Human Rights
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 00:00
“To investigate such matters in this country is very difficult. We can't take the risk. Also no local authority would provide us with such evidence.”
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 00:00
La justicia militar declino juzgar al Teniente de Infanteria Cesar Eleuterio Chavez Soto, quien ejecuto a una menor secuestrada por presuntos integrantes del grupo criminal “Los Zetas”, y turno el caso a la justicia civil
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 00:00
Since the publication of her tell-all book, “Los Senores del Narco” (published in English as "Narcoland"), Hernandez has been under the protection of Mexico City authorities
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 00:00
In 2011, Israel Arenas Duran disappeared in northern Mexico. Why can't the government find him -- and the thousands of others who've gone missing in the country's drug war?
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 13:15
The details of the charges are still unclear, but we question whether Mr. Mammadli’s detention is related to his organization’s election monitoring and reporting activities.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 09:51
"The new bill contains a precise and clear definition of terrorist crime, unlike the old law, where the definition of the crime of terrorism was loose and open to many interpretations," explained Chakib Darwish, a spokesman for the ministry.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 09:28
It addressed the state’s contribution to the proliferation of injustice since the military ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi on 3 July 2013.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 09:23
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel told The Jerusalem Post that the famous 1999 ruling was a positive turning point, but that the state and the Shin Bet have interpreted that ruling in a way that has led to “less brutality, but not less torture.”
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 08:21
When Jacob Atem was just a young boy, his parents were killed during the long war for independence from Sudan, and he found himself among the legions of orphaned children known as the Lost Boys wandering hundreds of miles across this part of Africa.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 07:29
A group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has chided President Goodluck Jonathan for refusing to tackle what it described as the perennial non-performance of the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, since he assumed power.