2 days ago
The HRW said its researchers found physical evidence that Syrians were tortured, including with a device which former detainees said was used to stretch or bend victims' arms and legs.
2 days ago
Human Rights Watch says it strives to protect human rights worldwide by focusing attention where those rights are violated and giving voice to the oppressed.
3 days ago
Amnesty International said Wednesday the arrests were "further evidence of the authorities' determination to clamp down on free speech" before the May 26 vote.
4 days ago
In their filing, lawyers for Elmadag pointed to a 2010 United Nations Human Rights Council report that found Israeli actions violated elements of the Geneva Conventions.
4 days ago
After Amnesty released its report, Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamonthe told The Associated Press that the government of President Michel Martelly was in fact trying to stop the evictions.
5 days ago
"In China, the police often act as if by engaging in sex work, women had forfeited their rights," Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement accompanying the report.
9 days ago
They have been given human rights prizes and received with open arms by the exile community and Cuban-American politicians in Miami.
9 days ago
According to Amnesty International, Eritrea has since become "one of the most repressive, secretive and inaccessible countries in the world.
11 days ago
Human Rights Watch said it was seriously concerned about a "lack of accountability for crimes committed against Muslim communities.
15 days ago
It did not talk to soldiers who were at the scene because it claims it was prevented from doing so by their superior officers, according to Human Rights Watch.
16 days ago
Amnesty quotes news presenter Yara Saleh as saying cameraman Hatem Abu Yehyeh was killed by their captors almost immediately and that she was threatened with rape.
18 days ago
Human Rights Watch said its report, being released Wednesday, is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact that registry laws have on juvenile sex offenders.
19 days ago
Amnesty International says the Sri Lankan government is intensifying a crackdown on its critics though harassment, imprisonment and violent attacks.
66 days ago
Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said he has received dozens of such videos and is growing increasingly concerned about the behavior of opposition fighters.
66 days ago
Mexico's top human rights body says it is bringing a criminal complaint against former and current high-ranking law enforcement officials in the case of a Frenchwoman freed after seven years...
67 days ago
The relatives made the request in a letter addressed to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay that was delivered Wednesday to the U.N. office in Colombo.
67 days ago
The governmental Human Rights Commission in the western state of Jalisco says it is also investigating hospital and school officials for possible negligence in the death of the boy, whose name...
68 days ago
Tobias Wolff, a University of Pennsylvania law professor defending the state Human Rights Commission ruling, says the studio advertised as a public business and therefore must abide by...
71 days ago
Amnesty is pushing for member states next week at the U.N. Human Rights Council to support an independent commission of inquiry into systematic abuses and crimes against humanity in North Korea.
72 days ago
Human Rights Watch said that in South Sudan there is a "near total lack of protection" for victims who try to resist marriage or to leave abusive marriages.
81 days ago
"There is a very thin line between these self-defense organizations and paramilitary groups," Raul Plascencia, the head of the country's Human Rights Commission, said earlier this month.
82 days ago
Amnesty International has accused Ivory Coast's government of subjecting supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo to torture, ill-treatment and biased legal proceedings.
82 days ago
The report comes as the United Nations Human Rights Council is set to discuss Sri Lanka's alleged wartime abuses at its annual meeting in Geneva this week.
82 days ago
A Human Rights Watch researcher who visited Aleppo last week to inspect the targeted sites, said up to 20 buildings were destroyed in each area hit by a missile.
84 days ago
The United States has said it will introduce a new resolution on Sri Lanka - urging a full accounting of what happened at the end of the war - when the U.N. Human Rights Council meets next week.
