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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Thursday discharged six justices of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan for corruption. The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office has opened criminal cases [RFE/RL...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday held a debate and adopted the outcomes from its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the US. The review provided the US with 228 recommendations in 10 different...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday urged the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to take action against the government of Puerto Rico for alleged civil rights violations....

China has failed to achieve the goals it set out in its first national human rights plan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) declared in a report released on Tuesday. In its assessment of the government's National Human...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) issued recommendations Tuesday for the US to align its human rights policies and practices with international standards. The recommendations stem from the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of...

The US government's human rights record came under criticism Friday during the country's first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) . Among the criticisms leveled at the US were the treatment...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Thursday announced during a local TV broadcast that he will not sign a controversial law that would grant him several presidential powers for life, even if he stepped down from...

The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected 14 new members to the Human Rights Council (HRC) , half of which have questionable human rights records. Several of the new members, including Libya, Angola, Malaysia, Thailand,...

The upper house of the Kazakhstan parliament approved a constitutional amendment on Thursday to expand the powers of President Nursultan Nazarbayev . The bill, which was introduced to the parliament just last week, was approved [JURIST...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday encouraged the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states to address continuing rights issues , including women's rights, treatment of migrant...