The Gay Pride march in Riga on Saturday may have passed
largely without incident, but elsewhere in Europe, the right of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
Uzbekistani human rights defender Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, who was
sentenced to eight years in prison in 2006, was unexpectedly released
on Monday, 2 June.
Amnesty International has condemned the detention of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, saying that his
detention was part of a sudden, sharp and dangerous crackdown on
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The first female judge to work at the High Court in Pakistan, Majida Razvi; a young Brighton-based Zimbabwean, Alois Mbawara; and Murat Kurnaz, released from Guant&aac
Wednesday 4 June 2008 marks the nineteenth anniversary of the Chinese
government's crackdown on the pro-democracy demonstrations in and
around Beijing's Tiananmen Sq
Amnesty International has called on the South African government to protect the human rights of people at
risk of violent attacks and displacement from their homes on
110 states have agreed a provisional text for a historic new Convention on
Cluster Munitions, which is a treaty to ban the "Use, Production and
Transfer of Clus
