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Mar 5 2014 3:43AM
[CHRB] (2/14-27/2014) Police Beat Former Masanjia Labor Camp Detainees, Uyghur Scholar Arrested

China Human Rights Briefing February 21-27, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Activists Detained Outside Hospital Where Cao Shunli Is in Critical Condition Uyghur Scholar Arrested on Concocted “Splittism” Charge Liu Xia Hospitalized...

Mar 3 2014 2:03PM
Missing in Ukraine - Urgent help required.

A version of the story below was published by the Sunday Mail in Scotland yesterday. It's about Oleksey Suprun who has been missing in Kiev for over two weeks now. Indeed, hundreds of people have gone missing in Ukraine recently...

Mar 2 2014 2:59PM
2013 Human Rights report on Indigenous people of Bangladesh

The 2013 Human Rights Report on Indigenous people of Bangladesh has been published by the Kapaeeng Foundation, with the support of Oxfam and the European Union. The report shows that, in 2013, the number of incidents of human rights...

Feb 28 2014 7:41PM
The anti-gay law: Uganda's shame

‘the homosexuals have lost the argument in Uganda. They should rehabilitate themselves and society should assist them to do so.’ President Museveni At the start of this week Uganda’s President heralded a new low for lesbian, gay...

Feb 25 2014 2:21PM
Everyday people but not everyday abuses

Sometimes a case comes along that stops you in your tracks. This happened when I read about the forced sterilisation of indigenous women in Peru. Last month the Public Prosecutor’s office closed the case of thousands of Indigenous...