... Nobel peace laureate, said the world has shied away from criticizing the North's human rights because of fear of its nuclear weapons."The international community ... the overthrow its government. Harsh criticism of the North's human rights by U.S. lawmakers has often stood in stark contrast ... .N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights to insist on visiting the North. The report also urged the ...

ChavezVenezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez comes under fire in a new report issued by Human Rights Watch which details scores ... ago, when Chavez took power, the new constitution could have been used to increase human rights. Instead, it says, things went in the opposite direction as he sought ... limiting workers' ability to associate and blockades hampering the work of human rights activists.The government ...

The couple's non-profit organisation the Jolie-Pitt Foundation has given the generous sum to the Human Rights Watch's work in Burma and Zimbabwe.Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, welcomed the donation, saying: "Burma and Zimbabwe are two of the most repressive countries in the world and we need to increase international pressure on them to change.

... the only ones…ahemm women…HRW press release: The Saudi government should end its systematic discrimination against its Ismaili religious minority, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch called upon the government to set up a national institution empowered to recommend remedies for discriminatory policies and responding to individual ...

... . Read more about the B'nai Brith attack below:Rights bodies vulnerable to 'political Islam': B'nai ... -inflicted harm."Free speech is "the media's favourite human right," the report reads, and "those who advocate freedom of expression often ... deeply critical, but fundamentally supportive."Our overall conclusion is that condemnation of human rights law's jurisdiction over hate has become surrogate for ...

... ," said Krista Daley, director and CEO of the Nova Scotia Human Right Commission. "We strongly encourage Nova Scotians to make ... Levant should be nominated, considering how much he suffered for his freedom to speech, the ultimate "human right" ( I don't believe that rights exist, as such, but I'll get into that much, much later ), considering as how it's a direct extention of our freedom of thought.