Human Rights - Page 61

April 4, 2018

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Raul Castro's likely successor in Cuba, favors hard line against US and dissidents

On April 19, for the first time in almost 60 years, Cuba will have a leader whose last name is not Castro.

February 6, 2018

As Venezuela spirals downward, Utah man languishes in prison

Joshua Holt remains imprisoned in Venezuela, with no sign of an end to his plight.

January 30, 2018

What is Guantanamo Bay?

Since its opening, the Guantanamo Bay detention center has imprisoned nearly 800 people.

January 15, 2018

Pence promise fulfilled: US changes rules on the UN to help Christian and minority victims of 'genocide' in Iraq

Help appears finally to be on the way to thousands of desperate Christian, Yazidi and other minority refugees in northern Iraq, more than two months after Vice President Mike Pence promised last October 25 to  “stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the United Nations” and “provide support directly to persecuted communities through USAID.”

November 28, 2017

China sentences Taiwan activist to 5 years in prison for 'subversion of state power'

A Taiwanese activist was sentenced in China to five years in prison Tuesday for holding lectures online and assisting the families of jailed dissidents in a sign of how Beijing's crackdown on human rights extends beyond its borders.

November 21, 2017

China jails prominent human rights lawyer for 2 years for 'inciting subversion'

A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison on the vague charge of inciting subversion of state power, the latest verdict passed down in a sweeping crackdown on activism that has drawn widespread international criticism.

November 2, 2017

Amid Pence promises, persecuted Iraqi Christians still in perilous limbo

Hundreds of thousands of persecuted Christians, Yazidis and other minorities driven from battered northern Iraq are still in a perilous limbo, as humanitarian groups struggle to make sense of a new Trump Administration initiative rolled out after Vice President Mike Pence’s October 25 promise to “stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the United Nations” and “provide support directly to persecuted communities through USAID.”

October 24, 2017

Trump's refugee ban ends as executive order toughens vetting for 11 countries

As President Trump’s four-month ban on refugees came to a close on Tuesday, his administration was getting ready to roll out a new set of “extreme vetting” procedures that includes collecting biographical data as well as employment history from people seeking entry into the United States.

September 26, 2017

Saudi Arabia gives women the right to drive in new order

Women in Saudi Arabia will now be allowed to obtain drivers licenses, as per an order from King Salman, reports said.

September 26, 2017

UN war on sexual abuse in Central African Republic still a shambles, internal study shows

Despite years of “zero tolerance” of the sexual abuse crisis by United Nations’ peacekeepers, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic is still a bureaucratic shambles when it comes to recording, investigating and keeping track of those crimes, according to a U.N. internal report.