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The company tells a Senate subcommittee its products did not facilitate 'censorship or monitoring' of banned Chinese spiritual movement. A Cisco Systems Inc. executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China's goal to "combat" a religious group did not...
UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (UPI) -- A U.N. investigator of racism and discrimination has begun a three-week visit to examine human rights abuses in the United States, a statement says. Special rapporteur Doudou Diene of Senegal plans to meet with lawmakers and analysts across the United States and...
A father giving his son something to drink as they sit on board a ferry. More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, only 500,000 of the estimated 2.4 million people affected have received some form of international assistance thus far, according to the UN. 1.4 million - require...
Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Felly Kimenyi Kigali The Global Pan-African Movement (PAM) has added its voice in condemning recent indictments by two foreign judges against senior Rwandan military officers. The indictments by judges from Spain and France respectively, have attracted the ire of...
Zimbabwe's opposition leader should return home to lead his campaign for president, the U.S. ambassador to the southern African country said Tuesday. Ambassador James McGee, speaking to The Associated Press in South Africa, said he understood the opposition's security concerns — it claims its...
A book that examines several notorious genocides, including the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the massacre of Armenians has been pulled from the cirriculum of a Toronto school after concerns raised by the Turkish community there. A book about genocide has been pulled from the recommended...
Hundreds of thousands of people were massacred during the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda. Now, in the crucible of the ensuing war in neighbouring Congo, the fugitive killers are training their children to carry on the Hutu mission of extermination, and awaiting their opportunity to return to the...
A collection of tech companies are trooping to Congress today to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law. Fairly or not, politicians have held the tech industry's feet to the fire over sundry issues touching on human rights in the age of the Internet. But in...
JURIST] New Zealand's Human Rights Commission [official website] announced [press release] Monday that the Human Rights Review Tribunal [NZ Ministry of Justice materials] has found the nation's accident compensation system to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act [text], a 1990...
Human Rights Watch considers the Dutch Naturalization Procedures discriminatory against Moroccans and Turks. The Netherlands is the first country which requires certain immigrants to pass an exam in their country of origin before they can come to the country. This exam tests people's knowledge of...
