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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›
OBAMA NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO CUBA
Obama picked Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who already is the chief diplomat in Havana, a job he's held since 2014... 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›
A SECRETIVE PATH TO RAISING US FLAG
When the Cubans suggested going out for dinner after their talks, the White House aides demurred, fearful of being spotted... READ MORE›
FOR OBAMA PERSONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL INTERSECT IN KENYA
Two advocacy groups, Haki Africa and Muslims for Human Rights, or Muhuri, were placed on a list of entities suspected of ties to the Shabab... 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›
U.S., CUBA RESTORING DIPLOMATIC TIES AFTER 54 YEARS
President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro the deal fulfills a pledge the former Cold War enemies made six months ago... READ MORE›
CUBAN FLAG FLIES AT EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
The move signaled the latest and most visible step toward normal ties between the United States and Cuba... READ MORE›
OBAMA CALLS ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED
The recent election in Ethiopia was anything but a democratic one, said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
FIDEL CASTRO SAYS OBAMA'S 'SYRUPY WORDS' WERE ENOUGH TO CAUSE A HEART ATTACK
Obama addresses the Cuban nation 'It is time now for us to leave the past behind' Obama did not meet with Fidel Castro during the visit... 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›
OBAMA TALKS ABOUT RACISM, DROPS THE 'N WORD'
President Obama says the legacy of slavery and racism still hangs over the nation speaking in an interview in which he drops the n word... READ MORE›
OP-ED A REPUBLICAN CASE FOR OBAMAS CUBA POLICY
Washington I WAS born in Havana in November 1953 about six years before Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba... 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›
VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES
Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE›
CHINESE LEADER VOWS TO REAFFIRM WOMENS RIGHTS
President Obama did not attend the conference, though Ms. Power sat at the American table during Mr. Xi's remarks... 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›
CUBAN DISSIDENTS ARRESTED BEFORE FREE-SPEECH DEMONSTRATION IN HAVANA
Photograph Reuters Cuban police have detained at least three leading dissidents ahead of a planned free-speech demonstration in the Plaza de la Revoluci n... READ MORE›
CUBA TO OBAMA: END EMBARGO AND CLOSE GITMO
Obama in his speech Monday to the United Nations General Assembly also called on Congress to lift the decades-long embargo on the former Cold War rival... READ MORE›
OBAMA BEGINS HISTORIC VISIT TO CUBA
On Sunday morning, Cubans crowded around their televisions to watch a hilarious phone conversation Obama taped Friday with the island's best-known comedian... 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›
SENATE LEADER SAYS CONGRESS WILL BLOCK SOME OBAMA MOVES ON CUBA
McConnell has been a consistent critic of Obama on a range of foreign policy fronts, including Cuba and U.S... READ MORE›