The appeal court in Casablanca on Tuesday upheld a three-year jail term against a human rights activist, Chahib Khayari, who had charged that ...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial on Tuesday when two Congolese warlords face charges ...
Jordanian police say 2nd citizen dies of police beating in the past week A Jordanian citizen died after being beaten by police, the second time this week, a police spokesman said Sunday, casting a rare spotlight on the nation's U.S.-trained security forces, ...
Iraq's Kurdish regional government said on Thursday it is willing to probe allegations that its forces had abused ethnic minorities, but rejected claims by Human Rights Watch of widespread abuse. The New York-based rights group on Tuesday said the autonomous region had ...
Chinese routinely kidnapped on their way to complain to central government, rights group says Kidnapping villagers who have traveled to Beijing to lodge complaints with China's central government and keeping them in unofficial jails to silence them has evolved into a lucrative ...
Chinese state agents regularly abduct citizens and detain them for days or months in secret, illegal "black jails", subjecting them to physical and psychological abuses, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The US-based rights group in a new report called on China to ...
Human Rights Watch warns of rights catastrophe for minorities in north Iraq, criticizes Kurds The ongoing dispute between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities in the country's north threatens to create a "human rights catastrophe" for minority communities in ...
Minorities, including Christians, in northern Iraq are the collateral victims of a conflict between Arabs and Kurds over who controls the country's disputed provinces, Human Rights Watch warned Tuesday. In a report titled "On vulnerable ground: violence against minority communities in Nineveh ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday. Baghdad's Arab-led government and ethnic Kurds ...
Rights group says it has documented rape of detainees in Iran's postelection turmoil An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran's postelection turmoil, including one that was supported by an ...
Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda's HIV/AIDS bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status. The New York-based group said the bill "promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to ...
UN military support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) has increasingly come under fire because of atrocities against civilians blamed on regular troops. For months, international and Congolese non-governmental organisations have called for the suspension of the Kimia ...
