FBI Probes Missouri Teen's Death as Possible Hate Crime
The FBI is investigating whether the killing of a Muslim teenager outside a Somali mosque in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hate crime.
ICC: Hopes for Justice Set Back
The entrance of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Freedom of Expression online and offline: 16th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum
The 16th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum took place in Brussels on 4 and 5 December, bringing together hundreds of civil society organisations from across the globe, representatives from international and regional human rights mechanisms and from the EU...
Australian movement demands better government care of child refugees
Human trafficking: 80% of victims in the EU are women and girls
Women and girls form the vast majority of human trafficking victims, both in and outside the EU. On 2 December the EP's women's rights and civil liberties organised a meeting with UN and European Commission representatives to find out the latest about...
Russia: Human Rights Climate Unrecognizable from a Decade Ago
Dramatic deterioration in the past decade has made Russia’s human rights landscape virtually unrecognizable, Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said at a news conference in Moscow. Roth is on his first visit to the country since...
Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian homes undermine ‘already fragile situation’ – UN
Displaced Palestinians with their belongings, following Israeli authorities demolition of their...
Ending violence against women calls for legally binding global standard – UN expert
India: Women With Disabilities Locked Away and Abused
A resident sits on the floor in the women’s ward of Thane Mental Hospital, a 1,857-bed...
Egypt: Judge Issues Mass Death Sentences
An Egyptian criminal court handed down provisional death sentences against 188 defendants on December 2, 2014, the third such mass sentencing this year.
