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Uzbekistan must halt its routine use of torture and cease reprisals against human rights campaigners who expose state abuses, United Nations monitors said Friday.

• 24 ноября 2013, 19:50

Britain's David Cameron put Sri Lanka on notice Saturday to address allegations of war crimes within months or else he would lead a push for action at the UN.

• 17 ноября 2013, 17:38

The attorney general Berik Imashev discussed human trafficking issues with the Charge d'affaires of the United States, John Ordway.

• 02 ноября 2013, 00:18

The head of a UN inquiry into North Korea rights abuses told Tuesday how he had been reduced to tears by witness accounts of people who fled the hardline state.

• 30 октября 2013, 12:24

A US government commission said Thursday that China's human rights record has not improved under the country's new leadership and raised concerns on issues from minority rights to forced abortion.

• 12 октября 2013, 10:02

Council of Europe chief Thorbjoern Jagland has distanced himself from a controversial resolution of the pan-European human rights body that calls for regulation of circumcision practices.

• 10 октября 2013, 16:00

Israel labelled as "racist" and "anti-religious" Friday a resolution of the pan-European human rights body calling for regulation of circumcision practices.

• 06 октября 2013, 20:19

Not all reports of international human rights organizations, including reports for foreign governments, are true to the facts: Erlan Idrissov.

• 19 сентября 2013, 13:10

Venezuela withdrew from a regional human rights court on Tuesday, fulfilling the wishes of late president Hugo Chavez to the dismay of activists who fear the state may commit abuses.

• 12 сентября 2013, 10:33

The head of a UN inquiry into human rights in North Korea appealed on Tuesday for access to the country, even as Pyongyang condemned his commission's work as slanderous and provocative.

• 28 августа 2013, 10:55

The head of a UN inquiry into human rights in North Korea challenged Pyongyang on Monday to back its allegation that testimony gathered by his commission in Seoul amounted to "slander"

• 26 августа 2013, 10:31

The United States again faces the unpalatable policy dilemma that has shaped decades of relations with Egypt.

• 22 августа 2013, 14:07

Ablyazov has been arrested in the south of France near Cannes by French special forces today.

• 31 июля 2013, 23:50

US President Barack Obama on Thursday called on Vietnam's leader to improve on human rights but the former enemy nations pledged to work together on trade and tensions with China.

• 26 июля 2013, 14:59

The force-feeding of hunger striking inmates at the US prison in Guantanamo clearly violates medical ethics and international law.

• 25 июля 2013, 18:29

Vietnam's president on Wednesday starts a rare visit to Washington to boost trade and security ties between the former war foes, but activists urged the United States to press him on human rights.

• 25 июля 2013, 12:01

Long-range weapons and tank attacks are being used in the worsening siege of the Syrian city of Homs.

• 13 июля 2013, 20:20

Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr is being remembered in a Washington, D.C. exhibition held to tie-in with the 50th anniversary of his famous march on the US capital.

• 04 июля 2013, 16:04

Human rights monitors and North Korean defector groups voiced anger and concern Thursday over the forced repatriation to Pyongyang of nine young refugees captured in Laos.

• 30 мая 2013, 11:01

The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants.

• 24 мая 2013, 10:32