Sources: Global Post
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. 2024-09-1
The European Court of Human Rights unanimously finds Russia guilty of systematic violations of human rights in the Crimean peninsula. 2024-06-25
A Colombian court in Bogota grants conditional release to former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso. He was held at La Picota prison while being accused of war crimes and human rights violations. 2024-05-10
U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will remove Gabon, Niger, Uganda and the Central African Republic from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade program, because of "gross violations" of human rights and rampant political corruption, effective January 1, 2024. 2023-10-30
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
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem launches a campaign calling on soldiers to refuse orders at the border. 2018-04-4
Human rights activists, lawyers, labor rights groups and other advocates endorse Leni Robredo for vice president. 2016-04-23
Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years imprisonment and 300 lashes in Saudi Arabia. 2013-01-15
China releases an annual report on human rights, criticizing the United States' human rights record, citing the arrest of Occupy Wall Street protesters and Internet restrictions. 2012-05-26
The latest ASEAN summit begins in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. 2012-04-3