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Biden says to push Putin at summit to protect human rights
AFP, Published on 31/05/2021
» WILMINGTON (UNITED STATES) - President Joe Biden pledged Sunday to tell Russian leader Vladimir Putin at their June summit that Washington will not let Moscow "abuse" human rights.
'Serious' rights violations during Chile protests: Human Rights Watch
AFP, Published on 27/11/2019
» SANTIAGO - Chile's national police committed "serious human rights violations" as weeks of violent demonstrations across the South American country claimed 25 lives, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a report calling for reform of the force.
Human Rights Watch chief says barred from entering Hong Kong
AFP, Published on 12/01/2020
» HONG KONG - Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said Sunday he had been denied entry into Hong Kong, where he had arrived to launch the watchdog's annual report after months of civil unrest in the city.
US scraps UN meeting on North Korea human rights
AFP, Published on 07/12/2018
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - The United States has dropped a bid to hold a UN Security Council meeting on North Korea's human rights record after failing to garner enough support for the talks, diplomats said Friday.
N. Korea talks sidelining human rights: UN rapporteur
AFP, Published on 09/07/2018
» SEOUL: The North Korean talks process with the US and the South is sidelining the human rights of Pyongyang's oppressed citizens, the UN's top official on the issue said Monday.
N. Korea slams US censure on human rights
AFP, Published on 25/04/2018
» SEOUL - North Korea condemned US criticism of its human rights record as "ridiculous", days before leader Kim Jong Un's summit with the South and ahead of a meeting with US President Donald Trump.
'Helsinki for human rights': demo greets Trump, Putin
AFP, Published on 15/07/2018
» HELSINKI - Denouncing attacks on human rights, press freedom and dissent, more than 2,000 people protested in Helsinki Sunday as the city prepares to host an historic US-Russia summit.
FIFA told to take World Cup off human rights abusers
AFP, Published on 15/04/2016
» ZURICH - FIFA should threaten to strip the World Cup off host nations if it believes there are systematic human rights abuses, a review of football's governing body record on civil liberties concluded Thursday.
Myanmar human rights leaders resign over child abuse scandal
AFP, Published on 06/10/2016
» YANGON - Four members of Myanmar's human rights commission resigned on Thursday, after the agency was pilloried for failing to help two girls allegedly tortured for years at a tailor's shop.
South Korean law on N. Korea human rights comes into force
AFP, Published on 04/09/2016
» SEOUL - A South Korean law aimed at improving human rights in North Korea came into force on Sunday, days after reports that the regime in Pyongyang had executed a top official.