NEW DELHI: Short on retired High Court judges, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India is considering relaxing norms for appointments of chairpersons to its state bodies. Under the current norms, all state level bodies of the National Human Rights Commission, an apex human rights body in India, have to be headed by a [...]
Egyptian freedom of expression advocates are in an uproar over the banning of a play over its alleged use of “foul language.” 24 rights movements issued a joint statement condemning al-Sawy Cultural Center in Cairo for banning the play “Mono-drama Auto bus” from showing at the center’s 7th Mono-drama theater festival taking place this month. [...]
CAIRO: A group of students at the American University in Cairo (AUC) have launched an initiative called “Heya”. The project is aiming to provide women with the tools for realizing their untapped potential and to encourage the community as a whole to appreciate a woman’s worth in society. The campaign, called Heya, is divided into [...]
NEW DELHI: Nearly three women get raped every day in the eastern state of resource-rich state of Jharkhand, a human rights report has revealed. The report titled – “Jharkhand Human Rights Report 2001-2010 said that there were almost a 1000 cases of rape registered in each of the ten years, after the relatively new Indian [...]
CAIRO: When CIA thought they killed Aymen al-Zawahiri in a bombing strike in 2002, and they want to make sure that he is the right person, they sent a request for the former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, a stalwart of the Mubarak regime, and asked him for a vial of blood from a brother of [...]
NEW DELHI: In a bid to reduce crime rate and ensure faster trials of the culprits in cases of abuse against the weaker castes of society, the chief minister of Bihar, a state in Northern India, has decided to set up a special Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) police station at each [...]
CAIRO: Police beat close to 30 demonstrators at a Jordanian police station this week, two of whom fainted from the ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today after interviewing six witnesses to the March 31, 2012 arrests, including two detainees who were later freed. Military prosecutors charged 13 of them with crimes related to their exercise [...]
NEW DELHI: Honor killings, witch burnings and dowry deaths make up the dark shades of the grim picture UN special rapporteur on summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns will take back after a 12-day visit to India to investigate human rights violations. Heyns was on a special mission to report on violations to the most [...]
SANA’A: Yemen’s Prime Minister Salam Basendwa met with Sarah Leah Whitson, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division on Monday in the capital, Sana’a, discussing ways in which Yemen could improve its track record and tackle human rights issues. Ever since the beginning of the popular uprising last year, [...]
In his book about the modern legal tradition, “The Gift of Science”, American philosopher Roger Berkowitz, offers us a glimpse – somewhat academic but not without a spirit of its own – into the failure of science – or of rationality, to be more precise – to bring about a rebirth of law and justice [...]
SANA’A: A fact-finding team of rights activists told Bikyamasr.com that their latest visit to Hajja, a northern province of Yemen under the direct control of al-Houthis (a group of Shia rebels whom advocate a return to the ancestral rule of the Imams, and with ties to Iran), revealed that residents were living under pressure and [...]
CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has condemned the continued detention of four activists of the Committee of al-Tafila’s Free Action by the security services following their participation in a sit-in on 6 March 2012 in al-Tafila district demanding job opportunities for the unemployed residents of the district. The State Security Court [...]
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is considering a submission claiming that Sri Lanka’s high commissioner to Australia, former navy Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, was involved in war crimes. The submission has been compiled by the International Commission of Jurists and a legal rights lobby group composed of respected legal figures. Direct and credible evidence of war [...]
The Iranian authorities will make a farce of a UN Committee hearing into Iran’s human rights record unless they acknowledge current and past abuses, Amnesty International warned today. The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors how states comply with their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, begins meeting today to consider [...]
A prestigious global human rights award was presented in Geneva today to a Ugandan woman who has fearlessly defended the rights of her country’s threatened lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is the winner of the 2011 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, awarded annually by 10 of the world’s [...]
Saudi Arabia has detained a 26-year-old human rights activist for the second time this year on October 2 near the town of Safwa in the Eastern part of of the country. According to London-based Amnesty International, Fadhel Maki al-Manasif has not had access to a lawyer and his family has been barred from visiting him [...]
Syria has deployed a military unit along the northern border with Lebanon after reports of activists escaping into Lebanese territory, reports on the ground said. “The unit did not cross the border with Lebanon and did not carry out any security or military operation,” a Lebanese security source told German news agency DPA. The move [...]
The Indonesian authorities must immediately investigate the use of deadly force by police at a mining protest, Amnesty International said on Monday after one protester was killed and at least six injured. Indonesian security forces opened fire on striking workers of a gold and copper mine in the eastern province of Papua run by US [...]
DUBAI: Iranian student and activist Peyman Aref was lashed 74 times on Sunday for insulting Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The sentence has angered local activists and rights groups. Aref is a student of political science at Tehran University and was sentenced to one-year in prison in March 2010 after being found guilty of insulting the [...]
Amnesty International has hailed the award of a prestigious human rights prize to a Syrian activist who was forced into hiding after defying the authorities’ crackdown on dissent. Razan Zaitouneh, 34, won the 2011 Anna Politkovskaya Award, which is given to a woman human rights defender standing up for victims in a conflict zone. “Razan [...]
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