The whereabouts of Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, and their respective wives Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi, remain unknown.
María Isabel Franco was a 15 year old student when she was raped and brutally killed in December 2001. She is one of thousands of women in Guatemala murdered since 2001.
In Slovenia, like the rest of Europe, nearly 100 per cent of the population has access to safe drinking water. Yet today many Romani communities struggle to collect even small amounts of water for drinking, washing and cooking.
The violence in Libya, where hundreds have been killed, including protesters exercising their right to freedom of expression, association and assembly, has escalated alarmingly into a human rights crisis.
During the 1991-1995 war between the Croatian Army and Croatian Serb armed forces, aided by the Yugoslav People’s Army, war crimes were committed by both sides. Twenty years later, many of the crimes remain unaddressed.
As mass demonstrations flare across Egypt, protesters have gathered to demand widespread political and human rights reform and an end to corruption, poverty and police abuse.
Corporate actors cannot be let off the hook for their negative impact on human rights. Ask the World Bank Group not to support companies that don't respect human rights.
Hundreds of marginalized Romanian and Bulgarian Roma families in France face being left without adequate shelter this winter as they face an ongoing threat of eviction from their camps.
