Every year, thousands of people are killed, injured, raped and forced to flee from their homes as a result of abuses and atrocities committed with conventional ...
In this oral intervention Südwind and Amnesty International express concern that discriminatory selection procedures for candidates, as well as restrictions of ...
Libyan newspaper editor Amara Abdalla al-Khatabi, who has been detained incommunicado since 19 December 2012, began a hunger strike on 28 February 2013. His health ...
Two of the co-founders of a Saudi Arabian human rights organization have been imprisoned on charges related to their human rights activism and criticism of the ...
Muhammad Abdul Karim Muhammad Haza'a was executed on 9 March 2013 despite international and local appeals, including a request by the Yemeni Attorney General to ...
Ten years after the US-led invasion that overthrew President Saddam Hussein, Iraq remains mired in human rights abuses. Armed groups opposed to the government continue ...
The Omani Supreme Court has upheld sentences against eight activists, while referring the cases of eight others for retrial. On the basis of information received ...
On 21 or 22 March 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will vote on the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human ...