More than 200 drug addicts are on the run after a mass escape from a rehabilitation centre in Vietnam. Security guards were overpowered by the inmates and were forced to open the main gate to […]
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”. […]
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 […]
The Oman Human Rights Commission (OHRC) took over the Network’s chairmanship at the 13th General Assembly meeting of Arab Human Rights Network in Muscat yesterday. In attendance were renowned Arab, regional and international figures, chairmen […]
Serious human rights concerns have been raised by a Reuters report that Yahoo had scanned the emails of hundreds of millions of users at the request of a U.S. intelligence service, a United Nations’ human […]
An Iranian woman has been sentenced to 6 years in prison after authorities found an unpublished story she wrote about women being stoned to death. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a female Iranian writer and human rights activist, […]
The world’s governing bodies have tasked a group of experts to expand the health and human rights of women, children and adolescents everywhere. The new working group aims to generate high-level political support and technical […]
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