Afghanistan's amended Shi'ite personal status law , which entered into force July 27, still violates women's rights, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. The Afghan government announced last month that the law had been...
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Three UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Iran's Revolutionary Court to reject confessions obtained through torture of protesters of the country's disputed presidential election . A joint statement from Special Rapporteur on torture...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the government of Burundi to hold accountable those responsible for human rights violations during the country's 16-year armed conflict. HRW released the statement on the...
The Council of the European Union on Thursday announced sanctions against members of the Myanmar judiciary responsible for the verdict against opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news...
UN and Cambodian officials on Wednesday announced the establishment of an independent counselor to oversee anti-corruption efforts at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . The parties mutually agreed to...
Former Argentine general Santiago Omar Riveros was convicted of human rights abuses Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of 15-year-old Floreal Avellaneda and the detention of his mother during the country's military dictatorship. From 1976...
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger on Wednesday called for greater compliance with the Geneva Conventions , making the documents' 60th anniversary . Kellenberger said that the conventions were...
Lawyers for Myanmar opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi and American John Yettaw said Wednesday that they will file appeals against Tuesday's guilty verdicts . Suu Kyi and Yettaw were convicted of...
Chechen human rights activist Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov were found dead in the trunk of their car Tuesday, after being abducted Monday. Saulayeva and Dzhabrailov were taken from the office of her organization,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Monday that former Westar Energy CEO David Wittig and former Chief Strategy Officer Douglas Lake may face a third trial on charges of...
