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Don’t make scapegoat of Khmer Rouge killer, says genocide survivor
The genocidal Khmer Rouge killer known as Comrade Duch was last month finally found guilty by a U.N. tribunal of ... -
Religious freedom in Vietnam
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is holding a hearing into religious freedom in Vietnam: The overall human rights and ... -
Cuba: travel ban eased as harassment of dissidents continues
The Obama administration is planning to make it easier for U.S. -
New democracy database launched
The Carter Center has launched an innovative database which integrates over 150 sources of international law that election observers can ... -
Preventiva: preventing justice in Bosnia
The recent anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre highlighted the challenges of marrying reconciliation with accountability for past abuses, not least ... -
Russia burns as citizens smoulder
The wildfires raging across Russia have exposed the authorities’ incompetence, further alienated citizens from the state and, despite this week’s ... -
‘Everything is broken’ in Burma’s Orwellian regime
‘Events happen in Burma, and then they are systematically unhappened.’ Jonathan Mirsky writes that the Orwellian nature of the country’s ... -
Freedom House applauds US law combatting "libel tourism"
At the same time, Freedom House urged England and other countries with weak libel protections to reform their laws and ... -
CPJ calls on Turkey to release American journalist
Journalist Jake Hess is accused of collaborating with the Kurdish Communities Union. -
CPJ decries extremism charges against journalists
Trumped-up charges of extremism against Ulugbek Abdusalomov, the editor of an independent newspaper, and Azimjon Askarov, a journalist and human ...
