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Saudi Arabia

Human rights VS business interests: Merkel's tricky talks in Saudi Arabia

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves Saudi Arabia after a delicate balancing act of talks on economic relations and human rights.

01/05/2017

USA

'The US has long supported international justice, now it should be subjected to it'

They call him the “dictator hunter”.

27/04/2017

World News

What choices for European women seeking gender equality?

Efforts to end discrimination that affects half of the European population have fallen through in a European Union dedicated to economic harmonisation.

24/04/2017

Turkey

Calls to free Italian writer Gabriele Del Grande held in Turkey

A demonstration has been held in Rome for the release of an Italian journalist and human rights activist arrested in detained in Turkey.

23/04/2017

Venezuela

Desperate Venezuelans flee to Brazil, straining border town

As the economic and political turmoil deepens in Venezuela, more and more people are fleeing the country and heading to Brazil.

21/04/2017

Syria

Bus bomb attack on Aleppo civilians "likely a war crime", UN says

A bomb attack on a bus convoy crowded with civilians fleeing the embattled city of Aleppo in Syria “likely amounts to a war crime”, according to the UN.

19/04/2017

India

Tensions high in Kashmir after video shows Indian army using a human shield

Clashes and ethnic tensions may intensify in Kashmir after a video surfaces allegedly showing the Indian army using a Kashmiri man as a human shield.

17/04/2017

Syria

More than 60 children among 126 killed in Syria bus bombing

The death toll from Saturday’s bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached 126 – at least 68 of them children – according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human…

17/04/2017

World

"Las invasiones": where displaced Colombians live

In a neighborhood called ‘Centenario’, located in the outskirts of Puerto Asis, in the Colombian department of Putumayo is a district dubbed “Las invasiones” (literally “the invasions”), it is an info

11/04/2017

World News

"Detention centres" for LGBT citizens reported in Chechnya

According to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Chechen authorities have set up a series of camps or prisons where gay men have been killed or tortured before being made to leave the…

11/04/2017

Gambia

Gambian migrants return home after Libyan prison ordeal

The International Organisation of Migration and the Gambian government helped to win the release of some 170 people

05/04/2017

Syria

International outrage at Syria 'gas attack'

The White House said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was alarmed at reports of a suspected Syrian government chemical attack that has left dozens of people…

04/04/2017

Cinema

Geneva Film Festival celebrates human rights

As the awards season comes to an end, a film festival in Geneva has turned the spotlight on human rights abuses.

29/03/2017

Cinema

Human rights film festival - winners

Coming at the end of the awards season the fifteenth International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, held as usual in Geneva has chosen its winners.

21/03/2017

No Comment

Thousands displaced as police flatten Nigeria slum

Residents of a Nigerian shantytown on Saturday (18 March) spoke of “losing hope”, a day after security forces used gunfire and tear gas to make way for demolitions in defiance of a recent court order,

19/03/2017

Turkey

UN accuses Turkey of 'serious' human rights violations against its Kurdish south-east region

The United Nations has accused Turkey of ‘serious’ human rights violations during operations against Kurdish separatists in the south-east of the country.

10/03/2017

Turkey

Euroviews. Human rights in Turkey: the urgent need for a new beginning

Today, over 150 journalists are incarcerated – many without an indictment, dozens have fled into exile and more than 150 media outlets have been shut down without judicial proceedings.

10/03/2017

Hungary

MSF staff in Serbia detail Hungary police 'abuse' of migrants

The humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) – also known as Doctors Without Borders – has given more details after alleging that Hungarian border police have been systematically abusi

09/03/2017

Hungary

Hungary slammed for tough new anti-migrant measures

The UN criticises Hungary for new migration measures which will force all asylum seekers into detention camps

08/03/2017

World News

Norway: appeals court rules Breivik's human rights not violated

An Oslo appeals court rejects claims that prison authorities are treating mass murderer Anders Breivik inhumanely.

01/03/2017