Tibetan School Girl Dies in Self-Immolation Protest
Nineteen-year old Tibetan student Tsering Kyi died after setting fire to herself, March 5, 2012
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
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"
Mogadishu remains insecure months after the withdrawal of Al-Shabab insurgents
UN Human Rights Council deplores ‘brutal’ actions by Syria against civilians
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
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...
