Human Rights
Going to Bat for Pit Bulls: Miami Marlins New Pitcher Mark Buehrle Teams with Best Friends to Urge Florida Legislators to Pass Bill Ending Canine Profiling in Miami-Dade
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DR Congo: UN concerned over new displacement of thousands of civilians
A woman forced to flee her home village rests outside a shelter in North Kivu province.
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South Sudan: UN urges redoubling of efforts to end cycle of deadly ethnic violence
Special Representative Hilde Johnson holds press conference in Juba, capital of South Sudan.
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Ethiopia: Forced Relocations Bring Hunger, Hardship
The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water source for their cattle.
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Child refugees from Libyan crisis in Norway for UN resettlement process
Displaced children from Ajdabiya play in the grounds of a converted construction camp in Benghazi, Libya
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Uganda: War Crimes Trials Face Challenges (re-post of press release)
Judges at the opening of the war crimes trial, of Thomas Kwoyelo, before Uganda’s International Crimes Division.
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Norwich Oncology Practice to Pay $316,513 to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EASTERN CONNECTICUT HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY, P.C., with offices located at 330 Washington Street in Norwich, has entered into a civil settlement with the government in which it will pay $316,513 to resolve allegations that the practice violated the False Claims Act.
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Burma: Political Prisoners Released
The release of key political prisoners on January 13, 2012 is a crucial development in promoting respect for human rights in Burma, but all remaining political prisoners should be freed immediately and unconditionally, Human Rights Watch said today.
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PAKISTAN: Mutilated for venturing outdoors
Taliban threats are making life miserable for many girls and women in remote areas of Pakistan
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Security Council presses for ethnic reconciliation in troubled area of South Sudan
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) preparing a meal in South Sudan.
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