TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Files seized by Iranian agents from the offices of dissident Tehran attorney Shirin Ebadi may put her and her clients in danger, Nobel Peace Prize winners say.
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi contended Iranian authorities had no written justification for raiding human rights offices in Tehran Sunday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- International human rights organizations say a court ruling in Lebanon that freed human rights activist Muhammad Mugraby was a major civil rights victory.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Human rights activists called on Kazakhstan to clean up its political system before it begins its term as head of a European security alliance.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Sudanese authorities have arrested and detained three human rights advocates in Khartoum, a group said Wednesday.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have killed 500 people and detained about 1,000 more since elections were held two years ago, a group said.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Domestic workers in such countries as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Malaysia are regularly subjected to domestic violence and have no legal rights, activists say.
BEIJING, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A human rights group alleges a Chinese mother of two faces a forced abortion this week.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Human rights activists called on Lebanon Wednesday to submit a required report to the United Nations on the use of torture in its jails.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The next U.S. president should make human rights a central part of his foreign policy agenda, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
TEHRAN, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- An advocate of women's rights in Iran was prevented from boarding a plane and ordered to report for questioning, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Sudanese forces and government-backed militias this month have attacked more than a dozen villages, targeting rebel forces, Human Rights Watch said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The European Parliament has boldly dared to go where the Nobel Peace Prize committee feared to: It has awarded its Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese political activist Hu Jia.
STRASBOURG, France, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Chinese political activist Hu Jia won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the parliament announced Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Provisions in U.S. trade agreements meant to protect foreign workers are weak and not well enforced, Human Rights Watch asserted Wednesday.
