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Demanding justice on a global scale HQ Location: United States After the watershed events of 2011, human rights did not quite enjoy the same global exposure in the year just gone. If anything, however, this ...
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has presented an oral report on human rights abuses in Belarus, which it admits was based on second-hand information gathered in Geneva due to an ...
Guantánamo Bay and the future of legal “black holes”. When one nation (or clan or tribe or ethnic group) covets the land of another, the result, throughout history, has usually been aggression. It is ...
A celebration to mark the successful conclusion of the first cycle of a universal review of the human rights records of all 193 members of the United Nations was held at the European headquarters of ...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression has urged Governments to guarantee the free flow of information on the Internet, and to ensure that the Internet is made widely available, accessible and affordable ...
The government of Malawi delined to submit its human rights report to the UN Human Rights Committee (October 25) and have called on civil society organizations to submit their own reports about the country. "Among ...
Renowned Syrian dissident lawyer and judge, 80-year old Haitham Maleh, believes the continuing brutality of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, which has led to a death toll of over 5,000, is a sign that ...
It has been one year since the last Presidential election, with its massive fraud, vote-rigging and harsh crackdown against opposition political and civil figures, including, of course, all the inconvenient Presidential candidates. Some of them ...
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times, Seyla Benhabib, Polity Books, 21,60 € Never has the human rights discourse been so ubiquitous and so contested at the same time. Never has the international human ...
In a paper published today in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) sets out its concerns about measures taken by the transitional authorities in Egypt, in particular the Supreme Council of Armed Forces ...
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera of Uganda has been given the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for her courage as a gay activist defending minority rights. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda and can be ...
Following the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 28 November, the government has banned the use of SMS messaging and access to social media networks via mobile telephones. "The service works for ...
Year after year, the U.S. State Department issues an annual report that criticizes the Cuban government for detaining some of its citizens in prison indefinitely, without charging them with crimes or bringing them to ...
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, has responded to criticism from a group of women’s rights organizations in an open letter published by the New York Review of Books online. The debate ...
Last Thursday (28 June), I was on the schedule to deliver testimony at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. I was invited to be part of UN Watch's campaign to stop Hugo ...
In the run up to the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang addressed the issue of Sino-Tibetan relations at the 5th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on ...
Tell me a little bit about your project: OVDinfo.org. What do you hope to achieve? And what role does the Internet play? Our project came into existence after the first major protest against mass ...
At the close of its 18th session (September 29), the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution creating a Special Rapporteur to help states deal with gross violations of human rights in transitional ...
Authoritarian governments all over the world are clamping down on internet and limiting freedom of expression. "Today we face a series of challenges at the intersection of human rights, connected technologies, business, and government. It ...
Interview with Navi Pillay, High Commissioner, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, Geneva: Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How ...
While US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met privately with members of the Syrian National Council at a hotel in Geneva (December 6), journalists were diverted to the nearby UN headquarters to await what was ...
Over two thousand Tamils gathered in front of the United Nations in Geneva (March 5, 2012) to appeal to the Human Rights Council to support a genuine process of reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The protesters ...
Opinion piece by Saïd Benarbia, Middle East & North Africa Senior Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Mazen Darwish is one of the most prominent human rights lawyers and defenders in Syria ...
The International Commission of Jurists is urging the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer and defender who serves as President of the Center for Media and ...
The ICJ has launched its new website and visual identity. In an effort to make the organisation more visible to a wider audience and ensure that its wealth of legal resources and advocacy work are ...
Check out if Human Rights Watch is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Advocating forcefully to defend human rights. Over 280 staff members globally. In a year when regimes notorious for their repression and ...
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