UN: Demand End to Unlawful Aleppo Attacks
The United Nations Security Council should demand that Syrian and Russian forces immediately halt unlawful attacks in eastern Aleppo and ensure that aid workers can safely deliver humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people trapped in...
100,000 fearful civilians trapped in South Sudan town
Ongoing military operations in a previously peaceful part of South Sudan have trapped an estimated 100,000 people in a town that is facing a humanitarian crisis, raising concerns for civilians’ safety.
Court Stops US Fish & Wildlife Service from Capturing and Killing Wild Red Wolves
The US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on September 29 issued a preliminary injunction that orders the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to stop capturing and killing—and authorizing private landowners to capture and kill—...
EFF Asks Court to Block U.S. From Prosecuting Security Researcher For Detecting and Publishing Computer Vulnerabilities
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a court Thursday for an order that would prevent the government from prosecuting its client, security researcher Matthew Green, for publishing a book about making computer systems more secure.
Indonesia: Close gap between rhetoric and reality on 1965 mass human rights violations
Despite President Joko Widodo’s repeated commitments to address human rights violations committed in 1965 – such as extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and torture – more than five decades later millions of victims and their families are...
Iran: 10-Year Sentence Confirmed for Prominent Rights Defender
Iran’s revolutionary court has confirmed a 10-year prison sentence for a prominent human rights defender. Authorities have held the rights defender, Narges Mohammadi, who suffers from a severe medical ailment, in Evin prison in Tehran since June 2015...
'Take a stand against ageism,' says UN on International Day of Older Persons
The United Nations is marking the International Day of Older Persons by encouraging countries to draw attention to and challenge negative stereotypes and misconceptions about older persons and ageing, and to enable older persons to realize their...
PAKISTAN: Punjab police save teenage Christian from lynching
Masih, resident of Chak 66, Dina Nath Village, Kasur District of Punjab Province, 48 km southwest of Lahore, was friends with a Muslim, Mr. Akhtat Ali. On September 18, Ali, along with his friends Bakht Khan and Saddam opened Nabeel Masih's Facebook...
WORLD: The trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer --- In the latest issue of Torture Magazine
"The evacuations and arrests were just part of a larger Khmer Rouge project of mass social engineering which involved obliterating everything that smacked of capitalism, privatism, and class oppression," writes Alexander Laban Hinton, Founding...
INDONESIA: Government must earnestly address human rights violation in Papua
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned about six Pacific countries raising the subject of human rights violations in Papua in the General Debate of the Assembly's 71st Session, on 26 September 2016. The video can be accessed here.
