The Rafto Prize, a Norwegian human rights award, was awarded to Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey on Thursday for his campaigning on behalf of victims of climate change and environmental damage.

Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, a winner of the Sakharov human rights prize who challenged the island's communist regime for decades, died on Sunday in a car accident, the government and a priest said.

There is no law above the dignity of a human being. Human rights must be taken care of whatever the processes and procedures involved. It is equally, or even more important to respect a person who is

Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted men, is having to move nearly every day as hunters close in on the African guerrilla leader who may now be in Darfur, a top UN envoy said on Friday.

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A day after a UN Special Rapporteur urged the Indian government to repeal the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in force in troubled areas of the country, Union Home Minister P. Ch

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday said that his country has a rich and proud record of safeguarding human rights.

Addressing a public gathering in the central town of Balangoda, Raj

A woman from Guntur approached the SHRC complaining against doctors of Guntur General Hospital.
G. Jayalakshmi, 30, from Aparajipally of Gudur mandal in Warangal district, complained on Saturday that

Over 400 Kyrgyz prisoners stitched up their mouths on Tuesday as part of a nationwide hunger strike that has spread throughout the country's pre-trial detention facilities, Kyrgyz human rights ombudsm

More than 3,000 people have been killed in Syria since popular protests broke out in mid-March, the UN human rights chief said Friday, urging international action to prevent civil war in the country.

Even as the Jayalalithaa government continued to slap more cases and invoke the Goondas’ Act against a few prominent DMK functionaries, DMK leader M.K. Stalin on Friday said the ‘false’ land-grab case