UK ACCUSED OF DOING CHINA'S BIDDING AFTER POLICE RAID HOME OF TIANANMEN SQUARE SURVIVOR OVER PEACEFUL PROTEST

Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE›

TERROR AT 3,500 FEET AS GLASS WALKWAY IN CHINA CRACKS

The 1 300-foot-long glass-bottom walkway is built along Yuntai Mountain Scenic Park in Henan Province China... READ MORE›

CHINA ANNOUNCES CUTS OF 300000 TROOPS AT MILITARY PARADE SHOWING ITS MIGHT

The cut would shrink military forces to two million personnel the China News Service a state-run agency said... READ MORE›

4 CARTOONS THAT SUM UP THE ABSURDITY OF SAUDI ARABIA LEADING A UN HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL

Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE›

'LADY SOS': THE WOMAN SAVING SYRIAN REFUGEES AT SEA

Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE›

CHINA BARS ANASTASIA LIN MISS WORLD CANADA AND RIGHTS ADVOCATE

Ike Lalji, chief executive of Miss World Canada, has been more outspoken, saying he is disappointed by China's intransigence... READ MORE›

DRAWINGS OF POLICE TORTURING A SUSPECT CAPTIVATE CHINA

Mr. Liu said in the telephone interview that he was not afraid of possible retaliation from the police over the drawings... READ MORE›

LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR

Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›

GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVEAL ITS ROLE IN GETTING SAUDI ARABIA A UN HUMAN RIGHTS ROLE

Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE›

MISS WORLD CONTESTANT WHO CHALLENGED CHINA IS ALLOWED TO SPEAK ONCE MORE

Anastasia Lin, the Miss World contestant whose advocacy for victims of human right abuses in China has infuriated Beijing, appears to have regained her voice... READ MORE›

ROCKY ECONOMYTESTS FRIENDSHIP OFPUTIN AND XI

In Beijing in November, Mr. Putin demonstrated for Mr. Xi the finer points of a Russian cellphone... READ MORE›

PALU JOURNAL A CITY TURNS TO FACE INDONESIAS MURDEROUS PAST

Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE›

THIS RANT COMPARING IDS AND CHINA WAS TOO MUCH FOR EVEN THE QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE

I just wonder how the Conservative government can scrutinise China for their human rights violations when they are being investigated themselves he said... READ MORE›

PUTIN SIGNS LAW ALLOWING RUSSIA TO OVERTURN RULINGS OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS COURTS

MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts... READ MORE›

WHY IS IT LEFT TO US NGOS TO EXPOSE AUSTRALIAN MINING'S WRONGDOING IN AFRICA?

The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›

FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS BACKED BY THE U.S. WHOM YOU NEVER HEARD OF

More than 30 were killed, mostly at the hands of Bahraini security forces, and hundreds more were wounded, according to human rights groups... READ MORE›

SAUDI ARABIA CARRYING OUT 'UNPRECEDENTED WAVE' OF EXECUTIONS

There's a lot of speculation, says Adam Coogle, who monitors Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty, for Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›

U.S. BLOCKS SOME ANTI-DRUG FUNDS FOR MEXICO OVER HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS

State Department has decided that Mexico failed to reach some human rights goals triggering a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid... READ MORE›

NOT BEING TORTURED ISN'T THE ONLY HUMAN RIGHT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED

A day does not go by without news reports of grave human rights abuses in countries across all regions of the world... READ MORE›

SENIOR UN OFFICIAL CASTIGATES WORLD BANK OVER ITS APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS

For decades, the World Bank has argued that human rights and development are mutually reinforcing... READ MORE›

AI WEIWEI ACCUSES CAMERON OF SACRIFICING BRITAIN'S VALUES BY PURSUING CHINA'S MONEY

Ai Weiwei accuses David Cameron of sacrificing UK's human rights record for Chinese cash... READ MORE›

STATE DINNER FOR XI JINPING HAS HIGH-TECH FLAVOR

Mr. Zuckerberg, Mr. Cook and Mr. Nadella were seated at the head table with Mr. Obama and President Xi Jinping of China... READ MORE›

CHINA'S MIGRANT WORKERS HEAD HOME AS BEIJING FACES AN ECONOMIC STORM

Even if Beijing's claim that GDP was growing at about 7 percent were true, all the other indicators paint a very worrying picture of the economy ... READ MORE›

ANASTASIA LIN: A FALUN GONG PRACTITIONER SEEKING THE MISS WORLD CROWN IN CHINA

Tens of millions in China practice Falun Gong which combines moral philosophy meditation and qigong exercises and emerged out of ideas prevalent in alternative Chinese medicine... READ MORE›

12 FIREFIGHTERS AMONG 50 DEAD IN CHINESE PORT CITY EXPLOSIONS

BEIJING -- The death toll in twin warehouse blasts in China rose to at least 50 people Thursday, including 12 firefighters, state media reported... READ MORE›

RUSSELL BRAND DESCRIBES ONE-MINUTE'S SILENCE FOR TUNISIA VICTIMS AS 'ABSOLUTE BULL****'

Russell Brand describes one-minute's silence for Tunisia victims as 'absolute bull '... READ MORE›

Related Stories Torture is still rife in Mexico and is routinely used to extract confessions, according to a new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International... READ MORE›

CHINA ANNOUNCES CUTS TO TROOPS DURING MASSIVE MILITARY PARADE

Although China often criticizes Japan's incorrect view of history, China's leaders take liberties in telling their country's story... READ MORE›

WHAT THE WORLD IS SAYING ABOUT THE CIA TORTURE REPORT

But the Obama administration, having formally banned torture, hasn't lifted a finger to punish those guilty for these egregious human rights abuses... READ MORE›

WOMEN IN INDONESIA SUBJECTED TO PAINFUL 'VIRGINITY TESTS' TO JOIN POLICE FORCE

The Government in Indonesia is subjecting female recruits for its national police to painful and traumatic virginity tests, a human rights watchdog has found... READ MORE›