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Israel has stopped a group of fly-in demonstrators at Tel Aviv airport.

Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy.

Malawi’s new president originally rose to prominence as a women’s rights advocate. But Shereen Essof, a regional coordinator for feminist group Just Associates in Southern Africa, says President Joyce Banda may not be able to continue the battle for gender equality in the same way as president.

Two United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of Honduras to adopt concrete measures to stop the killing of lawyers in the country, stressing that they should be able to carry out their functions without risking their lives.

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Child abductions have risen since a popular uprising overthrew former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

The Thai government’s new 「political reconciliation」 proposals will undermine justice by giving immunity to those responsible for human rights abuses during bloody confrontations in Bangkok in 2010, Human Rights Watch said today.

Well-known disabled Chinese human rights lawyer Ni Yulan and her husband, known for their activism against land grabbing, have been sentenced to jail, triggering an outcry by rights activists.

A Bangladeshi labour activist, who helped in exposing dangerous working conditions at garment factories in the country, has been tortured and killed last week, according to a report.

Britain can extradite jailed radical-Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other alleged terrorists to the United States, according to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.

Malian refugee women wait with their children to receive relief items from UNHCR in Gaoudel, Ayorou district, northern Niger.