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This post will remain at the top of the page through Friday, events allowing. To read newer posts, scroll down. In "New Castro, Same Cuba," Human Rights Watch's recently released report on the human rights situation in Cuba...
AMMAN - Interior Minister Nayef Qadi and district governors on Saturday said that the practice of "administrative detention" is not a threat to human rights. At an event launching an Interior Ministry programme of workshops for...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Indeed, on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder testified, "The 9/11 attacks were both an act of war and a violation of our federal criminal law,...
There is no firm national count of the number of untested rape kits. But last March, Human Rights Watch found more than 12,500 untested rape kits in the Los Angeles area alone. The Houston Police Department recently found at...
AFP - A leading rights group Saturday called on the Thai government to allow 158 Lao Hmong refugees, who have been detained for three years pending deportation, to be resettled in four western countries.
Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - Uzbek authorities should ensure that an appeal hearing that began today for a human rights advocate is fair and independent, Human Rights Watch said. The activist, Farkhad Mukhtarov, was ...
The French Immigration Minister's proposals to address the needs of unaccompanied migrant children held at transit zones, especially airports, falls short of bringing France into compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights...
The final piece in the Burmese military regimes, ‘Road Map to Democracy’, is the national elections planned for 2010. As part of their ‘Road Map’, in May 2008, the regime held a national referendum to vote on a draft...
Critics of the EU’s mild policy on Uzbekistan say it’s the Karimov regime that’s running the show, not the West. But the move also must have dismayed critics of the EU’s relationship with Uzbekistan, who had hoped for something...
HOW ironic that the report by former South African judge Richard Goldstone and others, accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza, was presented to the UN at the same session that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again denied the...
