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Civil Rights Advocates Concerned About Election Day

October 15, 2016 zoshinuk 0

ATLANTA – There are nationwide challenges that could disrupt electoral voting. New ID requirements, placement of polling places, missing names on the voter roll, hackers and political intervention to name some. With no national standards […]

Press penalties breach European Convention on Human Rights

October 14, 2016 zoshinuk 0

UK The publisher of the Daily Mail (and Mail on Sunday) has claimed that the penalties for newspapers that do not sign up to government-backed press regulation breach the European Convention on Human Rights. The […]

Former PM Guterres awarded Human Rights Prize

October 14, 2016 zoshinuk 0

PORTUGAL Portugal’s parliament has awarded António Guterres its 2016 Human Rights Prize, for his performance as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the speaker of parliament announced on Wednesday. Guterres is expected shortly to be acclaimed […]

Maldives leaves Commonwealth after human rights criticism

October 14, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Last month the Commonwealth put the Maldives on six months notice, “to address concerns including the detention and prosecution of opposition leaders, meddling with the judiciary and undermining democratic institutions”. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative said […]

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) campaigns for Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World to UN Human Rights Commissioner

October 14, 2016 zoshinuk 0

GENEVA The General Secretary of the IFJ Anthony Bellanger met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (HCHR) yesterday to present the IFJ’s work and its role in defending human rights and […]

Zeinab Sekaanvand Lokran, 22, could be imminently executed in Iran . Here’s how you can try and stop it

October 13, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Zeinab Sekaanvand Lokran was 17 when she was tortured for 20 days until she confessed to the murder of her abusive husband. She was a child under International Law — the International Covenant on Civil […]

George Soros intrudes in Colorado district attorney race

October 13, 2016 zoshinuk 0

A political action committee with links to financier George Soros is hoping to defeat Jefferson and Gilpin County , 1st Judicial district, District Attorney Pete Weir by funding detrimental adverts. Colorado’s voters elect a district […]

Human rights groups protest in Lagos, demand resignation of arrested judges

October 12, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Members of human rights and anti-corruption groups, led by Comrades Desmond Abiola and Salau Kola , led a peaceful protest yesterday in Lagos urging the judges arrested last weekend by the Department of State Security […]

British military opt-out of human rights?

October 12, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Glasgow, United Kingdom The 1998 Human Rights Act enshrined into UK law the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a treaty to which Britain has been a signatory since 1951, but which – until […]

Burundi suspends local activities of UN human rights office

October 11, 2016 zoshinuk 0

KIGALI, Rwanda Burundi has been gripped by violence since President Pierre Nkurunziza won a third term last year. In September, the UN released a report implicating the country’s security forces in massive rights violations. The […]

Human Rights

Kenyan doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie given life sentence for murdering 191 people

November 6, 2026 0

A Kenyan court has sentenced the leader of a doomsday cult, Paul Mackenzie, to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people, all but one of them children. Alongside 28 others, Mackenzie was found guilty […]

Human Rights

All 548 death row inmates in California to have sentences changed to life in prison

November 6, 2026 0

Governor Gavin Newsom said he’ll commute all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He made the announcement as he prepares to leave office after eight years in […]

Australia

Australian murderer loses bid to eat Vegemite in prison

October 26, 2026 0

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia has lost his bid to overturn a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the salty yeast-based spread that has become a national symbol. Andre McKechnie argued […]

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Civil Rights Advocates Concerned About Election Day

Press penalties breach European Convention on Human Rights

Former PM Guterres awarded Human Rights Prize

Maldives leaves Commonwealth after human rights criticism

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) campaigns for Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World to UN Human Rights Commissioner

Zeinab Sekaanvand Lokran, 22, could be imminently executed in Iran . Here’s how you can try and stop it

George Soros intrudes in Colorado district attorney race

Human rights groups protest in Lagos, demand resignation of arrested judges

British military opt-out of human rights?

Burundi suspends local activities of UN human rights office