CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.
While Eric Holder did not indicate how long the detainees might be held at the DMV, he did say that the DMV "is capable of detaining them indefinitely."
The Sri Lankan government declared victory back in May when they defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers....
Though Japan has a national policy against allowing visitors access to death row inmates, Amnesty International's latest report, "Hanging By A Thread,...
Following growing public criticism, the Financial Times magazine fDi has withdrawn its recent "Asian Personality of the Year" award to Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.
Latin America experts note that if Human Rights Watch took action and shone its spotlight on abuses in Honduras, the Obama administration would put greater pressure on the coup regime.
If the repression under the coup regime in Honduras were more widely known, it would be much more difficult for representatives of that regime to peddle their story in Washington that their government is "democratic" and "respects the rule of law."
The deeper one delves into the issue, the more Iraqis face injustice and the more peculiar the case of the Danish government appears.
Leonard Peltier has been in prison for a staggering 33 years, six more than Nelson Mandela. When he was locked up, Three Mile Island was three years away, and Ronald Reagan had barely begun to run for President.
For the past six years, the daily headlines have been dominated by the war in Iraq and the political and social turmoil and widespread violence among ...
America's Most Wanted has successfully bridged the gap between entertainment and law enforcement; The Wanted attempts to do this on an international scale.
This week, Physicians for Human Rights, using forensic analysis and satellite imagery, documented a war crime -- and the subsequent U.S. supported cover-up -- in Afghanistan.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Amnesty International accused Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes Thursday in the most comprehensive report on the recent...
Iason's detention is part a pattern of arrests and detentions of foreign reporters and Iranians working for Western news agencies.
The Secret Policeman's Film Festival celebrates three decades of comedy and music in service of Amnesty's efforts round the world.
An accurate and thoughtful film about executions in Iran would be welcome, but we will still have to wait, as the Stoning of Soraya M is not it.
Abdolfattah Soltani was arrested at his office in central Tehran on June 16th by four plainclothes security officials.
"How much do I take for granted?" Donny asked. "For me, a choice between liberty and death is a philosophical dilemma, a historical event, but never a necessary choice."
The fact that stoning still occurs today is proof that too few understand its barbarity or frequency. Anyone who claims to care about the most basic of human rights, this film is a must.
Martin Lewis is a multi-headed entertainment serpent no longer interested in being a mere producer but is bent on some plan for world domination.
As Iranians prepare to go to the polls to elect their president, human rights has surprisingly emerged as a subject of debate among the four candidates.
Calling poverty a "human rights violation" does not point to any concrete actions that the "violator" must stop in order to restore rights to the "violated."
While world leaders are focused on attempts to revive the global economy, they are neglecting deadly conflicts that are spawning massive human rights abuses.
