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North Korea rights advocates in South Korea turned to international courts for aid in challenging abuses. They are trying to keep the issue in the public eye as a tough winter and a drastic currency revaluation raise the prospect of more crackdowns.
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.
"Article 3--everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person," said Peace Action members. "Sometimes, we, Americans, tend to forget what human rights mean to people in other countries. When we bomb a village in Afghanistan, the Afghanis or the Pakistanis are saying, what about our human rights?" said Jim Clune of Peace Action. About 10 people came out to Confluence Park to ...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Activists are organizing a "day of solitary" in support of women's right to pray at the Western Wall in "dignity, in safety and in shared community."
President Barack Obama said he was grateful and humbled to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and acknowledged his accomplishments are slight when compared to past...
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Secret Policeman's Film Festival In 1979, John Cleese and producer Martin Lewis helped put together a benefit for Amnesty International that featured half the members of Monty Python, a number of UK stand-ups and sketch comedy performers, and an acoustic set from ...
The Goldstone report drove the Israelis and Palestinians apart, a U.S. State Department official said.
by Ian Black, Middle East editor, and Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem The British government has for the first time called on all supermarkets to inform customers clearly when they are buying food produced by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The new guidance on food labelling significantly increases UK pressure on Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, and ...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Activists will hold a special prayer at the Western Wall in support of women's right to wear a tallit.
British trip-hop legends Portishead, who released their first album since their 90s ...
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