Human Rights
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 08:42
Finally, despite the many human rights monitoring centers in Iraq, there is no mechanism to promote human rights on the ground, since there’s no serious will to do so on the part of the political administration or the ruling coalition.
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 07:10
Some 1,000 inmates in the penitentiary have been on hunger strike since February 7, protesting what they call abusive prison conditions.
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 06:55
The sides also exchanged views on strengthening cooperation with the UN treaty bodies in the field of human rights, improving national legislation and practice in the field of prevention of torture.
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 06:43
In a statement issued on February 7, Steve Swerdlow of the New York-based rights watchdog said, "Saidov's conviction starkly illustrates that the Tajik government will neither accept criticism nor the role of opposition parties in a democratic society."
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 06:41
Turkmenistan has been called an isolationist state and a "hermit kingdom" for many reasons, but one reason is surely the difficulty of getting objective information from the country.
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 00:00
El ministro de Defensa responsabilizo al presidente de no autorizar abrir los archivos y el presidente lo desmintio en publico y le traslado esa decision.
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 08:53
The overall objective of the action is to contribute to the eradication of torture and other forms of ill-treatment in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
OSCE Special Representative expresses attitude over Azerbaijani journalist’s deportation from Turkey
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 08:01
Mijatovic referred to this as being another wrong action in Turkey's attitude towards press freedom.
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 07:58
According to the newspaper Zaman, the reason for deportation is Zeynalov's critical publications of the government of Turkey and Prime Minister Erdogan .