UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo on Wednesday urged the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan to end violence against women and to...
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos on Monday urged all parties involved in the Syrian conflict to take measures to avoid killing civilians. She stressed that failure to take precautions to distinguish...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respect international standards of due process during the...
An anti-terrorism court judge in Pakistan ruled Tuesday that a report compiled by a nine-member judiciary committee, which includes statements of the witnesses in India, could not be used in cases related to the 2008 Mumai terror attacks [BBC...
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Monday that turnover from transnational organized criminal networks is estimated to be around $870 billion a year . With the statement, the UNODC launched its global awareness-raising...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged member states to consider proposals to strengthen the world's human rights treaty body system. At an informal meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, Pillay...
An Omani court on Monday sentenced six human rights activists to between 12 and 18 months in prison for social media posts that were deemed to be slander against the country's ruler, a defense lawyer said on Tuesday. Badr...
The Constitutional Court of Hungary on Monday ruled that a new law lowering the mandatory retirement age for the country's judges is unconstitutional. The court held that the new law, which...
Hungarian authorities on Monday announced plans to investigate into whether a former Nazi resides in the country's capital amid demands by various rights groups to prosecute the war criminal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human...
A political activist of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday was deported to Thailand after a two-month detention. Ahmed Abdul Khaleq has called for the rights of the stateless people in...
