Human Rights
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:36
U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power landed Thursday in this war-scorched nation and said the United States would provide a military liaison presence to assist African Union forces amid deepening worries about an escalating humanitarian crisis.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:33
Samantha Power, U.S. envoy to the United Nations, was in Central African Republic, she said, to show how important the situation there is to the United States.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:18
The American ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, landed in this besieged capital early on Thursday with what she called a blunt and simple message: The United States is watching.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 06:59
Amnesty International says that an Al-Qaeda–linked rebel group operating in Syria uses torture, flogging, and summary killings in secret prisons.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 06:55
Syrian activists and other citizens have vanished into secret detention as part of a "widespread campaign of terror against the civilian population" by the Damascus government, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
Eles afirmaram que o disparo partiu de policiais militares da Unidade de Policia Pacificadora do Arara/Mandela. No inicio da madrugada desta quinta-feira, um novo conflito foi registrado, com tiros e fogos.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
En total, se lograron siete reencuentros entre madres e hijos, cuatro contactos telefonicos con familiares y el "cierre de una herida" con la lamentable ubicacion de la tumba de una hondurena desaparecida hace 17 anos
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
Um soldado da UPP (Unidade de Policia Pacificadora) do Complexo de Manguinhos, conjunto de favelas situadas na zona norte do Rio, e investigado sob suspeita de matar o aposentado Jose Joaquim Santana, 81, no inicio da madrugada desta quinta-feira (19),
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
. An army colonel recently claimed that Annie Bird, co-director of the US-based nongovernmental organization Rights Action, was working to destabilize the Bajo Aguan region, where land disputes have led to violence.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:15
The authorities in Saudi Arabia are trying to silence social and political rights activists and quash their calls for change, Human Rights Watch says.