3 February 2012
After a two-decade legal battle, the Yakye Axa indigenous community in Paraguay can finally move away from a precarious roadside camp.
7 February 2012
The Maldivian president has resigned following a police mutiny after a group of police officers joined opposition-led protests.
The Egyptian authorities are using a Mubarak-era law to prosecute civil society.
Uganda's Parliament is urged to scrap the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill that has been re-introduced.
Members of the Indian army must not be allowed to invoke a controversial law to avoid trial for human rights violations.
Chadian authorities forcibly evicted more than 670 people from their homes to make way for a hotel in the capital N'Djamena.
6 February 2012
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been barred from leaving Cuba 19 times in the last four years.
A Palestinian detainee accused of links to Islamic Jihad is at risk of dying after more than 50 days on hungerstrike.
4 February 2012
Russia and China have again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Syria, the day after a military assault killed scores of civilians in Homs.
A UN-backed tribunal has given former Khmer Rouge jailer "Duch" a life sentence for the killings of more than 12,272 people.
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