Human Rights
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 08:54
Algerian authorities have been deploying large numbers of police and arresting protesters to prevent demonstrations in the capital ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, Human Rights Watch said.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 08:19
Saudi Arabia demanded that Qatar shut down Al-Jazeera and two think tanks during a recent meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a source close to someone who attended the talks told AFP Friday.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 07:53
On Tuesday March 4, the Department of State released the Congressional Budget Justification for the administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request. The report details how a requested base budget of $40.3 billion and an additional $5.9 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds would be spent on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, if approved.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 07:33
“Journalists are the most active among the creative people. President Ilham Aliyev continues the care of Heydar Aliyev to journalists and creative people.”
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 13:59
This week the head of Southcom said he can't stop 80 percent of drugs coming from Colombia, the U.S. government made increasingly critical statements against Venezuela's government and El Salvador almost got a new president. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region over the past week.
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 00:00
Citizen journalists, activists and other residents reported on social media as Military Police terrorized the community for several hours.
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 00:00
The government's arbitrary detention and excessive use of force against protesters and journalists, lack of due process, and the shutdown of foreign media and Internet, endanger human rights.
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 10:43
"Human rights violations as determined by the DoS, and corruption records, should be considered for participation on the NDN."
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 10:39
"Belarus, of course, and Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, etcetera -- those countries are looking pretty much uniquely at the Russian model and the Russian model is absolutely terrible," he said.
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 10:08
Hardline politicians, still smarting from President Rouhani's emphatic victory in last year's elections, also see this as an opportunity to step up the pressure to try to weaken the reformist government, including negotiations on the future of Iran's nuclear programme.