Human Rights
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 07:04
El Salvador's human rights ombudsman has presented findings on abuses reportedly committed by state security forces, noting an increase in police misconduct while at the same time appearing to downplay their actions.
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 06:57
The country now ranks among the most deadly nonwar zones for reporters, yet these abuses are difficult to prove.
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 06:44
On December 10, the International Human Rights Day, the Public Defender as usual published a brief report about the situation in Georgia in terms of human rights.
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 06:37
A new United Nations report says that the government of Azerbaijan has failed to prosecute a single torture case despite hundreds of allegations of torture in its detention facilities in the past few years, Human Rights Watch said today.
Friday, December 11, 2015 - 06:27
To mark Human Rights Day on December 10 IWPR asked Armenian human rights defenders whether the shift towards Moscow had made any difference. The consensus view was that it had, and that since accession to the Eurasian bloc in January, there had been a series of grave human rights violations regarding freedom of assembly and expression, in particular.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 12:19
Challenging a longtime U.S. military critique of security assistance, some defense experts are saying suspending U.S. military aid to foreign security forces because of their poor human rights record has often caused an improvement in the force’s behavior.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 07:02
A London-based correspondent of Kazakhstan's leading state television channel dropped a bombshell last week, saying she was quitting her job because she was "tired of lying."
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:56
There has been a major reduction in hostilities in eastern Ukraine since the “ceasefire within a ceasefire” deal signed on August 26, but humanitarian and human rights concerns persist, according to a report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published on Wednesday.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:48
Prominent Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus has been freed from prison on grounds of her deteriorating health, although she and her fellow activist husband both face treason charges in a separate case.
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 06:35
The United States on Wednesday called for greater transparency into alleged sexual assaults by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, demanding to know the nationalities of the accused.