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Syrian opposition defends the use of simple animations to persuade rebels to end human rights abuses

In 1994, President Bill Clinton declared May 11 Vietnam Human Rights Day in the hope it would ease political, civil, and religious repression in Vietnam. Nearly two decades later, the rights picture remains grim.

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THE first Australian charged under anti-terrorist laws has issued a how-to list on Facebook for how young men can engage in holy war without getting killed or ending up in Guantanamo Bay.

Two ways to get out of solitary at Pelican Bay.

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US and South Korean intelligence agencies are sitting on a huge archive recording torture, starvation and gross human rights abuses in North Korea.

Serious human rights violations and denial of fundamental freedoms in Equatorial Guinea are casting a shadow over campaigning ahead of the 26 May, 2013 legislative elections.

THE UN Human Rights Council has named former Australian judge Michael Kirby to steer a landmark probe of abuses in North Korea, which refuses to co-operate with the world body's investigators.

(Washington) – International telecommunications companies risk being linked to human rights abuses if they enter the Burmese market before adequate protections are in place, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

Despite harsh words from the United States and European Union about Kazakstan’s worsening human rights record, the country’s leaders are unlikely to modify their behaviour, local analys

Human Rights Watch has verified that the horrific footage of a rebel commander mutilating a soldier's corpse and eating an organ was real and identified the rebel commander Abu Sakkar as the man perpetrating the horror.

Syrian residents found themselves without the internet for some 19 hours on May 7 and 8, in what many see as a long-term government campaign to use the internet as method of state control.According to…...

GENERAL JOSÉ EFRAÍN RÍOS MONTT, a former Guatemalan dictator, became the first person ever to be convicted of genocide in a court of his own country on May 10th....

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In a pitch to voters who have switched to the UK Independence Party, the Government will announce plans to stop people - like Hasham Ali, pictured - using the right to 'family life' to avoid deportation.

The Pattani rebellion has been raging in Thailand for years -- but what drives these militants?