Human Rights
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 00:00
Workers of Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras have gone on a nationwide strike protesting next week's scheduled auction of a huge offshore oil field, arguing foreign companies shouldn't be involved.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 13:18
Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior is planning to import 1.6 million tear gas canisters and 90,000 tear gas grenades, according to a leaked document, published today by research and advocacy group Bahrain Watch.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 13:11
On 16 Oct 2013, the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan considered a supervisory appeal of the lawyer Valeryan Vakhitov, who is representing the interests of the imprisoned well-known human rights advocate Azimjan Askarov.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 13:06
Last week, the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) unanimously passed a bill establishing a body to monitor human rights violations in Tunisian detention centers.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 12:41
The authorities are holding hundreds of Syrian refugees in deplorable conditions, among them children as young as one, the rights group says.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 10:01
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Tuesday accused the International Criminal Court of dispensing "selective" justice, in the latest blast of criticism from Africa against the court.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 09:59
Le président rwandais, Paul Kagamé, s'en est une nouvelle fois pris à la Cour pénale internationale (CPI). Il a estimé, mardi, qu'elle représentait une justice "sélective" aux mains des puissants de "ce monde".
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 00:00
In country after country, Latin America is experiencing a wave of exhumations.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 00:00
Este juicio se fundamento en las denuncias publicas que formulo Balda, en las que hablaba de la supuesta existencia de una oficina de espionaje del Gobierno para interceptar llamadas telefonicas de jueces, politicos y periodistas.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:57
It calls upon the international community, in general, to support these appeals and the GCC, in particular, to withdraw its support for immunity measures in Yemen.