10 September 10 - From the Christian Science Monitor: Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng was freed Thursday after four years in jail, to find the Chinese civil rights movement he helped pioneer weak, but lawyers still in the fight. Read

10 September 10 - From InfoSud/News agencies: Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger’s appearance in Geneva for the Annual Global Strategic Review conference (Sept. 10-12) has sparked controversy by those who think he should be brought before an international court on war crimes charges for his (...) Read

10 September 10 - The fall of one of Iran’s top prosecutors is the latest move in a prison abuse case that has caused shock waves through the system. Read

9 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in North Kivu province in late August. Read

9 September 10 - From BBC News: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad caused anger in 2006. Read

9 September 10 - After weeks of rumors sparked by the leak of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has officially released its report on the surge in farmland purchases and leasing which have elicited controversy for over two (...) Read

8 September 10 - From InfoSud: Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Tuesday (September 8), the first US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, said a major US priority for the September Council session will be to raise the profile of freedom of association as a fundamental human (...) Read

8 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: George Soros, philanthropist and financier, today announced a challenge grant of $100 million over 10 years to Human Rights Watch. Read

8 September 10 - Across Pakistan there are still marooned villages like Reikhbaghwala, a few kilometres from the overflowing River Indus in Punjab Province, where no assistance has been received in over a month. Read

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