Authorities in Haiti must enact legislation to protect children workingas domestic help in conditions that amount to slavery, said AmnestyInternational ahead of ...
Sexual violence against women and girls is pervasive and widespread in Haiti: much of it is directed at girls. There were estimated to be more than 100000 girls ...
Four men on trial for an attack on human rights lawyer Ricardo Lagunes Gasca, and other inhabitants of Ejido Jotolá, southern Mexico, in September 2009, have been ...
Student activist Mohammed Soudani was sentenced following an unfair trial on 24 October, to four months’ imprisonment. He was arrested on 22 October after meeting ...
On 16 November 2009, the Court of Cassation in Bahrain upheld the death penalty against Jassim Abdulmanan, a male Bangladeshi national. The execution is now pending ...
Dr Ramin Pourandarjani had allegedly received threats to deter him fromrevealing the extent of abuse that had taken place at Kahrizak detention centre.
