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Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the increasing number of African asylum seekers crossing into Israel -- including, say refugee rights groups, a policy of shooting those along the border. But those who make it to the Promised Land face hardship
The Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) "conduct(s) large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, non-governmental organisations and international development agencies," and disseminates its findings widely.
Councilwoman Melinda Katz will take a new job at an international law firm upon completing her second term in the City Council. It seems the city’s jobs crisis isn’t hurting defeated Queens pols.
A nonprofit advocacy group has renewed its efforts to legally block new rules governing foster care in Tennessee.
Indian Parliamentarians voting on a government introduced bill to amend the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) must repeal the law instead, Amnesty International said on the occasion of Human Rights Day
To mark World Human Rights Day, Amnesty International spoke to three women who put their lives on the line in defence of human rights.
Lebanese national 'Ali Hussain Sibat and another unidentified man, could be executed at any time if their sentences are upheld by the appeal and Supreme Courts.
Amnesty International is urging the Italian government to ensure that two recently released former Guantánamo Bay detainees receive fair trials in Italy and are not sent back to Tunisia where they would be at risk of torture.
The Philippine authorities should immediately establish a clear and short timetable for an end to martial law in the country’s restive Maguindanao province and dismantle armed paramilitary groups throughout the country, Amnesty International said in Manila today.
Organization Urges Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Allow UN Special Rapporteurs to Conduct Inquiry in Iran.
Amnesty International exposed the shocking level of unlawful police killings in Nigeria, in a new report released today.
The Russian authorities must stop persecuting human rights activists and instead channel their efforts into investigating those responsible for their murders, Amnesty International said ahead of Human Rights Day.
Park Center High School students added to their knowledge of international affairs by speaking with a women's rights leader from Afghanistan Nov. 13. The students, IB Diploma candidates, participated in a video conference with Suraya Pakzad.
Time magazine has several contenders for its annual Person of the Year issue, including Timothy Geithner, Stanley McChrystal, Usain Bolt and Ben Bernanke. More forward-thinking publications, however, have all but declared 2009 as the Year of the Woman. "Never has there been a time in which more remarkable women have distinguished themselves," said famed women's rights activist and Ms. magazine ...
Editorâs note: This is the first in a series of stories on local veterans of the Afghanistan invasion or the war in Iraq.
Oona A. Hathaway, newly designated as the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, focuses her current research on the intersection of domestic and international law.
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