Highlights Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Li Fangping Abducted in Beijing: Around 5 pm local time on April 29, human rights lawyer Li Fangping (李方平) was kidnapped by unidentified individuals outside the offices of the health rights NGO...

I was on my way home from a long weekend in Norfolk yesterday when I took a call about torture. Sorry, enhanced interrogation techniques. Although I’d obviously already heard the shock news about Osama Bin Laden, it was tough to be...

*Posted by Frances* The recent reports on sexual violence in Haiti’s camps; Aftershocks , and the sexual abuse of girls in Nicaragua; Listen to their voices and act , prompted me to review again the Americas overview section in the...

Help stop the bloodshed: sign our petition now When army tanks recently rolled into the city of Dera’a in southern Syria and began shelling residential areas , the human rights crisis in the country reached a new low. More than 511...

Behind the war of words over Iran's Islamist regime – repressing democracy, developing nuclear weapons capability, interfering in local countries from the Lebanon to Iraq and the Gulf – there is a secret revolution going on...