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Jun 11 2014 6:09PM
[CHRB] Nearly 100 Detained, Restricted in Movement Around 25th Tiananmen Anniversary (5/30-6/5/2014)

[CHRB] Nearly 100 Detained, Restricted in Movement Around 25th Tiananmen Anniversary (5/30-6/5/2014) China Human Rights Briefing May 30 – June 5, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Harshest 6/4 Anniversary Yet: More Than 40 Criminal...

Jun 11 2014 5:42PM
Tiananmen Square: The wound that remains unhealed

Press Release issued by Chinese Uyghur & Tibetan Solidarity UK [3 June 2014] On the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Chinese Uyghur & Tibetan Solidarity UK calls on the Chinese government to end its censorship of the...

Jun 11 2014 4:39PM
Nabeel Rajab: "Your work has given me hope"

I am Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR). I have just been released from prison after serving a two-year sentence for my peaceful and legitimate...

Jun 10 2014 6:18PM
Teenage Victims of Rape Denied Justice

Discriminatory provisions in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian law are failing to protect women and girl survivors of sexual violence, routinely denying them justice. Shockingly, teenage girls in Algeria and Tunisia can find themselves...

Jun 10 2014 2:13PM
Stopping sexual violence - it's time to act. Time to deliver.

Much has been written about violence against women over the last few weeks. More than 200 girls kidnapped in north eastern Nigeria by the Boko Haram. Meriam Ibrahim sentenced to death for apostasy and adultery in Sudan. Two girls gang...