Human Rights News

Human Rights News

Here is a preview of human rights related news compiled from a non exhaustive selection of various news sources originating from a number of organisations, national and international, working in the field. This information is updated twice a day.

US: Policy Recommendations on Counterterrorism

Human Rights Watch - 4 hours 54 min ago

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email On May 23, 2013, US President Barack Obama will give a speech at the National Defense University on counterterrorism policy....

FIDH 2012 Annual Report

FIDH - Human Rights for All - 8 hours 40 min ago

- Annual Report / Reports, Annual Reports

Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013 Begins In Brazil

WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - 9 hours 28 min ago

Over 240 delegates from 37 countries are coming together in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil, to exchange experiences and debate options for developing sustainable national school feeding programmes in the...

Fears for safety of human rights lawyer abducted in Syria

Amnesty International - 10 hours 5 min ago

Headline Title:  Fears for safety of human rights lawyer in Syria 21 May 2013...

Afghanistan - Radio station technician and host murdered in Kapisa Valley

Reporters without border - 10 hours 11 min ago

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, a 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab in the northeastern Kapisa Valley, was found near his home...

Uganda - Police raids on two Kampala newspapers

Reporters without border - 10 hours 22 min ago

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by raids, on Monday (May 20), by police on two Kampala-based newspapers, the forced closure of their printing presses and the closure of two radio stations....

Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ amid ‘disturbing’ rise in executions

Amnesty International - 10 hours 23 min ago

Headline Title:  Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ 21 May 2013...

Haïti - Motive not yet known in radio journalist's fatal shooting

Reporters without border - 10 hours 58 min ago

Reporters Without Borders hopes that the reason will soon be known for radio journalist Pierre-Richard Alexandre's fatal shooting by an individual identified as Baudelaire Augustin in Saint-Marc,...

Solvable Problem

WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - 11 hours 9 min ago

Whenever I have the privilege of spending time among the people that the World Food Programme (WFP) serves, I come away enriched with precious extra knowledge and inspired by the new ways in which...

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