Zimbabwe women, to receive rights award from Obama, speak out on their country's rights record After the beatings by President Robert Mugabe's policemen, ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese dissident who tried to help victims of last year's Sichuan earthquake was jailed for three years on Monday ...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed almost 8,900 lives in two decades, the vast majority of them Palestinians, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said in a statement published on Sunday. Israeli forces killed 7,398 Palestinians, including 1,537 minors, both in Israel and ...
Terror trials: Civilian courts more independent; military tribunals easier on evidence The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no ...
UN committee targets Iran's human rights violations and crackdown on election opponents A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained. Citing arbitrary ...
A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for "serious, ongoing and recurring" human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections. Members of the United Nations human rights committee adopted the damning -- but non-binding -- resolution by ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged. Tehran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee sharply criticized the Canadian-drafted ...
UN war crimes court appoints British lawyer as standby counsel for Radovan Karadzic The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has appointed a British lawyer to represent Radovan Karadzic if the former Bosnian Serb leader continues to boycott his trial when it resumes in ...
Key UN committee approves resolution criticizing widespread human rights violations in NKorea A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put ...
Robert F. Kennedy and guest Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights annual dinner held at Chelsea Piers, Pier 60 New York City, USA - 18.11.09 Copyright 2009 WENN
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. The 192-nation General Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on ...
NJ dad trying to get son back from Brazil to testify before congressional human rights panel A New Jersey man who's been battling in Brazilian courts to get custody of his 9-year-old son is scheduled to testify before a congressional human rights ...
