China has dismissed a UN report on allegations of widespread torture in the country, accusing those who compiled it of using false information.- A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.
The US military said on Thursday that American and Afghan forces killed several insurgents during an extended patrol in southern Afghanistan where villagers say that about 40 civilians in a wedding party were killed.
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the district collector of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu and the state's director general of police after members of the Dalit community were threatened by upper caste Hindus and were barred from offering prayers at a temple.- Forty Afghan civilians were killed and 28 others injured when coalition forces mistakenly bombed a wedding party in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
The UN pointman on North Korean human rights has urged Pyongyang to stop punishing asylum-seekers returned from abroad and also to end public executions.
A four-member Brazil delegation led by Minister for Human Rights Paulo Vannuchi met NHRC members and senior officials last week to get a first hand experience of the working of the Commission.
In a unique initiative, an NGO has begun a mobile legal service in Chandigarh free of cost to the common man. The Global Human Rights Council (GHRC) has launched a legal van linked to a 24-hour helpline for the poor and those in need.
Some 90 civilians, including 60children, were among those killed during military operation in the strife-torn Afghanistan's western Herat province last week, a United Nations investigation has revealed.
China on Tuesday expressed its "dissatisfaction" over US comments on the sensitive issue of human rights and asked Washington to advise its citizens not to break the laws of other nations while touring abroad.
The International Criminal Court is analysing evidence of alleged war crimes in the fighting between Georgia and Russia, the prosecutor for the tribunal in The Hague said on Wednesday.
Rights groups in India's restive northeastern state of Manipur have renewed their pledge to launch a movement for repealing a controversial anti-terror law enacted 50 years ago.
The watchdog said with "both national and state elections due in a few months, political parties and separatist groups are inciting the violence and using the dispute to fuel their own political agendas".
Police banned demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy in Paris on Thursday but critics of China's human rights record stepped up protests elsewhere in the world to mark the start of the Beijing Olympics.
US President George W Bush arrived in Beijing on Thursday to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games after raising fresh concerns about China's attitude towards human rights.
A leading international rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, said the run-up to the Beijing Olympics has been marred by a well-documented surge in human rights abuses in China.
The men, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei, were detained by Iranian security forces in late June, without being charged. Their whereabouts remain unknown, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
India is the best human rights performer in South Asia, while Sri Lanka has the worst human rights record, according to a report released by human rights watchdog Asian Centre for Human Rights on Friday.
Indian-origin ICC judge Navanethem Pillay has been named the United Nations' new human rights chief, despite some initial opposition from the US.
Indonesia is acknowledging that it carried out gross human rights abuses during East Timor's 1999 break for independence, but stopped short of offering a full apology on Tuesday and said no one would be prosecuted.
In what could be a controversial twist to Britain's fight against terrorism, MPs are calling for a probe into allegations that "torture" of British nationals has been "outsourced" to Pakistani intelligence agencies by their British counterparts.
US prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a UN rights official has said.
The UN Human Rights Council asked the government in Myanmar to grant immediate access to aid organizations in a resolution approved Wednesday in Geneva.
The United States urged China to give a full account of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and release prisoners taken during the protests, a State Department spokesman has said.- Most human rights abuses by corporations occur in Asia, closely followed by Africa, then Latin America, according to a new United Nations report due to be discussed on Tuesday.
