Human Rights
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 08:02
Since 2009, hundreds and possibly thousands of refugees, most of them Eritrean, have been kidnapped in eastern Sudan and sold to traffickers in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, where they are held and tortured until their relatives can raise tens of thousands of dollars in ransom money.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 07:02
Earlier this month, the White House released a Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on United States Conventional Arms Export Policy. The announcement was touted as an arms policy upgrade for meant to promote exports of U.S. arms and technical support systems and to stipulate the restraints involved in authorizing sales and transfers of arms and associated technology.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 06:13
Press freedom watchdog the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued a report Tuesday detailing the extraordinary hardships faced by journalists working in Egypt in 2013.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 06:06
ANHRI condemned the alleged torture the “political” detainees are facing in a statement it released on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 05:43
It slammed the resolution, being a flagrant interference in Bahrain's internal affairs and an attempt to defame the Kingdom's independent judiciary.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 05:41
Bahrain today affirmed its commitment to the CEDAW Convention general frameworks. The guidelines include particularly the rule of the law, transparency of democratic work, development based on respect of justice, human rights, social dialogue.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 00:00
On Tuesday, Feb. 4, the Mexican senate withdrew Mexico's reservation to the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons that allowed military authorities to investigate and punish the crime of enforced disappearance.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 00:00
"la cobertura mediatica que estan recibiendo los lamentables hechos de violencia generados en algunos lugares del pais pudiese ser considerada violatoria a lo dispuesto en el articulo 27."
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 12:24
The Penal Law already made it an offence to deliberately publish false news that was hostile to the 17 February Revolution.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 11:22
The U.S. Congress has again given the State Department the go-ahead to give military aid to Uzbekistan in spite of concerns about the country's poor record on human rights, a State Department official has told The Bug Pit.