By EnviroEditor, on September 5th, 2010%
Bahraini authorities should immediately look into allegations of torture by four opposition activists who had been held in incommunicado detention for more than two weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. In their formal interrogation sessions with prosecutors, the four contended that their captors had subjected them to torture and degrading treatment.
Attorney General Ali
Read More… Bahrain: Pursue Torture Allegations
By EnviroEditor, on September 4th, 2010%
Iran’s Judiciary should ensure that human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari receives a fair trial, Human Rights Watch said today, including full access to a lawyer, adequate time to prepare her defense, and the ability to challenge evidence presented against her. The Judiciary should also release her from pre-trial detention, where she is being
Read More… Iran: Release Rights Activist; Guarantee a Fair Trial
By EnviroEditor, on September 4th, 2010%
Human Rights First welcomes the efforts of more than 20 religious congregations in Gainesville, Fla. to unite in hosting a series of events to affirm religious solidarity and tolerance as a small congregation plans to burn the Holy Koran in their community on Sept. 11. The group also called on state leaders – from
Read More… Human Rights First Lauds Interfaith Efforts to Display Tolerance, Not Bigotry
By EnviroEditor, on September 3rd, 2010%
Four international human rights organizations urged the Cambodian government to immediately release Leang Sokchouen, staff person of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), who was sentenced to prison on disinformation charges on August 30, 2010. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and
Read More… Cambodia: International Groups Condemn Sentencing of Local Rights Staffer
By EnviroEditor, on September 3rd, 2010%
Human Rights First will present its 2010 Human Rights Award to a renowned Hungarian advocate for the rights of the Roma people in Europe and a Ugandan activist on the front lines of defeating a draconian anti-homosexuality bill there. The group will honor this year’s recipients, Julius Kaggwa and Viktória Mohácsi, at its annual
Read More… Human Rights Defenders Combating Discrimination to Receive 2010 Honors
By EnviroEditor, on September 3rd, 2010%
Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963
This past Saturday in Washington, DC, two groups of Americans gathered on the National Mall to express their vision
Read More… Is America Marching in Two Different Directions?
By EnviroEditor, on September 2nd, 2010%
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBT equality – today applauded the change in the Omaha World Herald’s wedding announcement policy. OWH will now include same-sex wedding announcements in its “Celebrations” section if the weddings are legal unions. The change came after Jeff Wilke, an Omaha father,
Read More… A Father’s Love Wins Out
By EnviroEditor, on August 31st, 2010%
The NAACP is deeply disappointed in the decision by a Georgia federal district judge who ruled that death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis did not prove his innocence in an evidentiary hearing held earlier this summer.
The United States Supreme Court in August 2009, ordered a federal judge in Georgia to grant Davis an
Read More… NAACP Deeply Disappointed in Ruling in the Evidentiary Hearing of Troy Davis
By EnviroEditor, on August 30th, 2010%
In light of the stabbing of a New York City cabdriver currently being investigated as an anti-Muslim hate crime, Human Rights First and Muslim Advocates made the following statement:
The fundamental right to practice the religion of one’s choosing is a bedrock principle of American democracy. A knife attack on an unarmed city cab driver
Read More… Human Rights First and Muslim Advocates Call for Protection of Muslims Amid Growing Social Tensions
By EnviroEditor, on August 29th, 2010%
Russia should put an end to local rules forcing women in Chechnya to observe an Islamic dress code, Human Rights Watch said today.
Since the start of Ramadan in mid-August, Human Rights Watch has received numerous reports from Chechnya about women being harassed in the streets of Grozny, the republic’s capital, for not covering
Read More… Russia: Stop Forced Dress Code for Women in Chechnya