7 February 2012
Chadian authorities forcibly evicted more than 670 people from their homes to make way for a hotel in the capital N'Djamena.
Members of the Indian army must not be allowed to invoke a controversial law to avoid trial for human rights violations.
Uganda's Parliament is urged to scrap the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill that has been re-introduced.
The Egyptian authorities are using a Mubarak-era law to prosecute civil society.
The Maldivian president has resigned following a police mutiny after a group of police officers joined opposition-led protests.
6 February 2012
A Palestinian detainee accused of links to Islamic Jihad is at risk of dying after more than 50 days on hungerstrike.
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been barred from leaving Cuba 19 times in the last four years.
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.
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.
An ICJ ruling breaches the human rights of foreign victims of Nazi war crimes by giving Germany legal immunity from being sued for reparations.
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