“A lasting solution to Venezuela’s worsening crisis can only arise following restoration of governance by democratic practices, the rule of law, and respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms,” he further claimed. . President Maduro has repeatedly warned his nation..…
The ICC, and the United Nations Human Rights Council should take this open challenge and ensure that the president and his chief subordinates in the drug war are held to account... ..…
The U.N. gets a new human rights champion . . Michelle Bachelet, the former two-time Chilean president, is making her debut appearance as the U.N. chief’s human rights official at the U.N. ... Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in her office in..…
Earlier August the chairperson of Commission on Human Rights, Chito Gascon, stated that the. ..…
On April 28—prompted by the “increasing number of murders, death threats and attacks against social leaders and human rights defenders”—congressmen Keith Ellison and Georgia’s Hank Johnson penned an urgent letter to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos encouraging “the..…
. © 2017 Reuters President Rodrigo Duterte has unleashed human rights calamity on Philippines in his first office, today. ... President Duterte took office promising to protect human rights, Phelim Kine, Asia director.. ..…
The last round of UN-backed peace talks for Syria came to halt on March 24 over disagreements that emerged about the role of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad Syria's future. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 270,000 people have been killed in the conflict..…
The strikes are supposedly meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. . The Human Rights Watch said in late May 2015 that Saudi warplanes had targeted civilians and residential areas with cluster bombs..…
Human Rights Foundation, organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, has urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party government to reinstate the judges, immediately until proper investigations are carried out.. ..…
Geneva: International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM) organised an event on the subject of human rights supported ... . . . Vienna: Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir has said that world peace was at risk as ... . . . ..…
President Bush can argue, as he has all along, that they are there defense of Iraqis human rights. President Bush says it's time to move on, and we agree - let's move on to the hearings that will get to the bottom of this... ..…
More recently, Chirac angered Blair by inviting Zimbabwean President Robert G. Mugabe to a human rights summit in Paris scheduled for Feb. 19, a day after the expiration of European Union sanctions that ban his travel in Europe. ..…
Rumsfeld's remarks came on the heels of suggestions from some Democrats and Republicans in Congress, as well as former President Jimmy Carter and human rights groups, that the United States close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. ..…
In the early 1990s, President Bill Clinton, concerned about the specter of Islam Africa, secured military alliances with number of African strongmen, among them Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni.1 Since then, human rights groups have accused Museveni, now in his twenty-eighth..…
And yet it began with the hope that Ukraine could one day join European Union, aspiration that for many Ukrainians means something like the rule of law, the absence of fear, the end of corruption, and free markets without intimidation from syndicates controlled by the president.. Eurasian Union,..…
Saudi Arabia wields enormous influence in West not only bonanza of cash that has turned the head of French President Hollande, writes Jonathan Marshall.. Amnesty International also raised questions about the in light of Egyptian regime's appalling human rights record, 400 people..…
It's very difficult to amend Constitution, said Hoch, founder and president of the gay rights group Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.. ..…
Charles Jacobs, President of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, shows where slavery thrives today and why human rights organizations in West are silent about it.. ..…
Human Rights Watch said that President Obama's decision not to veto the bill does enormous damage to the rule of law both in the US and abroad. ..…
Withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. . Refusing to make apologies (contrast President Obama’s apology tours). . ..…
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