All News
18 February 2008
The Cuban authorities released four activists from prison over the weekend.
18 February 2008
The USA's record under the International Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination will come under scrutiny next
week.
15 February 2008
Amnesty International has called on US President Bush not to veto a bill outlawing waterboarding.
14 February 2008
Every single home in the West Bank villages of Humsa and Hadidiya is slated for destruction.
13 February 2008
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologised to the
Indigenous people who were members of the Stolen Generation and their
families on Wednesday in Parli
12 February 2008
The US government is seeking the death
penalty against six “high-value”
detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged on Monday.
11 February 2008
Thousands of civilians have fled West Darfur’s Sirba region and an
unknown number were killed as the Sudan Armed Forces moved to
re-occupy the area.
08 February 2008
A large army-backed militia force is carrying out attacks on the West Darfur towns of Sirba and Abu Suruj.
07 February 2008
Amnesty International is alarmed at reports of extrajudicial killings of civilians by armed men in Chad.
06 February 2008
There is concern about the increasingly difficult
human rights situation and living conditions of some 1.5 million
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
06 February 2008
Four prominent members of the Chadian opposition have been arrested by security forces in N’Djamena.
05 February 2008
A number of journalists in Sri Lanka have received death threats in the
wake of knife attacks on two journalists in the past eleven days.
01 February 2008
Amnesty International has called for the protection of several Kenyan
human rights activists who have received death threats in the last two
weeks.
01 February 2008
Europe has taken a further step towards protecting people who have been
trafficked with the entry into force of a new convention.
31 January 2008
Over a decade after the end of Guatemala's armed conflict, many of
those responsible for its most brutal crimes continue to evade criminal
prosecution.
31 January 2008
More than 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have become stuck in
the northern Sinai region of Egypt as the Egyptian authorities try to
force them back into Gaza
29 January 2008
A group of vocal demonstrators responded to Pakistan's President Musharraf to London on Saturday.
28 January 2008
Reports from Kenya indicate that up to 70 people have been killed in ethnic killings since Thursday.
28 January 2008
Being a Syrian political or human rights activist requires courage -- the government is intolerant of dissent.
