Human Rights

Raids free enslaved migrants/refugees in Yemen

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Migrants in Haradh, among the 100,000 arriving in Yemen every year.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe condemns attack on Kosovo public broadcaster editor in chief

Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE media freedom representative, condemned today the attack on Mufail Limani, the editor in chief of the public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK).

Prospects for Rakhine reconciliation dim

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A Rohingya village in October 2012.

SRI LANKA: On your knees ladies and gentlemen, on your knees!

Suggesting perhaps that the creative imagination of the cartoonist is catching up with the reality of Sri Lanka the Daily Mirror yesterday carried this cartoon as an illustration for its editorial entitled, A case for best legal brains.

Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security

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Increasing food insecurity.

Center for Constitutional Rights Demands Obama Take Action Available to Him to Close Gitmo: Use Waiver, Transfer 86 Cleared Men, Lift Yemen Repatriations Ban

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the president’s comments about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it and despite the fact that there are a number of the folks who are currently in Guantanamo who the courts have said could be returned to their country of origin or potentially a third country. . . . And so I'm going to -- as I've said before, we're -- examine every option that we have administratively to try to deal with this issue. But ultimately, we're also going to need some help from Congress."

Central African Republic: amid worsening violence, UN refugee agency warns against forcible returns

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People who have fled from the Central African Republic mill in an area of Worobe camp in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Pakistan: Ensure Election Security from Taliban Attacks

Polls May Be Compromised If Candidates, Parties Cannot Campaign

Pakistan’s interim government should take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of candidates and political party activists at risk of attack from the Taliban and other militant groups, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

Social protection measures key in fight against child labour, says new UN report

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ILO report shows why social protection is crucial to tackle child labour.

BURMA: Criminalization of rights defenders and impunity for police

The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns in the strongest terms the announcement of the commander of the Sagaing Region Police Force, Myanmar, that the police will arrest and charge eight human rights defenders whom it blames for inciting protests against the army-backed copper mine project at the Letpadaung Hills, in Monywa. The commission also condemns the latest round of needless police violence against demonstrators there.