But Western governments, including the United States, support Mauritania as a partner against terror groups operating in the Sahara... READ MORE›
He called the referendum after the Senate rejected his proposals to change the constitution... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE›
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›
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
The recent election in Ethiopia was anything but a democratic one, said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
The Tunisia director of Human Rights Watch, Amna Guellali, said the prize was seen in the country as a reward for sticking with democratic principles... READ MORE›
As many as 2,000 migrants leave Agadez weekly, the last big stop before reaching Libya, 620 miles away across the scorching sand... READ MORE›
Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE›
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›
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›
The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
State Department has decided that Mexico failed to reach some human rights goals triggering a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid... READ MORE›
A day does not go by without news reports of grave human rights abuses in countries across all regions of the world... READ MORE›
For decades, the World Bank has argued that human rights and development are mutually reinforcing... READ MORE›
Ai Weiwei accuses David Cameron of sacrificing UK's human rights record for Chinese cash... READ MORE›
At a half-dozen polling stations, only a trickle of people were seen voting, pressing an ink-stained thumb on a ballot... READ MORE›
Trial of HissA?ne HabrA C is first time courts of one African country have prosecuted former ruler of another for alleged human rights crimes... READ MORE›
But 24 years later Eritrea has become known as Africa's North Korea and its citizens are fleeing in their thousands to escape a repressive government... READ MORE›
Russell Brand describes one-minute's silence for Tunisia victims as 'absolute bull '... READ MORE›
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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›
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›
Amnesty International has also promised demonstrations in London over China's human rights record... READ MORE›
"Too often, governments try to avoid their legal obligations to refugees and victims of human trafficking by characterising them all as 'migrants', labelling victims of abuse as 'illegal'," it says... READ MORE›
Activists called the complaint one of a first wave of legal challenges seeking redress for human right violations from climate change... READ MORE›
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