In this open letter, written on the occasion of Costa Rica's candidacy for membership of the UN Human Rights Council in the elections scheduled for 20 May 2011, ...
In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of each of fifteen countries to be considered in the Universal Periodic Review. ...
Governments use enforced disappearance as a tool of repression to silence dissent and eliminate political opposition, as well as to persecute ethnic, religious ...
TheDeclaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework forprogress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and
With the football World Cup starting this week, we have a different set of statistics: violence against women is being played out in battlefields, bedrooms and ...
On this 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,threats of new terrorist attacks and the dangers of weapons of massdestruction dominate the ...