Genocide Watch
Mar 17, 2017
India beefs up security at Taj Mahal after ISIS threat
AGRA (AFP) - India has boosted security at the Taj Mahal after a pro-ISIS group reportedly warned of attacks in the country and...
Genocide Watch
Mar 16, 2017
Ethiopia: Human Rights Watch Denounces Ethiopian Government’s Human Rights Abuses
(c) Human Rights Watch, photo of Mr. Felix Horne Human Rights Watch’s Ethiopia and Eritrea Researcher, Mr. Felix Horne, addressed the US...
North Korea Freedom Coalition
Mar 16, 2017
Action Items for North Korea Freedom and Human Rights
Dear NKFC Members and Friends: A few items for you regarding freedom and human rights for the people of North Korea: NKFC Panel March...
Genocide Watch
Mar 14, 2017
Human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations in the Syrian Arab Republic, 21 Ju
Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s...
James Kirchick | Tablet
Mar 14, 2017
Hungary’s Ugly State-Sponsored Holocaust Revisionism
A stone’s throw from Budapest’s majestic Gothic revival parliament building, Freedom Square teems with monuments attesting to Hungary’s...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 14, 2017
Sudan’s New Image Can’t Disguise Harsh Reality
By Jehanne Henry Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir speaks during a press conference after the oath of the prime minister and first...
Genocide Watch
Mar 13, 2017
Statement by Ms. Yanghee LEE, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar at the
Statement by Ms. Yanghee LEE, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar at the 34th session of the Human Rights...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 13, 2017
Egypt’s Christians Flee ISIS Violence
By Joe Stork Hundreds of Egyptian Coptic Christian families have fled their homes in the northern Sinai Peninsula since late February,...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 13, 2017
‘Your Children Will Die if You Don’t Stop’
By Boris Dittrich Michel Togué, a lawyer in the African country of Cameroon, has received death threats for defending lesbians and gays....
BBC News
Mar 12, 2017
Mosul IS battle: 'Remains of prisoners' found at mass grave site
More evidence has been discovered of a reported massacre in 2014 of up to 600 inmates at Badoush prison near Mosul, Iraqi forces say. The...
BBC News
Mar 11, 2017
Hounded and ridiculed for complaining of rape
When soldiers went searching for militants in Myanmar's Rakhine state last October, the result for members of the Rohingya minority was...
BBC News
Mar 10, 2017
Who will help Myanmar's Rohingya?
They have been described as the world's most persecuted people. Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours,...