The year-long trial of Indian human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen
suffered another delay on Monday, further prolonging the doctor's
unjust stay in jail.
The United Nations (UN) now estimates that more than 6,500 civilians
have died and 13000 injured in the fighting in the north eastern region
of Sri Lanka.
Around 100,000 desperate civilians still trapped in the conflict zone, require urgent humanitarian aid as reports emerge
that food and medical supplies are running lo
A series of simultaneous press conferences were held in seven African
countries on Wednesday to warn that millions of people in Darfur face
death and disease.
Denied their rights to housing, employment, healthcare and education,
Roma are often victims of forced evictions, racist attacks and police
ill-treatment.
The Paraguayan state is failing to adequately protect the rights of its Indigenous Peoples, forcing many to live in misery and effectively condemning some to death.
Up to 1,000 people have been taken from their
villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio
In a worrying development in the deteriorating situation in Nepal, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) (Maoist) is blockading all vehicles from entering or leaving Kath
The expulsions came soon after the International Criminal
Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al
Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes a
Amnesty International has called for a temporary truce and for
the creation of humanitarian corridors to allow more than quarter of a million
trapped civilians to es
