The Iranian presidential elections are to be held this month on 12
June. The candidates are: the incumbent President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad;
Mohsen Rezaei, a former co
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been
exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of
poverty and inequalit
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
Denied their rights to housing, employment, healthcare and education,
Roma are often victims of forced evictions, racist attacks and police
ill-treatment.
Palestinian armed groups and the Israeli authorities are denying prisoners their rights, including Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held for 1,000 days, and
