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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 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 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 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  Leave a comment  162, 2010, Human Rights Watch, Issues 160 - 169, Oct 2010, Social & Civil Issues  Cambodia, conviction, disinformation, FIDH, human rights, international law, Leang Sokchouen, LICADHO, OMCT, procedural flaws, sentenced, unfounded, violations of fair trial provisions in Cambodian and international law 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 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 Leave a comment 162, 2010, Issues 160 - 169, National Urban League, Oct 2010, Social & Civil Issues civil rights, Dr. King, equality, Glenn Beck, I have a Dream, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, National Action Network, national urban league, nul, Reclaim the Dream, Rev. Al Sharpton, social justice, unity 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 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 Leave a comment 161, 2010, Issues 160 - 169, NAACP, Sep 2010, Social & Civil Issues admitted in court to lying, another man as the one who killed the officer, death row inmate, evidentiary hearing, execution of an innocent man, Georgia, no physical evidence, Officer MacPhail, police coercion during questioning, put an innocent man to death, Savannah, seven of the nine witnesses who testified against Davis have recanted or contradicted their original testimony, travesty of justice, Troy Anthony Davis, United States Supreme Court, weapon used in the crime was never found, witnesses who had recanted or contradicted their original statements 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 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 |
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