Two Venezuelan firefighters were detained by military officers this week as suspects behind the making of a viral video that mocked unpopular President Nicolas Maduro by likening him to a donkey touring a fire station, two rights groups said on Friday.
Australia is reported to UN human rights council over illegal detention of asylum seekers
Government condemned for arbitrary detention of three asylum seekers, including a stateless man held for nearly nine years
United Nations body has condemned Australia’s arbitrary detention of three asylum seekers, one of whom has been held without charge or trial for nearly nine years.
The UN working group on arbitrary detention – which reports to the human rights council, on which Australia sits – said in its annual report it was concerned by “the rising prevalence of deprivation of liberty of immigrants and asylum seekers” worldwide and “the growing use of detention in the context of migration”.
25 years Since the Oslo Accords: Israeli Security Depends on Palestinian Rights
OSLO, Norway, Sep 14 (IPS) – Jan Egeland is Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He co-organized the secret talks between Israel and Palestine that led to the historic 1993 Oslo Accords. Twenty-five years ago, on 13 September 1993, I sat on the White House lawn to witness the landmark signing of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Diplomats around me gasped as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with former foe, Chairman Yasser Arafat. But for some of us present, the handshake came as no surprise.
Spain to ‘honor’ sale of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia despite halting it over rights groups outcry
Just about a week after halting a bombs’ sale to Riyadh following a widespread indignation over Saudi Arabia’s indiscriminate bombing in Yemen, the Spanish government said it would still go ahead with the deal.
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UK mass surveillance programme violates human rights, European court rules
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U.S. diplomat says Eritrea human rights record is still a concern
The top U.S. diplomat for Africa welcomed a rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea ending two decades of hostility but said concerns over Eritrea’s human rights record hindered cooperation with Washington.
Gun violence in the US is a human rights crisis: Amnesty
Rights group says ‘all aspects of American life are compromised’ due to lack of proper gun regulation.
China to UN rights chief Bachelet: 'Respect our sovereignty'
Beijing pushes back against new high commissioner for human rights who decried crackdown of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Around 100 human rights activists protested outside Japan’s de facto embassy in Taipei on Monday demanding that a member of a Japanese right-wing group be barred from leaving Taiwan after he was caught on security camera kicking a “comfort woman” memorial.
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Muslim minority in China's Xinjiang face 'political indoctrination': Human Rights Watch
The Turkic mostly Muslim Uighur minority in China’s Xinjiang region face arbitrary detentions, daily restrictions on religious practice and “forced political indoctrination” in a mass security crackdown, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.