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By Mike Cooper Atlanta 31 January 2006 Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. She had been in poor health since suffering a stroke last summer. Co
The United Nations Human Rights Office expresses great concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain. It says it is receiving reports of more people who have gone missing, been killed and subjected to intimidation and harassment.
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 July 2006 The new United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent part of the agenda of future meetings. --------- The former, discredited U.
By Shally Zomorodi Washington, DC 22 March 2006 watch Iranian Actor report Veteran television and film actor Anthony Azizi has played a variety of roles ranging from the intensely dramatic to hilariou
AS IT IS 2014-01-28 UN Urges African Nations to Protect Sexual Rights 联合国敦促非洲国家保护性权利 From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome back. Im Caty Weaver. On the show today we go to a conference in Cameroon. Delegates
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 27 April 2007 International rights groups are accusing the Pakistan government of muzzling the country's free press. From Islamabad, VOA correspondent Benjamin Sand reports the government is under fire for a series of alleg
By Kari Barber Dakar 24 April 2007 Human-rights groups are calling for an investigation into the Guinea government's use of force that left more than 100 dead following nationwide, union-led strikes and protests in January and February. Kari Barber r
By Ron Corben Bangkok 20 February 2007 A Karen boy, 6, allegedly shot in the arm by Burma military, during a massacre of villagers (File) A U.S. human rights and environmental group accuses Burma's military government of forcing ethnic Karen out of t
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 21 February 2007 U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says Indonesia should immediately release political prisoners in Papua. In a report released Wednesday, the rights group says Jakarta's actions in Papua are a stain on its democr
By Steve Herman Tokyo 01 November 2006 A privately produced report says international attention should be paid to the human rights situation in North Korea, which the report's authors say amounts to crimes against humanity. ----- North Korean boys e
By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 May 2007 The first international human rights film festival to take place in Bangui, Central African Republic, has ended. During the week-long festival, about 15,000 people saw 10 films. Festival organizers say they were under
By Tendai Maphosa London 23 May 2007 Human rights watchdog Amnesty International launched its annual report for 2007 in London. The group says the 12 months covered again show gross human rights abuses on the African continent. Tendai Maphosa has mor
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 27 February 2006 The United States has announced its intention to vote against a proposal for a new U.N. Human Rights Council, calling it
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 March 2007 Human rights organizations are warning that the violence in Zimbabwe could spiral out of control and are calling for Southern African leaders to take action if the Zimbabwe government fails to halt the brutali
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 21 June 2006 Indonesian Army soldiers watch from their armored vehicles during a security preparation in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, May 8, 2006 A new report by a human-rights group says the Indonesian military's busin
A Burmese human rights activist says Burma's military government continues to use rape as a weapon to subdue ethnic minorities. She urges Burma's neighbors to put pressure on the military to stop sexual violence against women. Claudia Blume reports
MLK Holiday Celebrates Late Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s rise as a civil rights leader began in 1955 when he spearheaded the drive to desegregate public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. By August 1963, Reverend King's push for equal righ
Report: Women Farmers Denied Equal Rights A humanitarian group says if women farmers had the same rights as men much more could be done to reduce world hunger. Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resources would help ensure food sec
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Forty-five years ago today, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment would have insured women have equal rights to men, but it was never adopted. It fell three states short of the 38 needed wi
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In Guatemala, there's been a wave of killings of indigenous leaders over the last year. International human rights organizations have tried to raise the alarm, but in Guatemala itself, there's been little outrage and silence from