Human Rights
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 06:48
When President Obama visits Saudi Arabia this week for a meeting with representatives from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, he should avoid doing what he did at Camp David last May, the last time he met with them: promise more arms sales.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 06:16
Congo Republic's government has intentionally bombed residential areas in the country's south, reportedly killing at least 30 people, Amnesty International said on Monday.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 06:12
Burundi’s security services are torturing and illegally detaining increasing numbers of people, the United Nations said on Monday, reinforcing international alarm over the government’s ferocious crackdown on political opponents.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 05:46
Witness testimony given to Mexico's human rights agency has implicated federal police in the 2014 disappearance of 43 student protestors from Iguala, opening a new line of inquiry in a landmark case that has yielded few clear answers.
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 06:34
An increasing number of Afghan civilians are killed and injured at the hands of government forces fighting extremist groups, according to the UN.
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 06:29
The United States put Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and several others nations on notice for what the State Department said was increasing problems with religious freedoms.
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 07:30
It’s not a good week for Central Asian PR. Not only did Freedom House release their Nations in Transit report–in which the Central Asian countries scrape the bottom of the proverbial democracy barrel–but the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released its 2015 country reports reviewing the human rights practices of nearly every country in the world. Central Asia, again, doesn’t come off well.
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 06:55
An army captain and a soldier were arrested Thursday as a video emerged showing a woman being tortured by troops and an apparent police officer, Mexico's defense ministry informed.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 06:47
The annual U.S. report on human rights says nearly half of Palestinians killed by Israel were not carrying out attacks, and many times did not pose a threat to life.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 06:36
A new U.S. State Department report says Afghanistan's most pressing human rights problems stem from "widespread violence," including indiscriminate attacks on civilians by armed insurgent groups and "torture and abuse of detainees by government forces."