Rights News

- A bill of rights should be created to govern the Internet in the wake of revelations about the depth of government surveillance, the inventor of the World Wide Web said on Wednesday.Tim Berners-Lee made the proposal as part of the "web we want" campaig...

Cairo - A doctor in Egypt will face trial for performing a female circumcision operation that killed a teenage girl, a judicial official said on Tuesday.The 14-year-old girl's father who took her to the doctor for the procedure will also face trial, the offici...

Seoul - Human rights groups have questioned the wisdom of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London taking a production of Hamlet to North Korea, but stopped short of calling for the plan to be scrapped.The Globe will perform the play in the secretive state in Sep...

New York - UN chief Ban Ki-moon said there is still much progress to be made to advance women's rights, despite recent strides, as he opened an annual conference on women Monday.Among priorities are health needs, maternal and child health, sexual education, contr...

Bangui - A group of UN-mandated investigators launch a probe Monday of human right violations in the conflict-ravaged Central African Republic amid fears of genocide and ethnic cleansing.The three international investigators will spend two weeks travelling the ...

Nicosia - In the 40 years since Marios Kouloumas saw his father led away by Turkish soldiers he has been unable to mourn him, even though he knows he's dead.His father is one of hundreds of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who disappeared during a decade of unrest and...

Madrid - Thousands rallied in Spanish cities on Saturday to mark International Women's Day with noisy demonstrations for equality at work and against the government's bid to curb abortion rights.The annual awareness day drew particular attention this year with ...

Tehran - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who coordinates nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, arrived in Tehran on Saturday, media reported.Her visit comes amid a recent thaw in Iran's strained relations with the West following last year's ele...

Colombo - Sri Lankan authorities halted excavations after recovering 81 skeletal remains from an unmarked mass grave atop an old burial ground in the island's former war zone, an official said Saturday.Judicial medical officer Dhananjaya Waidyaratne said digging...

March 8 is International Women's Day, an event that has been running since 1908. This year the United Nations is marking the day with the theme of 'Equality for Women'. However, as some media reports point out, there is a long way to go.