Tag: human rights
A royal pardon frees a Thai woman serving a 43-year prison term for defaming the monarchy
BANGKOK (AP) â A woman in Thailand sentenced to a prison term of more than four decades on…
Female political prisoners in Belarus face abuse, humiliation and threats of losing parental rights
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) â Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political…
Hundreds of UK business leaders demand action on Israel
London, United Kingdom â Hundreds of business leaders in the United Kingdom â including a former adviser to…
US says human rights have âworsenedâ in UK in past year
The Trump administration has published a report claiming that human rights in the United Kingdom âworsenedâ over the…
South Africa dismisses U.S. human rights report as ‘deeply flawed’
JOHANNESBURG (AP) â The South African government on Wednesday dismissed the U.S. State Departmentâs latest assessment of the…
New human rights reports scale back criticism of El Salvador, but fault U.K.
The State Department on Tuesday released a long-awaited series of reports on worldwide human rights practices that reveal…
US report says India acts minimally, Pakistan rarely acts against rights abuses
By Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government noted abuses in India and Pakistan in a shortened human rights…
US denounces Europe on speech in pared-down rights report
The United States on Tuesday alleged that human rights were worsening in Western Europe due to internet regulations,…
Trump administration to scale back annual human rights reports
WASHINGTON â The Trump administration is scaling back the State Departmentâs annual Human Rights Report and placing a…