FEATURE: Aided by UN, star coach builds football team of Syrian refugees and young Lebanese
Tareq Al Awaychi, once a player on the Syrian national team, revives his dream of playing and coaching...
UAE: Cameron Should Press Rulers on Torture
British Prime Minister David Cameron should challenge the deteriorating human rights record of the United Arab Emirates during a state visit by the country’s president to Britain next week, a coalition of seven international human rights organizations...
Over 30,000 refugees and migrants have arrived in Yemen so far this year – UN agency
Somali refugees rest on the coast of Yemen after their gruelling sea journey from the Horn of...
Bangladesh: Tragedy Shows Urgency of Worker Protections
Rescue workers at the site of the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, outside...
Syrian refugees straining health services in region, UN warns in new report
A Syrian father watches as Turkish medical staff examine his child who has developed breathing...
OSCE meeting examines ways to facilitate freer movement of people
A departures sign at an airport.
Bangladesh: Tragedy Shows Urgency of Worker Protections
The collapse of an eight-story factory building near Dhaka shows the urgent need to improve Bangladesh’s protections for worker health and safety, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Reforms should include a drastic overhaul of the government’s system...
Taiwan: Reinstate Moratorium on Death Penalty
The government of Taiwan should immediately reinstate its moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Mexico: Abolish “Arraigo” Detention from Constitution
Mexico’s congress should reject a proposed constitutional change on preventive detention, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The proposed change, which would reduce the maximum preventive detention period from 80 days to 40, would not meet...
OSCE media freedom representative lauds passage of defamation bill by British Parliament
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, Bonn, 20 June 2011.
