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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 […]

Trump As President Would Pose Global Danger Warns Human Rights Commissioner

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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein cited Trump’s views on vulnerable communities including minorities and his talk of authorizing torture in interrogations, banned under international law, as “deeply unsettling and disturbing”. […]

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 […]

Garry Kasparov wins human rights case against Russia

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On 18 May 2007, Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion and political activist, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. His ticket and passport confiscated, he was taken to a police office and questioned for […]

Nadia Murad, Yazidi Woman Who Survived ISIS Captivity, Wins Human Rights Prize

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Fighters for the Islamic State abducted a young Yazidi woman named Nadia Murad, her siblings and their mother from their village in northern Iraq more than two years ago. Barely in her 20s, Ms. Murad […]

Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner cancels visit to Russia

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STRASBOURG, October 11. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks has decided to cancel his working visit to Russia. He took this decision because he did not agree with a number of […]

World Day against the Death Penalty (October 10, 2016)

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On the occasion of ‘World Day against the Death Penalty’, which marks the 35th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development and Harlem […]

Challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s asset forfeiture laws

October 11, 2016 zoshinuk 0

Following the seizure of their car by the Navajo County Attorney’s Office, an elderly Washington couple, Terry and Maria Platt, are challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s asset forfeiture laws. They are represented by the Institute […]

Ilham Tohti Receives Human Rights Award

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GENEVA — A prominent Uighur scholar, jailed in China after speaking out against brutal repression in his native Xinjiang (a region in China’s far west), has been named as the winner of a prestigious international […]

Protecting human rights

October 10, 2016 zoshinuk 0

KUWAIT: Speaking at a press conference, Chairman of the Kuwait Association for Basic Elements of Human Rights, Dr Yousef Al-Sager, stressed that developments in protecting human rights have led to considerable changes in NGOs’ working […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

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A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

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France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]