Kyrgyzstan detained the prominent Kyrgyz human rights defender, Rita Karasartova without formal charges on Monday. Amnesty International denounced the detention as an 'alarming sign of deepening ...

Streets were silenced, businesses shuttered, and daily life reduced to hurried, masked visits to the grocery store. Such scenes seemed unthinkable, yet they became a reality as governments worldwide ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that the Netherlands violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family ...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch urged the European Union to demand that Bhutanese authorities release dozens of political prisoners held for decades on Tuesday. The detainees have ...

The United Nation's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan deplored the increasing violence in Darfur on Monday, as the war enters its third year. The Fact-Finding Mission called ...