Human Rights
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 06:39
Migrants detained in Libya before they attempt to make the deadly crossing over the Mediterranean to Europe face beatings, torture and squalid conditions before they risk their lives on the open sea. Amnesty International has warned the EU's plans to co-operate more closely with Libya on migration risk fuelling the rampant ill-treatment and indefinite detention.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 06:35
Bahrain suspended the tiny island kingdom's largest Shiite political group and froze its assets on Tuesday as part of a widening crackdown on activists and dissent five years after the country's Arab Spring protests.
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 07:07
Rio's hundreds of surveillance cameras are easy to view on the 85 square meter display in the panopticon-style Center for Integrated Command and Control (CICC) or the equally huge screen in the Operations Center of Rio (COR).
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 07:01
After the brutal dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983, in which the armed forces played a crucial role and commited systematic human rights violations, one of the main consensus of the country’s democratic system was that the military could no longer have the autonomy levels that it had during the 20th century. The U.S. government is becoming the most important ally of the Macri administration.
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 06:13
For years, Iran has been under economic sanctions for disregarding human rights. However, for such measures to be effective, they must apply to all countries in an equal fashion. Several countries in the Middle East have contravened international standards of human rights, and yet they have received very different treatment. A good case is Saudi Arabia.
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 06:32
Members of the notorious Zetas drug cartel turned the prison where they were being held in northern Mexico into a death camp where they tortured and killed around 150 people, and then incinerated the bodies or dissolved them in acid, the authorities say.
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 06:27
A U.S.-backed commission that helps provide justice for victims of human rights abuses in the Americas is in danger of collapse because of a severe cash crunch. Advocates say some donor governments may be happy to see the Washington-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights falter because it has harshly criticized them.
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 06:24
Two senators on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee are pressing ahead with their fight to limit American bomb sales to Saudi Arabia in protest for Riyadh's conduct of its military intervention in Yemen's civil war.
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 07:05
El Salvador’s high court declared conditions in the country’s overcrowded prisons unconstitutional in a ruling with implications for the government’s hard line policies aimed at defeating gangs.
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 07:00
Nagorno-Karabagh Republic (Artsakh/NKR) parliamentarian Lernik Hovhannisyan briefed Members of Congress and their senior aides regarding Azerbaijan’s recent escalation of violence against Artsakh and Armenia, during a full day of meetings on Capitol Hill on June 7.