World
Fugitive US intelligence agent Edward Snowden was jointly awarded a Swedish human rights award on Wednesday. “The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Digital Journal
All posts tagged "Rights"
World
A trial that some have dubbed the “Romanian Nuremberg” opens Wednesday in Bucharest, with the head of a brutal communist-era labour camp, known as...
World
The death toll in Ukraine’s conflict has soared past 3,000, likely by a significant margin, top UN human rights official Ivan Simonovic said Tuesday....
World
For a project whose end goal might be the removal from power of President Vladimir Putin, it had a very inauspicious start. During a...
World
Ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in jail after challenging the Kremlin, openly stated his political ambitions on Saturday by announcing he would...
World
From electric shocks and sexual violence to ripping out nails and teeth to extract confessions, torture has become so commonplace in Nigeria’s criminal justice...
World
Two doctors and a midwife went on trial in Argentina on Wednesday accused of delivering political prisoners’ babies and helping the country’s former military...
World
A German man who participated at a conference on LGBT rights was in intensive care Saturday after he was severely beaten by unknown attackers...
World
Tekoshin stands on a mountain in north Iraq with a rifle slung over her shoulder and a grenade tucked into her belt, facing jihadists...
World
The US Supreme Court this week made plans to revisit gay marriage, less than 15 months after its landmark decision that same-sex couples were...