Un High Commissioner for Human Rights

China Criticized For Not Arresting Sudan President

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 08.30.2011

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GENEVA — The U.N.'s top human rights official criticized China on Thursday for failing to arrest Sudan's president so that he can be brought to ...

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Jailed Iranian Lawyer Puts Her Life on the Line

Hadi Ghaemi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hadi Ghaemi

By Hadi Ghaemi and Aaron Rhodes On a dry hunger strike since 31 October, Iranian human right lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh's health is in serious danger in ...

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Congo Massacres: First Revenge, Then Blood Money

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evelyn Leopold

The United Nations officially released an explosive report on massacres of desperate Hutu men, women and children who trekked across vast expanses of the Congo to escape Rwanda's Tutsi-led army, which kept catching up to them.

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Improving Democracy

Navi Pillay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Navi Pillay

Chipping away at the impediments to democracy is long, slow, often unglamorous work, but when it produces results in the form of a freely and fairly elected government it is priceless.

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Anti-Racism Conference Backed By UN Rights Chief

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — The U.N. rights chief on Monday rejected fears that an upcoming U.N. conference on racism might be hijacked by critics of Israel and ur...

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