Human rights group says Egyptian army tortured protesters
Los Angeles Times
CAIRO -- Human Rights Watch has accused the Egyptian military of beating and torturing protesters detained during violent demonstrations earlier this month outside the Defense Ministry here. "The brutal beating of both men and women protesters shows ...
Rights group accuses Egypt's military of torture San Francisco Chronicle
Human Rights Watch slams Egypt's military over use of torture on protesters GlobalPost
Human Rights Watch accuses Egyptian military of torture, beatings Al-Arabiya

UN Human Rights Chief Jets in
AllAfrica.com
By Obert Chifamba, 21 May 2012 Harare " UNITED Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Navanethem Pillay arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday for a five-day visit to assess the human rights situation in the country. Ms Pillay, a former South African ...
UN human rights chief visits Zimbabwe; President's party says 'we have nothing ... Washington Post
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay in first Zimbabwe visit BBC News

Chinese human rights activist Chen arrives in US
CNN
Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng arrived Saturday evening in the United States, bringing an end to a diplomatic firestorm that erupted after he escaped from house arrest and took to YouTube to complain about abuse he said his family ...
Chinese Human Rights Activist Thanks US BusinessWeek
Chinese Human Rights Activist Chen Lands at Newark Airport Bloomberg
China blocks human rights lawyers from defending nephew of blind activist Chen Fox News

Human Rights Expert Parul Sharma to Join Stora Enso
MarketWatch (press release)
HELSINKI, Finland, May 21, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- One of the top corporate social responsibility experts in the Nordic countries specialising in human rights issues, Parul Sharma, will join Stora Enso as Vice President, ...
Stora Enso appoint vice president of global responsibility FoodProductionDaily.com

Rights group suspects Israeli troops stood by while settlers fired on ...
Washington Post
JERUSALEM " An Israeli human rights group has released a video that suggests Israeli soldiers stood by while Jewish settlers opened fire on Palestinians in the West Bank, wounding one. The B'tselem group says settlers from Yitzhar descended over the ...
Israel human rights group questions troops The Australian
Group: Palestinian shot as Israeli troops stood by Atlanta Journal Constitution
Rights Group Video Shows Settler Violence Forward

Will the human rights court throw Britain a lifeline on prisoner votes?
The Guardian
Will the European court of human rights throw Britain a lifeline tomorrow? The court's grand chamber will decide whether laws that prevent a murderer from voting amount to a breach of his human rights. The killer in question is not John Hirst, ...

Human rights progress
China Daily
By Liu Jie (China Daily) In the recently issued "Human Rights and Democracy: the 2011 Foreign and Commonwealth Report", the United Kingdom once again accused China of the "use of unlawful and arbitrary measures to target activists" and other activities ...
UK criticism on China's human rights runs counter to facts People's Daily Online

Strong Stand Taken By the African Court On Human and Peoples' Rights On the ...
AllAfrica.com
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations welcome the strong stand taken by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) on the political, security and humanitarian confllicts and crises raging on ...

PNoy fails in human rights vow: HRW
ABS CBN News
MANILA - Philippine President Benigno Aquino has failed to deliver on campaign pledges to prosecute members of the security forces implicated in killings and disappearances, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The New York-based rights monitor said it had ...
Aquino fails to curb rights abuses " Human Rights Watch Inquirer.net (blog)
Philippines: UN Rights Body to Assess Manila's Record Human Rights Watch
Rights groups to file complaint vs Aquino administration Bulatlat (blog)
Asian Correspondent

Bahrain: Human Rights Body Should Target Repression
Human Rights Watch
The UPR should focus on Bahrain's routine suppression of basic political rights like freedom of association as well as the grave human rights violations committed in the brutal 2011crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.
Bahrain: Human Rights Body Should Target Repression, Says HRW Eurasia Review
Whose human rights? Gulf Daily News
Lawyer: Jailed Bahrain activist granted bail Kansas City Star
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