China Urged to Reform Rights-Abusing Laws
China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) should reject or revise laws that undermine domestic and international human rights protections, Human Rights…
Turkey Government Steamrolls Press Freedom: Amnesty
The government takeover of Zaman newspaper is the latest deeply troubling episode in the Turkish authorities’ ongoing onslaught on dissenting…
Security Council Imposes New Sanctions on North Korea
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution that imposes new sanctions and tightens some of its…
Communist Party Condemns Sedition Case on Sitaram Yechury
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has condemned the registering of a case of sedition against…
JNU Issue: Supreme Court to Hear Delhi Court Violence Case
Since Delhi police did not bother to take any action against the accused lawyers despite their crime committed in the…
Russia, US Agree to End Hostilities in Syria
President of Russia Vladimir Putin said in an address Monday that Russia and the US have agreed to work together…