McCain Says Green Movement ‘Might Be Supportive’ Of An Attack On Iran
Last year at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made headlines when he called on President Obama to support an attack on Iran to prevent it from acquiring...
View ArticleAP: Chinese Dissident Says He Left Embassy Because Of Threats Against Family
The tale of Chinese dissident and legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s stay at the U.S. embassy in Beijing seemed to be moving toward a tentative close just this morning. The blind activist left for...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Senate Hearing On Prison Isolation: Solitary Confinement ‘Makes...
Mock solitary cell set up in the hearing room. Photo credit: Dolores Panales Sen.
View ArticleRio + 20: Outcome Document Undermined by Human Rights Opponents
Global economic troubles are being matched by a recession in human rights with worryingly minimal commitments coming out of the United Nations Rio+20 conference on Sustainable Development, Amnesty...
View ArticleDestroying the Commons: On Shredding the Magna Carta
Noam Chomsky Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated,...
View ArticleActivists Call For U.S. And Allies To Support Democracy Movement In Sudan
Police Attack Protesters In Khartoum Ahead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first visit to South Sudan , which officially seceded from Sudan just last year, the Enough Project’s John...
View ArticleUS/Texas: Halt Execution of Man with Intellectual Disabilities
Texas should not execute a man who has significant intellectual disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today. Marvin Lee Wilson, who was sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a police drug...
View ArticleBahrain Imprisons Human Rights Leader
By Jen Marlowe, August 17, 2012 “We should be willing to pay the price for the freedom that we fight for. And this is the price,” says Nabeel Rajab.
View ArticleRussian Human Rights Official Calls Pussy Riot Sentence ‘Excessive’
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (photo: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images) Reuters reports that Russia’s human rights “ombudsman,” Vladimir Lukin, said that prison sentences a Russian court...
View ArticleSupreme Court Judge Overturns Suspension of Belo Monte Dam
The Brazilian Supreme Court has overturned the suspension of the Belo Monte Dam, caving to pressure from President Dilma Rousseff’s administration without giving appropriate consideration to the...
View ArticleUnited Nations Reveals New Worldwide Guide To LGBT Fairness And Safety
The United Nations Human Rights Office has released a new publication , Born Free and Equal, that outlines core legal obligations that countries have for their LGBT people. The guide is built around...
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