7 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: Many European companies that publicly embrace workers’ rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers’ rights in their US operations. Read

2 September 10 - From FIDH: Cambodians have faced increasingly severe restrictions on their freedom of expression since 2008, according to a new report by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Read

2 September 10 - From Der Spiegel: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, 57, discusses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike against his country. Read

1 September 10 - From UN News: The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has expressed deep concern after the apparent abduction of a human rights defender who had spoken out against alleged rights violations by members of the country’s (...) Read

25 August 10 - From Amnesty International: The Yemeni authorities must stop sacrificing human rights in the name of security as they confront threats from al-Qa’ida, Zaidi Shi’a rebels in the north, and address growing demands for secession in the (...) Read

24 August 10 - From the Associated Press: The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America’s human rights record is less than perfect but stressed that the U.S. political system has built-in safeguards that promote improvements. Read

17 August 10 - From the Guardian: The new UK government has made it clear that an important priority of its foreign policy will be to promote British trade and investment abroad. But recent remarks in Sudan by the Africa minister, Henry Bellingham, raise concerns that, by blindly pursuing commercial (...) Read

13 August 10 - From the Los Angeles Times: The US gives about $1 billion annually to Ethiopia. But even as US and other international aid has surged in the last decade, activists charge that the government has become more authoritarian. Read

13 August 10 - Swiss clothing companies do not pay seamstresses in Asia enough to live on, according to organisers of a new campaign. Read

10 August 10 - From VOA News: The Executive Director of Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) said his organization will pressure the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to address what he says are the killings and inhumane treatment of human rights (...) Read