UN Praises, Chides Serbia On Rights

Leaders of the G8 power on Wednesday raised worries about human rights in North Korea including concern for nine citizens who fled from the communist country and were forcibly repatriated after being apprehended in Laos. Following the G8 summit in ...

Visiting Serbia at "an important and transformative moment" in its history, the United Nations human rights chief Tuesday urged a steadfast focus on fundamental rights as she hailed a succession of political advances that augur well for the country ...

New York-based Human Rights Watch said the code is unnecessary and infringes on the right to free expression, while Sri Lanka's Free Media Movement said it would drastically affect the media freedom and the country's democratic set up. The ...

Afghanistan: UN Concerned Over Appointment of New Human Rights Commissioners New York, Jun 18 2013 - The United Nations human rights Office today expressed concern over President Hmid Karzai's appointment of five new commissioners to the ...

The Government's treatment of disabled people has been criticised before the United Nations. In its submission to the UN Human Rights Council, the New Zealand Human Rights Commission attacked the Government for passing laws under urgency, human ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission AHRC has appealed the UN Special Rapporteur to press the Manipur authorities for conducting thorough and independent investigation in connection with the alleged arrest of two human rights defenders on fabricated charges for ...

CHARLOTTE Given that both sides have been accused of atrocities, including verification that President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons and that rebels have been accused of eating human flesh in public, it seems an insurmountable task to ...

An independent U.N. investigator says South Korea's National Security Law seriously restricts human rights. Margaret Sekaggya told reporters in Seoul on Friday that the law violates the constitutional rights of activists whom the government labels as ...

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva says his country may end its boycott of the U.N.'s top human rights forum. In a letter dated June 3, Eviatar Manor says he wants to engage the head of the U.N. Human Rights Council "with a view to positively ...