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'If the rule of law, the protection of human rights, and justice for victims and survivors of the recent spate of violence are to be ensured, the Tanzanian Government must establish and explain what...

Fiji's Interim Prime Minister, in a first reaction to the judgment which ruled that the government which took over after the May coup was illegal, has suggested that a different 'standard of human...

'The USA is engaged in a cruel, brutalizing, unreliable, unnecessary and hugely expensive activity for no measurable gain,' Amnesty International said. 'The fact that it is violating human rights...

'This verdict is a significant step for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's human rights - sexual enslavement in armed conflict is now legally acknowledged as a crime against...

The official Xinhua news agency reported that the right to form or join trade unions of one's choice would be subject to existing Chinese labour laws. 'The spotlight must now be on the impact of the...

Over the years, thousands of detainees in Egypt have been subjected to {torture and ill-treatment}. The most common forms of torture reported to Amnesty International and other human rights...

Speaking at a press conference in Paris today, in response to the findings of the joint Commission of Inquiry set up by United Nations and the Organization of African Unity into systematic human...

Article 209 states: 'A man over 19 years of age who engages in same-sex lewdness with a person who has attained the age of 14 but not yet the age of 18 shall be punished with imprisonment from six...

Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez were found guilty of criminal responsibility in the systematic persecution of Bosnian Muslim civilians in the Lasva valley and elsewhere in central Bosnia between...

Amnesty International, which has documented human rights violations in Northern Ireland and made recommendations to prevent them for 30 years, urges the Commission to seize the opportunity to draft a...