PAKISTAN: UPR report lacks objective realism and denies the reality concerning human rights - Part I
For the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Pakistan, the country presented a four-year working report of how the government improved the state of human rights in Pakistan. Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, the foreign minister leading the Pakistan...
SRI LANKA: The banality of the impeachment
Iran: Political Prisoners Denied Visits, Care
UAE: EU Condemns Emirates Rights Climate
The European Parliament on October 26, 2012, adopted a resolution on the deteriorating human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Rwanda: Eight-Year Sentence for Opposition Leader
Ukrainian elections marred by lack of level playing field, say international observers
A woman casts her vote in the town of Irpin during Ukraine's parliamentary elections on 28 October 2012.
OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern over Greek journalist case, calls for open trial
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, speaking during the opening session of the Supplementary Human Dimension...
Attack on Congolese doctor sparks outrage from UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict
Survivors of sexual violence in the DR of Congo during hearings held by a UN Panel of Experts
Israel: Asylum Seekers Blocked at Border - part 2
According to various sources, on at least seven occasions since June, Israel has prevented dozens of Eritrean asylum seekers from seeking asylum in Israel on the Egypt-Israel border. In July, Israel also unlawfully deported around 40 Eritreans from...
Israel: Asylum Seekers Blocked at Border - part 1
The Israeli military has since June 2012 prevented dozens of asylum seekers, most of them Eritreans, from crossing Israel’s newly constructed fence on its border with Egypt, Human Rights Watch, the Hotline for Migrant Workers, and Physicians for Human...
