Sources: Reuters via MSNBC
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her support of feminism and human rights. 2023-10-6
Saudi Arabia releases two women's rights activists, Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, after they completed and served their sentences. Both women were detained in July 2018 along with a dozen other activists. Human rights group welcome the release, with Human Rights Watch praising the women's activism. 2021-06-27
Australia's Special Broadcasting Service suspends China Global Television Network and China Central Television from broadcasting in the country following a human rights complaint from pan-Asian human rights organization Safeguard Defenders. 2021-03-5
The government orders an inquiry into the killing of 43 civilians in two villages in Mopti. Human rights groups accused the Malian Armed Forces of being responsible for the killings, in a volatile part of the country that has seen a resurgence of insurgent attacks. 2020-06-8
The Israeli High Court rules the protests to be a state of war and that human rights are therefore not applicable. 2018-05-3
Human rights activists, lawyers, labor rights groups and other advocates endorse Leni Robredo for vice president. 2016-04-23
The United States imposes sanctions on 18 "Magnitsky list" Russians accused of human rights violations. Russia threatens to retaliate. 2013-04-12
Russia announces a tit-for-tat visa bar on Americans guilty of human rights violations, over the US Magnitsky bill. 2012-12-7
Syrian human rights activist and government critic Haitham al-Maleh is released from prison as part of an amnesty for those convicted of minor crimes and those aged over 70. 2011-03-8
20 people are reported arrested in China over imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo's 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award. Liu's wife's whereabouts remain unknown after she was taken away by police with human rights group Freedom Now claiming she is in de facto house arrest. 2010-10-10