Human Rights

Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival

The company at the center of the nuclear meltdown disaster in Japan has been subject to enormous public, government and international criticism over the past year.

Singapore: Domestic Workers to Get Weekly Day of Rest

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The decision by Singapore’s Manpower Ministry to grant foreign domestic workers a weekly rest day is an...

UNESCO launches World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education

The World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education includes more than 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

THAILAND: Threats to political freedom intensify with assault on HRD and law professor

Professor Worachet Pakeerut, a law professor at Thammasat University, leader of the Khana Nitirat, and human rights defender (HRD), was assaulted by two men outside the Faculty of Law at Thammasat University.

Egypt court rejects cases against Christian media mogul

An Egyptian court has rejected the second of two lawsuits filed by ultra-conservative Islamists that had accused a Christian media mogul of insulting Islam when he relayed a cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil.

SOMALIA: Mogadishu terror continues, despite Al-Shabab "withdrawal"

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Mogadishu remains insecure months after the withdrawal of Al-Shabab insurgents

UN Human Rights Council deplores ‘brutal’ actions by Syria against civilians

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Voting on resolution condemning violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian...

Gunmen kill blue helmet serving with UN-AU mission in Darfur

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India: A Decade on, Gujarat Justice Incomplete

Authorities in India’s Gujarat state are subverting justice, protecting perpetrators, and intimidating those promoting accountability 10 years after the anti-Muslim riots that killed nearly 2,000 people, Human Rights Watch said today. The state...

NEPAL: Council action required to prevent blanket impunity for conflict-era violations

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Advocacy Forum wish to alert the Human Rights Council to multiple attempts by the government of Nepal to shield perpetrators of human rights abuses committed during the conflict from prosecution, which...