International human rights

Israeli Occupation Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip A Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli forces in ...  

Thailand, December 15, 2009 - In recent months, hundreds of Lao Hmong political refugees and asylum seekers forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos from 2007-2009 have been summarily executed, imprisoned, tortured, or have disappeared at the hands ...  

Mexico City, Dec 10 (EFE) Amnesty International (AI) says that in the past two years there has been an increase in human rights abuses by Mexican military personnel assigned to law enforcement activities, including torture and extrajudicial executions.  

Times OnlineAmnesty International: Iran human rights violations worst in 20 yearsExaminer.comAP Photo Amnesty International released the report, Iran: Election contested, repression compounded, on Thursday describing Iran's human rights record is at ...Human rights violations in Iran worst for 20 years: AmnestyReutersReport Outlines Human Rights Violations in MexicoKRGVAmnesty: Iran violations worst in 20 yearsJerusalem PostJURIST...  

Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA policy director for (counter) terrorism and human rights, issued the following statement in response to the Obama administration's decision to relocate some of the detainees in the U.S.- controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the Thomsom Correctional Center in Illinois  

CANBERRA, Dec 16 — Australia’s offshore immigration detention centre is in breach of human rights and must be closed, Amnesty International said today, adding pressure on the government over a policy that may become a key election issue. Amnesty ...  

The Lithuanian government must ensure that its inquiry into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a secret prison on Lithuanian soil sets an example in Europe for accountability for human rights abuses, said Amnesty International. A Lithuanian parliamentary committee is currently investigating these allegations and its report is due to be issued next week. Ahead of the report's release, Amnesty International...  

Iranian security forces used rape, torture and mock executions in their campaign to crush anti-government protest this summer, an Amnesty International said today, citing a “climate of impunity” that has seen human rights in the country plunge to their lowest point in 20 years.  

Amnesty International has condemned the failure of the Guatemalan authorities to thoroughly investigate extra-judicial killings in which police officers have been implicated. In a report released today (15 December), Amnesty says that killings by ...  

The Human Rights Web Acts of injustice done between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. -- W. H. Auden, "The Ascent of F6" Human Rights Emergencies What are Human Rights? o An Introduction to Human Rights o A Short History of the Human Rights Movement o Biographies of Prisoners of Conscience Human Rights Legal and Political Documents o United Nations Documents o Other Documents o Human Rights Issues...  

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction...  

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Facts about the heroic Human Rights lawyers in China. Also see FreeGao.com for ideas about how to help the tortured lawyers.  

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