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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The war in Syria is a conflict of the social media age. Cellphones are ubiquitous among the rebels, the government, even ordinary citizens. And that means almost no bad deed goes unrecorded. As NPR's science correspondent Joe Pal
By Tendai Maphosa London 28 May 2008 Amnesty International marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a report finding, among other things, that, despite decolonization, Africa has not seen many promi
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, has urged an enhanced OSCE role in settling regional conflicts and promoting human rights. Clinton also sealed
European companies have been accused by Human Rights Watch of violating workers' rights in the United States. In a new report, it says European multinational firms have carried out aggressive campaigns to keep workers in the U.S. from organizing and
By Amberin Zaman Batman, Turkey 19 April 2006 Kurdish demonstrators Turkey has in recent years adopted a series of democratic reforms in an effort to meet European Union standards for membership. But
A study by human rights groups in southern Africa say torture and other abuses in Zimbabwe have been so widespread and systematic that they could be considered crimes against humanity. And it says these abuses continue, causing a major blemish on th
As human rights activists prepare to mark the 9th World Refugee Day, June 20, one focus this year is on the stateless. Those are the refugees who, for a variety of reasons, have no nationality. A bill recently introduced in the U.S. Congress would al
SatelliteTechnology Helps Human Rights Monitors AU.N. panel of experts is expected to release a report soon citing evidence of war crimes in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war. Among the evidence the panel reviewed was satellite imagery from t
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 06 December 2007 Eritrea's government has responded angrily to an appeal by a Paris-based media watchdog, urging the European Union to declare Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki persona non grata for violating human rights and
The United Nations' special representative on human rights in Sudan has completed an 11-day visit to the country. Among other issues, she raised particular concern with the recent wave of tribal violence in the country's south, urging the semi-auton
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 19 March 2008 An international human rights group says the upcoming elections in Zimbabwe are not likely to be fair because of human rights abuses and flaws in electoral procedures. The Human Rights Watch group made the ass
By Nancy Palus Dakar 21 April 2008 Throughout West Africa gold, bauxite, uranium and other lucrative minerals are being extracted from the land, but local communities benefit little or in many cases lose out. Human-rights and development experts at a
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 01 November 2007 The international organization Human Rights Watch is calling on the Sudanese government to put an end to forcibly relocating people displaced by conflict in the Western region of Darfur. As Derek Kilner report
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 March 2008 In Sri Lanka, an international panel invited to monitor the investigation of human rights abuses has quit. Another human rights group has also attacked the government for its rights record, calling it one of
Human Rights Watch says at least 10 people are being detained without charges in Ethiopia, following an operation in early 2007 that covertly transferred terrorism suspects between countries in the Horn of Africa region. As Derek Kilner reports from
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 10 June 2008 International and local rights groups condemned the restrictions imposed by the Indonesian government on a Muslim sect, saying the move restricts religious freedom. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins has more fro
By Nancy Palus Saly, Senegal 10 March 2008 Human rights groups are calling on the Organization of the Islamic Conference, meeting in Dakar this week, to push for an end to violence in Sudan's Darfur region. Activists and religious leaders say the wor
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 14 November 2007 The head of a Mogadishu-based group that promotes human rights and democracy tells VOA that Somalis in the capital are fleeing by the thousands every day, largely to escape being used as human shields and becomi
The U.N. Human Rights council has postponed discussion of a highly critical report on the secret detention of terror suspects in dozens of countries. One of the report's authors tells VOA that government officials in the United States and elsewhere w
By Scott Bobb Harare 01 October 2009 Zimbabwe human rights activist Jestina Mukoko at a news conference in Harare, Thursday 1 Oct. 2009 Human-rights defenders in Zimbabwe are praising a Supreme Court decision ordering all charges to be dropped again