Sources: Global Post
Lawyers and human rights organisations in Israel receive dozens of complaints from Palestinian workers and students who have been suspended from schools, universities and workplaces over social media posts or conversations with colleagues. 2023-10-15
The Moscow City Court orders the closure of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Russia's oldest human rights organization. 2023-01-25
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
According to the human rights organization Amnesty International, casualties are estimated to be around 106 protestors and rising. 2019-11-20
North Korea says that it will respond "very strongly" to a conference held in Washington, D.C. about human rights abuses. 2015-02-17
Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years imprisonment and 300 lashes in Saudi Arabia. 2013-01-15
ASEAN nations ask China to begin talks over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. 2012-11-18
The United Nations Human Rights Council orders an investigation into alleged human rights violations by the Government of Syria in the 2011 Syrian uprising. 2011-08-23
Defense chiefs from ASEAN countries agree on information sharing at a conference in Indonesia. 2011-03-31
The trial of eight police officers charged with the murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2010-11-12