France's highest court upheld George Soros' conviction for insider trading Wednesday in a case dating back nearly 20 years, and the billionaire investor vowed to fight the ruling at the European Court of Human Rights.
A Syrian military court ruled that a dissident writer must serve six months in prison after convicting him on charges that include insulting the president, a human rights group said Wednesday.
The government human rights organization said Monday Egyptian police and security forces should reassess "excessively cruel security measures" used against protesters in recent demonstrations in Cairo.
A tangle of past atrocities has risen to the forefront of Peru's presidential election, leaving voters with a dispiriting question: Which alleged human rights violator do you least want for president?
Unchecked civilian abuse by Ivory Coast military and rebels — ranging from robbery to killings — threatens to derail elections planned for later this year, an international monitoring group said Thursday.
The United States is riding roughshod over human rights by outsourcing key anti-terror work in Iraq to private contractors, who operate beyond Iraqi law and outside the military chain of command, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday that the relentless pursuit of security by the world's powerful nations had undermined human rights, draining energy and attention from crises afflicting the poor and underprivileged.
President Vicente Fox has brought openness to government during his tenure but has failed to resolve lingering human rights problems, an international rights group said Wednesday.
Syrian police arrested the country's leading rights lawyer and five other activists Wednesday, bringing to nine the number of people detained this week in what a rights group described as the largest roundup of democracy campaigners in years.
Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia won seats on the new U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday despite their poor human rights records, but two rights abusers — Iran and Venezuela — were defeated.
Human rights groups say they know the new U.N. Human Rights Council will not be made up entirely of countries with stellar records — among the 64 candidates are Cuba, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. But it will definitely be better than its discredited predecessor.
The agenda is lengthy, the time is short, and U.S. leaders long have felt they have had limited success in moving China to respect the rights of its citizens.
The United States decided to forgo a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council this year rather than risk a losing battle for a panel it considers deeply flawed. But 42 countries announced their candidacy, including Cuba and Iran.
Amnesty International criticized Syria on Tuesday for arresting political and human rights activists, calling the crackdown another "blot" on the country's poor human rights record.
Twenty-one countries have declared their candidacy to be members of the new U.N. Human Rights Council including Algeria, Pakistan, Ukraine, Peru, Nicaragua and Switzerland, U.N. officials and diplomats said Monday.
Cambodia's prime minister said Wednesday that a U.N. human rights representative was no longer welcome in the Southeast Asian nation after the envoy criticized the government's crackdown on dissent.
Cambodia's prime minister said Wednesday that a U.N. human rights representative is no longer welcome in the Southeast Asian nation after the envoy criticized the government's crackdown on dissent.
The discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission held its last meeting Monday before being replaced by a new body, ending a 60-year history in which some of the world's worst offenders often used their membership to protect one another from condemnation.
The U.N. gave a green light Wednesday night to abolish the discredited Human Rights Commission on June 16, clearing the way for the new Human Rights Council to become the U.N.'s main rights watchdog.
Key elements of the new U.N. Human Rights Council approved Wednesday by the U.N. General Assembly:
The new U.N. Human Rights Council will face its first test when members are elected on May 9, with supporters and opponents watching to see if countries that are major offenders win seats — and whether the United States will even be a candidate.
The United States will vote against a proposal to create a new panel at the United Nations to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission, Washington's U.N. ambassador said.
The top U.N. negotiator for a proposed Human Rights Council said he would put off seeking final approval for the body in a last bid to overcome U.S. objections.
Russia lashed out at a State Department report that criticized its human rights record, accusing the United States of a double standard.
When 10th-graders at the School for Human Rights debated in a recent class whether Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams should be executed, they knew the question was moot.