High Court To Hear HIV-Positive Pilot's Privacy Case
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case testing whether the federal government is liable for damages when it violates the Privacy Act by disclosing that an individual is HIV-positive. The government does not dispute that it broke...
Beyond Fighting Crime, FBI Reaches Out To Victims
When FBI agents arrive at the scene of a shooting or a terrorist attack, there's often someone else standing in the background. It's a representative from the FBI's Office for Victim Assistance, there to help people suffering in the aftermath of a...
PAKISTAN: Domestic violence is the most under-reported crime and condoned by social customs
Violence against women is a major health and human rights concern in Pakistan. Women can experience sexual, physical or mental abuse throughout their life cycle, in infancy, childhood and during adulthood or older age. Violence against women has...
NIGERIA: Shantytown dwellers face eviction
Residents of Port Harcourt’s shantytowns say they live in fear being forcibly evicted
EGYPT: Refugees hit by discrimination, violence amid heightened nationalism
Refugees in Egypt face unemployment, difficult living conditions and xenophobia
PAKISTAN: Balochistan mourns its missing
Protesters in Balochistan demand to know the wherabouts of missing relatives
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UN finds child labour, underage marriage among displaced Central Africans
Children at an IDP camp in Kabo, northern Central African Republic
Mexico: Widespread Rights Abuses in ‘War on Drugs’
Mexican Army and municipal police officers conduct a joint raid in Ciudad Juárez searching street...
SOMALIA: Migrants targeted in Somaliland
Somaliland officials have expressed concern over an increase in the number of illegal immigrants
AFGHANISTAN: Hussain Ali, "We need protection not detention"
Hussain Ali has been detained for more than 21 months
