Human Rights Blog Posts

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by Dr Poh Soo Kai   Operation Cold Store was launched on 2 February 1963 by the British colonialists with the connivance of Lee Kuan Yew.  Over a hundred left-wing activists, including myself, were arrested.  In one fell swoop, the entire lead...

by Human Rights Watch   Singapore continued its strict controls on free association, expression, assembly, and other basic rights in 2012, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013.   In its 665-page report, Human Rights Wa...

ALEPPO, Syria: The bodies of at least 68 young men and boys, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, were found on Tuesday in a river in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a watchdog and rebels said. A Free Syrian Army captain at the scene sa...

On 31st January we publish the ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard 2013. Here's a short video that I've just put together to explain what the Scorecard project is, and why it should be of interest toRead more…...

Today, Roe turns 40. In the recent election, abortion was a topic that ruined several politicians' campaigns. The debate rages on, more restrictions are passed across the country, and in an attempt to hit hard against anti-choice attacks, pro-choic...

      “Mr Goh, it’s my pleasure to welcome you once again to Faith Community Baptist Church. The last time we met was during the Marine Parade light up.   We are so honoured by your visit again this morning.   I...

This is the Muslim crapola again. When are these Muslim men going to learn that 15 year old girls are not 25 year old women even if they look like it Maybe he can’t see too well but the parents are to blame and now the authorities think they so...

By: Haroon Siddique Via: The Guardian Malala Yousafzai discharged from Birmingham hospital Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been discharged from the Birmingham hospital (video) where she wa...

  Turkey enters 2013 with a 270-page report listing its progress towards the EU. Europe Minister and Chief Negotiatior Egemen Bağış used the occasion to lambast, once more, the regular monitoringRead more…...

Two tales of torture and tyranny. Two brutal regimes. One the enemy of the United States and its allies. The other home to the US Fifth Fleet. One demonised by much of the media. The other mostly ignored.The headline Blogger's death stirs political h...

  Given two years of brutal violence and the killing of over 40,000 people, it is hard to take seriously any comments from the Syrian regime suggesting a political solution to the devastatingRead more…...

A few days after the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting tragedy, the members from Westboro Baptist Church are proudly showing their true colors again. And are stirring up more controversy by doing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we...

Khalid El-Masri also known as Khaled El-Masri and Khaled Masri, is a German citizen who was kidnapped in the Republic of Macedonia, flown to Afghanistan, allegedly beaten, stripped, violated while... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi...

Top man! ...and rightly so. From the Telegraph: Joseph Devine, the Bishop of Motherwell, said he considered the Prime Minister “out of his depth” and Christians cannot trust him given the “contradiction” between his statements on religious...

On Monday 10th December, 2012 Human Rights enthusiasts worldwide will be observing the annual International Human Rights Day held each year on December 10 since 10 December 1948 when the United Nations(UN) General Assembly adopted the Universal Decla...

On the 29th of November, Palestine was upgraded from Observer to Non-Member Observer status by the United Nations in an overwhelming 138-9 vote.  Predictably, the United States, Israel, and a handful of others voted ‘no’. Despite claims...

  “Russia has no future.” Last autumn you heard this repeated like a mantra in Moscow. “We have no future.” Putin’s capital talked this way because everyone interested in politics had done theRead more…...

  Bulgaria counts as an Eastern European country, but let’s not forget that it is closer to southern countries such as Greece, Turkey or Italy than it is to, say, the Baltics. Data from the 2011Read more…...

Last week Wendy Bacon & I spoke about what happens to coverage of human rights abuses when journalists are shut out. The presentation was part of the Thomson Reuters Human Rights Law conference in Sydney on 22 Nov 2012.My webpage/blog post for the pr...