Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday criticized Omani courts for jailing two online activists over posts they wrote on social media websites. In one of the cases, former diplomat Hassan al-Basham was sentenced to three years in...
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South Dakota's state senate on Tuesday passed a bill which, if approved by the governor, will make South Dakota the first state to enact bans on opposite-sex bathroom and shower use in public schools. The Student Physical Privacy...
UN rights chief troubled by China crackdown on lawyers and activists
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday expressed concern over China's recent crackdown on lawyers and activists. The commissioner stated that civil society workers should be protected by the state,...
The US Senate on Thursday voted in favor of a wide-ranging House bill aiming to strengthen US trade, sending the bill to President Barack Obama to be signed. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015...
A German court on Thursday began the trial of a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. The accused, Reinhold Hanning, voluntarily joined the armed Schuzstaffel (SS) when he was 18 years old and was...
HRW: proposed amendments to Indonesia terror law threaten human rights
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Indonesian Parliament to reject proposed amendments to its law on the "eradication of terrorism" . HRW asserts that the proposed amendments are too vague...
UK parliament committee: security bill does not adequately protect privacy
The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament released a report on Monday outlining its concerns with a proposed bill that plans to expand data collection and Internet spying. The Investigatory Powers Bill...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement released on Friday urged all concerned countries to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030, calling it a “violent practice" scarring girls for life , endangering their...
UN SG urges African leaders to avoid using loopholes to 'cling to power'
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged African leaders to avoid using loopholes and undemocratic constitutional changes to "cling to power." In his address at the twenty-sixth African Union Summit in...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Chinese government on Friday to overturn a verdict sentencing three human rights activists, including a lawyer, in the Guangdong province to up to five years in prison. The individuals were...
