Human Rights
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 00:00
Someone from the U.S. Border Patrol made a last-minute call for non-lethal weapons in the moments before an agent shot through the border fence into Mexico in 2011, leaving 17-year-old Ramses Barron Torres dead.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 00:00
Significant barriers remain, not least the challenge of finding a way past the political conditions that the common position requires. This will be complicated by pressure from Cuban dissidents and other groups calling for far-reaching political reforms
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 10:35
Up to 6 000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior UN official said on Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiralling crisis.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:55
A satellite imagery report of North Kordofan shows a large-scale build-up of the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) along the border with South Kordofan. 'Clashes between the SAF and rebels in Abu Zabad as seen on November 17 might be repeated,' the report says.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:53
President Ilham Aliyev said development of the media would continue to be a priority for the Azerbaijani government, addinf that there is no political discrimination against the media in Azerbaijan.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:46
Kuramshin had been appealing a 12-year prison sentence that he began serving last December after being found guilty of extortion.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:37
According to the killed young man’s mother, her son was beaten to death by policemen, and then law enforcement agencies put esprit de corps higher than evidence.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:35
The UN Committee Against Torture on Firday issued a sharply critical report charging the Central Asian country with widespread human rights abuses.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:34
“The police appear to have grossly stepped outside the law in this case,” said Mihra Rittmann, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Torture is never justified, no matter the crime.”
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:29
The trial opened Monday of two Tunisian rappers and a journalist accused of insulting public officials after another musician was convicted in June, with the verdict expected later in the day.