A highly anticipated visit by human rights commissioner, Navi Pillay, to Zimbabwe could have some welcome consequences, writes Webster Zambara.
Chen Guangcheng — one of China’s best-known human rights icons — was prepared to spend years in the US embassy as he weighed his next move.
Now more than ever civil society organisations need to pull together to ensure that efficient collaboration assists in achieving justice.
While President Zuma delivered his Human Rights Day speech in Soweto, attendees told the M&G that human rights aren’t a reality for many South Africans.
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/ 24 February 2012
The doctrine of "African solutions for African problems" will carry weight only when Africa begins to respect its own institutions.
A confidential report says the Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54-member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance.
United States President Barack Obama delivered a strong message on US concerns over Beijing’s human rights record at a summit on Wednesday.
The government has summoned the Israeli ambassador to demand the release of a SA journalist held after a raid on a ship in Israel on Monday.
Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has lodged a new appeal with the Supreme Court against her house arrest in a final attempt to win freedom.
Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. Humphrey Tyler was the only reporter there when the police opened fire.
Two opposition leaders took potshots at ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema during a special Human Rights Day debate on Tuesday.
Burma’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, keeping her in detention.
The presidency has dismissed suggestions by conservative groups that President Jacob Zuma will change legislation on abortion and same-sex marriages.
Foreign policy realists tell us that the call for a more human rights-weighted foreign policy is naïve.
A rights watchdog urged SA’s new government on Friday to restore the country’s image by putting human rights at the centre of its foreign policy.
South Africa is moving further away from the visions of those who struggled for liberation, Jody Kollapen said on Wednesday.
A rights group on Friday urged Sri Lanka to investigate recent attacks against the media, saying it was disappointed with the government’s stance.
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/ 16 January 2009
A human rights group has denounced what it calls ”deplorable” conditions in Liberia’s prisons and has called for reforms in how they are managed.
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/ 21 December 2008
Iranian police shut down the office of a human rights group headed by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, one of Indonesia’s most widely respected foreign ministers, has died. He was 76.
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/ 10 September 2008
What do Jacob Zuma, lion feeder Mark Scott-Crossley and Linda Mti have in common?
A Cuban group painted a grim picture of the human rights situation in the island nation, saying in a report it was ”very unfavourable”.
As is evident from the number of people who have turned out to support him, many ordinary people believe he deserves a fair hearing.
Mary Robinson, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR), who faulted countries such as the United States, China and Israel for transgressions of humanitarian law and civil liberties, was forced to retire because of intense lobbying against an extended tenure for her, writes Thalif Deen. A former president of Ireland, Robinson was […]
South Africa’s Navi Pillay takes up the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September.
China lashed out on Thursday at the US for interfering in its affairs and insisted it would maintain restrictions on internet use during the Games.
The UN General Assembly has approved by consensus the appointment of SA Judge Navanethem Pillay as the UN’s new high commissioner for human rights.
The army is accused of terrorising people in the Ogaden region and the government won’t let outsiders go in to investigate
Though advocacy groups and helplines in recent years have given homosexuals a voice and some solace, they are still largely a hidden community.
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Vicky Hill report on a UN study on human rights
A leading US congressman said on Tuesday that China was carrying out a tragic crackdown to smother dissent during the Olympics.
The United Nations’s top human rights official on Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of the killing of opposition political activists in Zimbabwe. ”It is hard to get a very precise picture of the full range of the violence, or the exact number of politically motivated extra-judicial killings,” said Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.