Human Rights
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 00:00
En el caso de las atrocidades perpetradas por los agentes del Estado, la reaccion del cuerpo social y del aparato de justicia ha estado calificada por la negacion. Se niegan literalmente los hechos.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 00:00
At the present time, both the Military Justice Reform amendment and its implementing legislation remain under review by the Colombian Constitutional Court, and the Department will monitor the results.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 09:08
But diplomats attending the council said an immediate aim was to increase pressure on Syria to allow the access it has so far denied to members of the two-year old Commission of Inquiry monitoring human rights violations.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:57
A total of 113 countries on Wednesday in New York endorsed a historic new document entitled: "Declaration of Commitment to end Sexual Violence in Conflict."
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:56
A number of illegally-detained prisoners, including several women, have been found in a detention facility on the outskirts of Tripoli after it was stormed by security forces.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:08
An international war crimes court in The Hague has upheld the 50-year prison term handed down to the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, for aiding rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 08:06
Public reaction to the Special Court for Sierra Leone Appeals Chamber decision unanimously upholding the conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and affirming the 50- year sentence imposed by the court’s Trial Chamber has been mixed in Monrovia.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 07:46
An opposition Tajik presidential candidate, Oinihol Bobonazarova, has accused the police of interfering in her campaign.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 07:40
The brutal practice of ‘disappearing’ government critics is a terrible blight on Uzbekistan's already abysmal human rights record, said Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 06:22
Petition Calling on President Barack Obama, Secretary State of John Kerry, and Members of Congress, to Provide Sudanese President Omar al Bashir with a Visa to Travel to the United States, and to Arrest Him Upon His Arrival and Deliver Him to the International Criminal Court