Human Rights
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 06:32
Military courts have tried at least 7,420 Egyptian civilians since October 2014, when President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi decreed a major new law that expanded military court jurisdiction.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 06:19
The findings of a Burundian commission of inquiry into allegations of extrajudicial executions by members of the security forces on December 11, 2015, in the capital, Bujumbura, are misleading and biased. This is one of several official inquiries that have failed to properly investigate security force abuses or hold those responsible to account.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 07:06
Amnesty International is calling for an independent investigation into mass graves allegedly containing the bodies of hundreds of Shiites killed in clashes with the Nigerian military.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 05:48
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Tuesday that most of the country's prisons are ill-equipped, overcrowded and dangerous. The most shocking part of the report was the overcrowding found at 71 of the 130 penitentiaries. Commission President Luis Raul Gonzalez said as many as 30 inmates were found living in cells designed for four people.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 05:46
The ideal candidate to help with the investigation, as American officials like Senator Patrick Leahy have argued, is the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (I.A.C.H.R.), whose help the Hernández government has largely avoided. The organization has a troubled history with the Honduran government: it repeatedly warned Honduras to take action to protect Cáceres.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 06:37
The European Union is moving ahead on a key trade agreement with Turkmenistan even though the government has failed to meet related human rights benchmarks, Human Rights Watch said today
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 06:13
Protests sparked by the arrest of Konso leader Kala Gezahegn underlined growing tensions between Ethiopia’s central government and many ethnic populations
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 06:43
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have expelled a prominent American researcher weeks after he published a report linking soldiers to the massacres of civilians, the government and the researcher’s organisation said on Saturday.
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 05:25
The 1989 killings at the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador was one of the most notorious crimes committed during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, which left 75,000 civilians dead and only formally ended in 1992.
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 07:30
Since the country’s left-wing leader was ousted in 2009, LGBT people have faced a dramatic increase in the risk of torture, prison and murder.