More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been
exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of
poverty and inequalit
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
The possible reinstatement of two policemen found guilty of torture would be an implicit encouragement from the Egyptian authorities for all police officers to use tor
"Egypt and other members of the League of Arab States should not shield President Bashir from international justice," said Irene Khan, Amnesty International&
Experts of the Human Rights Council have concluded that the Egyptian
authorities have detained blogger Karim Amer arbitrarily for his online
criticisms and for exerc
The Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudanese government
were reported to have struck an agreement on Monday that paves the way
for Darfur peace talks.
