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New claims of waterboarding by the CIA have emerged, contradicting claims by the US authorities that only three people were submitted to a practice widely regarded as torture.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused both the Syrian government and the opposition Tuesday of large-scale human rights violations, including torturing and reportedly executing prisoners and failing to protect civilians fleeing the war-ravaged country in record numbers.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed the community payback team carried out more than 23,000 hours of work for the council in 2011 –while the council shelled out £40,000 to sponsor their probation officers.

The UK Embassy in Russia has neither confirmed nor refuted media reports that entrance restrictions have been adopted based on the “Magnitsky list,” while noting that the government as a rule denies entrance to individuals who are known to have ...

The Ethiopian military has been accused of conducting a campaign of arbitrary arrest, rape and torture against scores of villagers in the Gambella region of the country according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The UK Commission on a Bill of Rights seeks to unravel the disputes about national autonomy that have arisen from Britain’s relationship with the European Human Rights Convention. Regardless of their findings, this inquiry should not be used as evidence ...

THE RUSSIAN government’s distaste for freedom of expression has been in the headlines recently thanks to the trial and subsequent imprisonment of three members of punk collective Pussy Riot. But the persecution of these women forms only a small part of ...

A Guatemalan court has sentenced a former police chief to 70 years in jail for ordering the kidnapping of a university student during the country’s civil war.

The EU arrest warrant scheme under which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to be extradited to Sweden is a “threat to human rights,” as it is often abused with harsh consequences for the lives of the people concerned, Europe’s ...

A new report has highlighted 2331 cases of violence against children in Pakistan, stating the government is not able, or not willing to help them.