The article "Humanising the Border Security Force" (March 8) drives home the point that all good actions of a force can get nullified with one wrong move....
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza's male hairdressers have filed a complaint with a human rights group over a Hamas edict banning them from cutting women's hair. Gaza's Islamic militant rulers announced the ban last week. It affects only five coiffeurs but highlights Hamas'...
Tom Porteous, the director of Human Rights Watch London, wrote to the Guardian last week to claim that "Blessing-Miles Tendi blames EU targeted sanctions against Mugabe and his cronies for the failure of last year's power-sharing deal to bring about the hoped-for...
By Ian Hunter, National PostMarch 9, 2010 12:00 AM The Mohawk elders of Kahnawake, Que., have served eviction notices on non-native residents who live on their reserve. Meanwhile, the QuebecHuman Rights Commission has evicted a mid-60s woman with a bum shoulder from...
BOSTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of Burmese refugees are being forced into makeshift camps in Bangladesh and face widespread starvation unless they receive more humanitarian aid, according to an international human rights organization's report released Tuesday. The...
Victory: Rapper Snoop Dogg can now apply for a visa to travel to the UK Rapper Snoop Dogg has humiliated ministers by winning a three-year legal battle to overturn a ban on him entering the U.K. In an embarrassing defeat for the Home Office, the American hip hop star...
(Beirut) - The Lebanese government should investigate the seizure of a human rights lawyer's passport by General Security, a group of 16 Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today. General Security withheld the British passport for the lawyer,...
The Swiss have done the right thing at the referendum. Animal rights are fine, but to call for lawyers to represent them in court is silly. Think, for a moment, what would happen if such a legislation is enacted in India. We are a litigious people and...