Mangaung mayor must take a taste of her own medicine
Trade union Solidarity lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) against Olly Mlamleli, executive mayor of...
Solidariteit Solidarity
Jun 2, 2017
Burundi Youth Militia Compares Opposition to Lice in Video
Burundi human rights activists expressed outrage Tuesday over an online video that shows pro-government youth militia members teaching...
VOA (Voice of America)
May 30, 2017
300,000 Child Refugees and Migrants Traveled Alone in ’15 and ’16, U.N. Says
UNITED NATIONS — The number of children traveling by themselves among documented refugees and migrants has nearly quintupled to the...
New York Times 1
May 17, 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi met by protesters, criticism upon receiving Freedom of London award
Burma State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi receives Honorary Freedom of the City of London at Guildhall on May 8, 2017. Source: City of...
Asian Correspondent
May 12, 2017
Attacks on Gay Men in Chechnya: The Kremlin's Role in These and Other Human Rights Abuses
Police in Chechnya, a region in southern Russia, are rounding up men believed to be gay, beating and humiliating them. HRW’s Russia...
Human Rights Watch
May 9, 2017
Instruments of Pain (III): Conflict and Famine in Somalia
I.Overview History is at risk of tragically repeating itself. Once again, conflict-wracked Somalia is faced with mass hunger, just six...
International Crisis Group 1
May 9, 2017
Mexico’s President Vows to Step Up Protections for Journalists
By Azam Ahmed MEXICO CITY — Faced with a wave of deadly attacks against journalists, the president of Mexico has vowed to take concrete...
New York Times 1
May 5, 2017
Philippines: UN Members Should Denounce Killings, Abuses
(Geneva) – United Nations member countries should denounce the Philippines’ brutal “war on drugs” that has killed more than 7,000 people...
Human Rights Watch
May 3, 2017
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Resolution 2163/2017 on the protection of the rights of parents and children belo
1. The Parliamentary Assembly notes that the population of the member States of the Council of Europe is more ethnically, culturally and...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
May 2, 2017
Over 1,000 Police Officers Are Detained in Raids in Turkey
Officers suspected of supporting the American-based cleric Fethullah Gulen were escorted to the police headquarters in Kayseri, Turkey,...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
Nikki Haley Presides Over Human Rights Discussion at U.N. Security Council
In a bid to show that the Trump administration cares about human rights around the world, its envoy to the United Nations, Nikki R....
New York Times 1
Apr 18, 2017
Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad
By Anne Barnard and Michael R. Gordon The body of a child after a reported gas attack on Tuesday in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in...
New York Times 1
Apr 5, 2017
