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The wife of Mouctar Diallo, a former employee of the U.S. Embassy, says her husband was arrested by Guinea's ruling junta.
A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained.
A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations.
A Philippine gay rights group is waging a legal battle to be allowed to run in next year's polls after the Elections Commission ruled it cannot register as a political party on grounds that it advocates immorality.
Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president.
Pope Benedict XVI called Wednesday for greater international efforts to ensure basic human rights for children, saying he was praying for all young people who suffer.
Police detained dozens of activists and petitioners in Beijing and elsewhere in China as President Barack Obama arrived on his first state visit to the country, friends, family members and a human rights group said Monday.
Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion limits.
President Barack Obama is pushing China on human rights, telling President Hu Jintao the U.S. believes all men and woman have "certain fundamental rights."
The Philippine president signed a bill criminalizing all forms of torture and prohibiting state authorities from using secret detention centers, her spokesman announced Friday.
ESPN secured the South American broadcast rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics on Thursday in a deal worth about $10 million.
The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.
The ongoing dispute between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities in the country's north threatens to create a "human rights catastrophe" for minority communities in the region, a leading rights watchdog warned in a report Tuesday.
A Russian rights group said Chechen authorities on Thursday abducted a human rights advocate in Moscow who has been critical of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.
Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so.
EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.
From Russia's North Caucasus to the streets of Moscow, those who find themselves at odds with authorities can wind up as targets of deadly violence. So increasingly, some are working quietly or have abandoned their efforts altogether.
Kuwait's highest court ruled Wednesday that women lawmakers are not obliged by law to wear the headscarf, a blow to Muslim fundamentalists who want to fully impose Islamic Sharia law in this small oil-rich state.
A lawyer for Chechnya's strongman president said Tuesday that a criminal libel case carrying possible prison time has been opened against one of Russia's most prominent human rights activists, news agencies reported.
The union representing most of New Hampshire's state workers is suing to regain the right for senior laid-off workers to "bump" junior colleagues out of their jobs.
The Arizona Supreme Court is being asked to overturn budget legislation that repeals a controversial new state law on legal protections for homeowners after foreclosures.
Kuwait's highest court granted women the right to obtain a passport without their husband's approval, the case's lawyer said Wednesday, in the latest stride for women's rights in this small oil-rich emirate.
The Obama administration's point man on civil rights said Wednesday he will seek to fight discrimination against gays, an area in which the Justice Department has had only a small role in the past.
Russian gay rights activists are denouncing the planned closure of Moscow's oldest gay club.
Rainbow flags fluttered above the crowds near the White House as tens of thousands of gay rights supporters rallied to demand that President Barack Obama keep his promises to end discrimination against gays and also let them serve openly in the military.
Alleged Killer of Abortion Doctor Fights for Necessity Defense Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the fatal shooting of a Kansas abortion provider, is fighting prosecutors' attempts to ban the so-called necessity defense at his trial.
God Bless America...where you have the right to remain silent! Tiger Woods accident was reported.
The Times of London reported earlier that the bill has now gone to the parliament and actually has a fairly good chance of becoming law. Here are some of the highlights:
BBC News - Saudi Arabia urged to quash witchcraft death sentenceThe New York-based group Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi Arabia to overturn a death sentence given to a man convicted of practising witchcraft.
A spiritually correct economy requires justice more than charity Justice, not charity, is the only real path to end world hunger and create the needed balance and trust, which are pre-requisites for peace.
The Twenty-Eighth AmendmentWe are told again and again that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims want nothing more than to live in peace.
Landowners along Florida beaches ask Supreme Court to examine taking of private property - washingtonpost.comDESTIN, FLA. -- The sugar-white sand that stretches from Slade and Nancy Lindsay's deck to the clear, green waters of the Gulf of Mexico is some of the finest in the world.
In 1620 Pilgrims left England because they wanted Independence from the Church of England. They came to America. Could Christians start leaving America for Independence? Independence from persecution and scorn?
Free speech: It's the ACLU's deal The American Civil Liberties Union is vilified by conservatives as a left-wing lobby disguised as an advocate for free speech for all. And certainly it's true that many supporters of the organization are liberal in their political views.
So the question here is that does abortion undermine equality between genders. To understand this is to take abortion into other meaning other than a medical one.
BBC News - Charity EveryChild issues warning on separated childrenThe number of children around the world living without any parents or separated from their families has increased to 24 million with a third of them placed in orphanages, a leading British charity dealing with children's rights has warned.
An Abridgement of Constitutional RightsPublic officials need to take seriously their oath to uphold the Constitution. Just as important, the people of the United States, charged with electing these officials to public office, should spend time on this exercise.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
'Liberation was just a big lie' - thestar.comShe sleeps in safe houses, with a rotating squad of bodyguards securing the doors. She goes out only in a billowing burqa. Even her wedding was held in secret.
After two-and-a-half years of exhaustive investigation into more than 100 civil rights-era cold cases, the FBI has announced the next phase of our Cold Case Initiative: we're looking for the next-of-kin in 33 cases to let families know what happened to their loved ones and to p …
U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundryPERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.
Texas marriages in legal limbo due to 2005 error, Democrat saysThe 2005 Texas constitutional amendment banning gay marriage included the language, "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage."
Obama's Gift to OsamaWhoever suggested that Barack Obama is not a Christian? Obama's decision to try those Gitmo prisoners in New York is the perfect gift for Osama bin Laden and just in time for Christmas.
An out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing may be going on with your medical samples which are being submitted to the laboratory…they may be getting sold for a profit, or worse…! This is an issue at the level of the large national "send-out" laboratories, not the local hospital …
On Friday a Sullivan County, Tennessee Judge allowed a 4 year old child to be 'legally kidnapped' by her father! Terri McGee, of Kingsport has been fighting in the Sullivan County Court system for several months to gain custody of her 2 grandchildren from her disabled daughter.
John Galligan, Hasan Defense Attorney, Target Of Wolf Blitzer's Shame CampaignIt goes without saying that when the available facts accrue and weigh so heavily against a defendant, like the alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, one can begin to think of the upcoming trial as something of an afterthought.
In first visit to China, Obama walks a tightrope - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsBefore we bring up human rights in China, we should take care of human rights in America. I live in Maryland,had just had open heart surgery/cancer,my wife on her death bed with COPD.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Decision: Republicans Blast It, ACLU CelebratesNews broke this morning that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees will be tried in federal court in New York.
YouTube - Don't Tase Me Bro !! Minneapolis Officer Tasers Suspect For Throwing Brick At Cop !!!Suspects Hands on Police Car. Tasered Anyway. Rolando Ruiz is tasered by a Minneapolis police officer after being arrested for throwing a brick at a police car.
(VIDEO) More Torture by Taser: Cops Zap Man Offering No Resistance Tasered while Complying Suspect had his hands on the police car. Suspect was offering no resistance. He was tasered to the ground.
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