Human Rights

The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, ordered the formation of the Higher Permanent Committee for Human Rights, which…

  Myanmar authorities and citizens leapt to the defense of Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday after Amnesty International stripped her…

Human rights activists and members of the House of Representatives welcomed President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi proposal to form a committee…

China’s first “cyber-dissident” Huang Qi is in danger of dying under police custody if he does not receive medical treatment…

Photo caption: Ms. Marisa Matias, Chair of the European Parliament (EP) Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries, sits next to…

Washington (CNN)  ̶  Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said the United States will lose its credibility on human rights if…

  Egypt’s United Nations representative Alaa Youssef rejected the European Union’s (EU) recent allegations of Egypt’s human rights breaches. In…

  Chinese author Yan Lianke, whose works are banned in his heavily censored homeland, has urged world leaders not to…

  The United Nations called Wednesday for urgent action to prevent Nicaragua from descending further into turmoil after months of…

  Kofi Annan left the United Nations far more committed than it had been to combating poverty, promoting equality and…