The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is considering a submission claiming that Sri Lanka’s high commissioner to Australia, former navy Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, was involved in war crimes. The submission has been compiled by the International Commission of Jurists and a legal rights lobby group composed of respected legal figures. Direct and credible evidence of war [...]
The Iranian authorities will make a farce of a UN Committee hearing into Iran’s human rights record unless they acknowledge current and past abuses, Amnesty International warned today. The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors how states comply with their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, begins meeting today to consider [...]
A prestigious global human rights award was presented in Geneva today to a Ugandan woman who has fearlessly defended the rights of her country’s threatened lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is the winner of the 2011 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, awarded annually by 10 of the world’s [...]
Saudi Arabia has detained a 26-year-old human rights activist for the second time this year on October 2 near the town of Safwa in the Eastern part of of the country. According to London-based Amnesty International, Fadhel Maki al-Manasif has not had access to a lawyer and his family has been barred from visiting him [...]
Syria has deployed a military unit along the northern border with Lebanon after reports of activists escaping into Lebanese territory, reports on the ground said. “The unit did not cross the border with Lebanon and did not carry out any security or military operation,” a Lebanese security source told German news agency DPA. The move [...]
The Indonesian authorities must immediately investigate the use of deadly force by police at a mining protest, Amnesty International said on Monday after one protester was killed and at least six injured. Indonesian security forces opened fire on striking workers of a gold and copper mine in the eastern province of Papua run by US [...]
DUBAI: Iranian student and activist Peyman Aref was lashed 74 times on Sunday for insulting Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The sentence has angered local activists and rights groups. Aref is a student of political science at Tehran University and was sentenced to one-year in prison in March 2010 after being found guilty of insulting the [...]
Amnesty International has hailed the award of a prestigious human rights prize to a Syrian activist who was forced into hiding after defying the authorities’ crackdown on dissent. Razan Zaitouneh, 34, won the 2011 Anna Politkovskaya Award, which is given to a woman human rights defender standing up for victims in a conflict zone. “Razan [...]
DUBAI: A Canadian man, his wife and two children have been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis said, adding that the government has done nothing to pressure the conservative Gulf kingdom for their release. The MP has called on the government that Canada should, at the very least, “pressure for the children, two [...]
The decision by the Nobel Peace Prize committee to recognize the work of activists to defend the rights of women around the world was commended by Amnesty International today. “This Nobel Peace Prize recognizes what human rights activists have known for decades: that the promotion of equality is essential to building just and peaceful societies [...]
The United Nations independent working group on arbitrary detention on Wednesday voiced concern over Germany’s preventive detention system, citing the practice of depriving some people of their liberty after serving their prison terms because they are considered a “danger to society.” The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also drew attention to “the significantly disproportionate number of [...]
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General on Wednesday stressed the importance of UN engagement in advancing the rule of law, a vital endeavor as highlighted by the popular movements for greater accountability and transparency seen in several countries this year. In an address to the General’s Assembly committee which deals with legal matters, also known as [...]
The Bahrain Press Association (BPA) has released their first report on freedom of media and press in Bahrain. The report bears the title “The word equals death,” foreshadowing what is found within. The BPA is an organization based in London which is dedicated to defending the freedom of media and press in Bahrain. The report [...]
AUCKLAND: Salil Shetty is the 8th Secretary-General of the human rights watchdog, Amnesty International. From 1998-2003, Shetty was chief executive at ActionAid, for which he has been heavily commended for transforming into a leading international organization. From 2003-2010, Shetty headed the UN Millennium Campaign after which he joined Amnesty. He played a pivotal role in [...]
The United Nations human rights office today voiced deep concern about the anti-Roma demonstrations and accompanying hate speech that have been occurring in Bulgaria, and called on authorities to combat discrimination and protect minority groups. The demonstrations began on September 23, when an ethnic Bulgarian youth was run over and killed in the village of Katunitsa by [...]
CAIRO: Egypt-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the Military Police for its continuous detention and use of violence against civilians, in a press statement on Monday. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the country’s top authority since the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak, has lost a lot of its [...]
The two investigating judges at the hybrid Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), created to try Khmer Rouge mass crimes and to bring justice to the Cambodian people, have egregiously violated their legal and judicial duties and should resign, Human Rights Watch said today. The co-investigating judges, You Bunleng (Cambodia) and United Nations-nominated [...]
The head of the United Nations refugee agency today called on the international community to ramp up its efforts to pre-empt humanitarian crises, citing the current deadly famine in Somalia as an example of a lack of both foresight and of means take preventive action. “All of us could see this escalation coming from a long way [...]
All parties to Libya’s armed conflict must act to spare civilians and ensure that urgently needed supplies can be delivered safely to Sirte, Amnesty International said today amid reports that the humanitarian situation in the coastal city is rapidly worsening. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was able to visit Sirte on Saturday, [...]
The Serbian authorities’ decision to ban Sunday’s Belgrade Pride event is a “dark day for human rights”, leading humans rights organization Amnesty International said on Friday. The Serbian National Security Council today said the Pride march would not be held due to security threats from extremist right-wing groups, who had reportedly threatened violence and arson [...]
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