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North Korea on Wednesday rejected calls by members of the UN Human Rights Council to grant access to a UN independent expert to assess the human rights situation in the country, a report said.
The United States pushed Monday for more scrutiny of human rights conditions in North Korea, telling the U.N. Human Rights Council that it is now impossible to verify claims of abuses in the isolated communist state.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — In several cities across West Papua, Indonesia's last frontier of separatist instability, hundreds of demonstrators raised the Morning Star independence flag Tuesday in protest of what they say is more than 40 years of colonial occupation by Indonesia.
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by Jon Boone in Kabul The already dire plight of women in Afghanistan risks deteriorating further as the US and its allies take steps to turn around the war against the Taliban, according to a report by Human Rights Watch today. read more
The enemy has certainly not given up.
The Pittsburgh chapter of Amnesty International will host its 23rd annual "Write-a-thon" Thursday, inviting local residents to gather in Shadyside and pen letters protesting detentions and imprisonments around the world.
Afghan women attend a rally for a presidential candidate in the 2009 elections. The situation for Afghan women and girls is dire and could deteriorate.
Gloria Steinem started out as an everyday woman who, after being moved by the stories of other women, put her passion into action. It has been written that Steinem was a voice for women's rights when women had no voice. Steinem celebrated her 75th birthday this year and with it a legacy that includes founding Ms Magazine and New York Magazine, co-creating Take Our Daughters to Work Day, starting ...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that 15 members of Grieving Mothers have been arrested in Tehran. Grieving Mothers is a group formed by the mothers of post-elections protesters who were killed in the events following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's allegedly fraudulent re-election.
France must not deport a man convicted of terrorist acts to Algeria where he may be at risk of incommunicado detention and torture or other ill-treatment, Amnesty International said today.
The Iraqi authorities must immediately stop the executions of more than 900 people on death row who have exhausted their legal appeals and could be put to death at any time, Amnesty International said.
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BENNINGTON -- An abortion debate cannot be avoided if legislation dealing with fetal homicide is taken up by the Legislature, according to a legal scholar.
The prisoners, who include 17 women, are said to have had their death sentences ratified by the Presidential Council, the final step before executions are carried out.
An Amnesty International delegation in Honduras talked to human rights activists about the hidden crisis affecting the Central American nation.
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