Tehrān :: Iran
| about 14 hours ago
We think that regional and international developments and the complicated situation faced by Israel itself will not allow that country to launch military strikes against another country," Foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told the weekly press...
Tags: Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Qashqavi, Iraqi Parliament, Qashqavi Foreign Ministry, ministry spokesman, spokesman hassan, human rights, weekly press, Britain, aviation industry
Brazzaville :: Congo
| about 17 hours ago
Addressing today's UN Human Rights Council emergency meeting on Congo, UN Watch urged the 47-nation body to reinstate the independent monitor that it scrapped in March and to dispatch an immediate fact-finding mission to investigate gross human rights...
Tags: human rights, congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, EU Congo, UN Watch Slams, rights violations
Johannesburg :: South Africa
| about 17 hours ago
West Africa has the dubious distinction of having the most HIV legislation in sub-Saharan Africa: over 10 countries in the region have developed HIV laws, often with provisions that have sometimes been described as "terrifying", and a danger to HIV-positive...
Tags: hiv, aids, hiv law, human rights
San Francisco :: CA :: USA
| about 23 hours ago
A federal jury has cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago. Human rights groups had sued the San Ramon-based company under a centuries-old law allowing...
Tags: Chevron Corp., Nigerian, clears chevron, U.S, human rights, jury clears, federal jury
Suva :: Fiji Islands
| 1 day ago
The Central division march will be joined by other men and youths who have attended training on gender issues. These participants have been made aware that women have the same human rights as men and it is not cool that women are subjected to often degrading...
Tags: gender, women, human rights
Geneva :: Switzerland
| 3 days ago
Diplomats at the Geneva-based human rights body are today holding an emergency meeting to examine allegations of mass killings, rape and torture committed by DRC government soldiers and rebels described in a new UN report. The report published last week...
Tags: human rights, UN Human Rights Council, Congo
Tehrān :: Iran
| 4 days ago
U.N. human rights investigators called on Iran on Thursday to end what they called a "crackdown" on women's rights activists who have been harassed and detained for seeking equal status in the Islamic Republic. Women and men involved in a grassroots movement...
Tags: human rights, Iran
Brazzaville :: Congo
| 4 days ago
Rutshuru, one of the towns that has been caught up in battles between troops loyal to rebel general Laurent Nkunda and government troops. The fighting exploded into full-scale conflict in October after beginning to ramp up in August. Well over 250,000...
Tags: congo, cholera, DR Congo, Congolese, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan Army, eastern congo, borders posts, human rights
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 4 days ago
Human rights groups have expressed fears for the safety of a Sudanese activist in detention in Khartoum. Osman Hummaida was taken into custody along with two other activists and freed after eight hours of questioning...After the last session on Wednesday,...
Tags: human rights, arrest, Sudan, Egyptian
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti
| 4 days ago
Human rights organisation Amnesty International is calling on the Haitian government to do more to tackle the widespread rape of girls, often by gangs of armed men. Amnesty says 55% of the 105 rapes reported so far this year were of girls aged under...
Tags: rape, human rights, Haitian, sexual violence
