The South Asia Human Rights Index 2008 was published by the Asian Centre For Human Rights in August 2008. ISBN 978-81-88987-17-7. It critically assesses the state of human rights, democracy and civil liberties in several South Asian nations: Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Pakistan; Maldives; Nepal; Afghanistan; and India. Topics covered include human rights violations, torture and repression; free...

The House of Commons this afternoon and evening had a lengthy and excellent debate on Promoting Democracy and Human Rights, despite being interrupted by the Home Secretary halfway through as she wished to make a special statement in response to...

One of the things that is most execrable about Canada's so-called human rights commissions is that they trade on the words "human rights". And, like counterfeit money devaluing real money, their counterfeit human rights, like the "human right" not to be offended, devalue the term that once was reserved for real rights like freedom of religion, the equality of men and women before the law...

I feel that many will not agree that an international agreement written with the express purpose of protecting human rights could possible be responsible for the removal of rights, how could it be that this is possible. Well what exactly are basic human rights; traditionally they are controls on those who ...

SCOTLAND has an excellent human rights culture - except where it matters. It can boast the Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland (HRCS)

In healthy democracies, the media is a watchdog over the government. In the soft tyranny of Canada's human rights commissions, the government is the watchdog over the media. More eye-opening reporting from Joseph Brean, the MSM's most prolific HRC-watcher: The Ontario Human Rights Commission is calling for Parliament to force all Canadian magazines, newspapers and "media services" Web si...

Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice seeks to ensure the upholding of human rights, civil liberties and democracy in Ghana. Some representatives are appointed by the president. Its website provides information on its history, aims, structure and recent activities. It includes free access to press releases, plus papers and full text reports. Topics covered include elections in Ghan...

MPs are calling for a British Bill of Rights, which would go further than existing human rights law. The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights wants to include greater protections for vulnerable groups such as children and the elderly. Currently, our main protection in law comes from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) - an international treaty - and the UK's own Human Rights...

Human Rights FirstTonight, the organization Human Rights First will give out its annual Human Rights Awards in New York. One of the honorees is 24-year-old Russian activist Oleg Kozlovsky. In 2005, Kozlovsky helped found Oborona (Defense), a youth democracy movement modeled on Serbia's Otpor and Ukraine's Pora, the student groups that played a critical role in those countries' democ...

  On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights on 10th December 2008, Human Rights Day, the Spokespersons of the European Green Party have said that there is no cause for complacency regarding the human rights situation within the EU itself and that EU Member States and institutions must also do much more to defend human rights in their dealings with countries ou...