little, if any, governmantal support. Hassan, who is blind, fled his home in Taji, north of Baghdad, moving to Chikook with his wife and few belongings. He has no plan of moving back to his former neighborhood.
image:84386:0::0
Human Rights Blogs
|
On the surface the financial turnaround in Argentina is nothing short of miraculous, but dig a little deeper and the...
|
|
I had a confrontation with someone today and I must admit that what she told me affected me emotionally. Eventually, I...
|
|
copied from person blog: greenplanetwatch BC First Nations and supporters staged an information demonstration at...
|
|
Indonesia doesn't do excuses. In court, they like to see a little humility from the accused. Obviously, the people at...
|
|
A blurred image of a young woman kneeling near a hillside with men overlooking, brandishing guns in an apparently...
|
|
