The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on Monday called on all governments to make a concerted effort to fight against enforced disappearances. Noting the increasing prevalence of disappearances, Houria Es Slami ,...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday commuted the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison. The last execution in Kenya took place in 1987, though there were 2,655 male and 92 female death row...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on Tuesday documenting the systemic discrimination of minorities in Myanmar and calling for concrete steps end these human rights violations....
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Monday called on the US government to "abolish the mandatory detention of migrants, especially asylum seekers, from all countries." The working group stated that mandatory detention was a...
According to a report on Monday, the Burundi Interior Ministry issued an order last week withdrawing permits from a prominent human rights group and four other non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Association for the Protection of Human Rights and...
The Chinese Communist Party announced on Monday that the Chinese government has punished more than one million officials for corruption. The statistics were released when the highest-ranking members of the party met for the Sixth...
South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed on Monday to amend the country's constitutional provision that restricts presidents to one term in office. In a speech to the legislature, she called for a special committee...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called into question Tunisia's use of house arrests under a November 2015 state of emergency decree. According to the release, at least 139 people have been put under house arrest...
The government of Cambodia formally exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) , after the cabinet ordered the nation's immigration officials to prevent him from entering the country. Rainsy has...
An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed former president Mohamed Morsi's 20-year prison sentence. The prison sentence arose from a conviction for the killings of protesters during 2012 demonstrations. In addition to Morsi, several other senior figures from the...