Human Rights
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 07:48
Social media has been inaccessible in Burundi as protests against the re-election bid of the incumbent President, Pierre Nkurunziza, entered the fourth day.
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 07:36
Amid an uproar over a leaked United Nations inquiry into allegations of child sexual abuse by French troops posted in the Central African Republic, France confirmed on Wednesday that it was looking into whether some of its soldiers had abused children in its former colony, but said nothing about whether or when they might face prosecution.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 07:01
The United Nations on Tuesday deplored “dire conditions” at migrant detention centers in Libya and said it was helping some of the 1,242 people rescued from sea over the past 10 days.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:58
69 suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters were each sentenced to 25 years in prison in Egypt on Wednesday for attacking and burning a church in a village near Cairo in 2013, judicial sources said. However, "there is no proof against the defendants... even the church's priest said he didn't see any of the defendants after the incident," Hany El-Sayed, a defense lawyer for some of the defendants, told Reuters.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:39
Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented its report before the delegates of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) last week in Banjul. The document raises concerns over the general human rights situation in Uganda, Nigeria and South Sudan.
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 07:05
The trial of former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, deposed by the army and sentenced to 20 years in jail, was "badly flawed" and appears to have been politically motivated, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 09:56
Subcommittee on Africa Global Health Global Human Rights and International Organizations of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is holding a hearing on The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
Witnesses
Mr. William Browder
Chief Executive Officer
Hermitage Capital Management
Ms. Rebiya Kadeer
President
World Uyghur Congress
Mr. Kenneth R. Weinstein
President and Chief Executive Officer
Hudson Institute
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 07:13
Word emerged this week that Mexican government forces were likely behind a mass killing of civilians in the state of Michoacán, the third extrajudicial massacre by state forces known in Mexico in less than a year.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 11:15
In Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, historically unequal power relations between men and women have been further exacerbated by a hyper-masculine security approach that relies on the armed forces and militarized policing to combat organized crime and drug trafficking.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 07:27
A court in Azerbaijan on April 22, 2015, sentenced Intigam Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s leading human rights lawyer, to seven years and six months in prison on bogus charges, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately release Aliyev, 52, and vacate his politically motivated conviction.