Human Rights
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 08:14
Washington should call for a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan's warring parties, rights groups said in a letter published on Thursday, as analysts warned that fighting would flare up in the approaching dry season.
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 06:50
About 12,500 political prisoners in Uzbekistan - more than in the Soviet gulags at the height of the Cold War - are subjected to systematic torture: asphyxiation, electrocution, and beatings, human rights groups, former inmates, and researchers say.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 08:11
Freedom of speech in Azerbaijan was dealt a blow when the government shut down Radio Liberty.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 08:08
Barack Obama has pledged support for the Mexican government despite calls for him to withhold aid to the country’s security forces following a string of incidents in which military troops and police have been implicated in torture, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:56
Pakistan’s National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that would establish military courts to try civilian terrorism suspects.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:37
The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation recorded 8,899 short-term detentions of dissidents and activists in 2014. That was about 2,000 more than the previous year and four times as many as in 2010, said the group's head, Elizardo Sanchez
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:02
The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 07:58
Tunisia urged to abolish controversial law after blogger imprisoned for three years for criticising military.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 13:24
President Obama has just broken through the Cold War wall to normalize relations with Cuba. But elsewhere in Latin America, in Honduras, his administration is supporting a terrifying military takeover. For the first time in the 16-year history of the position, the country's president has just named an active-duty general from the Armed Forces, Julián Pacheco Tinoco, to be the country's new Minister of Security, with full jurisdiction over the domestic police. Pacheco's ascendance is just the latest in a dangerous militarization of post-coup Honduras.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:56
The Mexican president and his team started 2014 carrying out a slew of newly passed reforms, from breaking up telecommunications monopolies to opening the nation’s energy sector, earning him international plaudits, including a Time magazine cover with his image above the caption “Saving Mexico.”