Human Rights
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:40
As Azerbaijan’s government prepares to host the first European Games in Baku starting June 12, it is hoping once again to paper over its paranoid authoritarian rule with a lavish display of wealth and international prestige.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:28
Ghana's mining industry has been benefiting from child labour in unlicensed mines, Human Rights Watch has said, after conducting field observations in the Western, Central and Ashanti Regions.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:21
UN peacekeepers regularly barter goods for sex with people in the countries the world body is meant to be helping, a draft UN report says.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:39
The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday he was alarmed by accounts from refugees fleeing Burundi about violence and threats by members of the ruling party's youth wing.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:34
Eritrea's government has dismissed as a "vile slander" a UN report accusing it of human rights violations on a scale "seldom witnessed elsewhere".
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:19
When a British oil company began prospecting for oil in Africa’s oldest national park, drawing worldwide concern, the company was adamant in denying any wrongdoing.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 05:55
A British human rights activist says Azerbaijani authorities on June 9 prevented her from entering the country and marooned her at the airport, adding to evidence that Baku is systematically barring critics from appearing at the upcoming European Games.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 07:04
Wave of Vigilante Killings Responds to Police Inaction
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 07:01
Democratic Republic of Congo authorities should promptly and properly exhume a mass grave that may contain the bodies of people forcibly disappeared or executed by Congolese security forces.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 06:49
Peruvian authorities have reopened the forced sterilizations case involving over 300,000 mostly indigenous women, and will investigate further the testimony of former President Alberto Fujimori and three of his Health Ministers.