Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world/human-rights world Human Rights en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:39:28 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world/human-rights http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/cubapoliticsrights_20100209043955 afp/20100209/cubapoliticsrights AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:39:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/cubapoliticsrights_20100209043955"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265690336138-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=L8fw0ouAG1C2lMnrWAuahw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A Cuban police officer takes a nap in Havana. Cuba has released the last five of a group of 35 dissidents it arrested last week for demonstrating on behalf of a conscientious objector, a Cuban human rights group said(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Cuba has released the last five of a group of 35 dissidents it arrested last week for demonstrating on behalf of a conscientious objector, a Cuban human rights group said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/cubapoliticsrights_20100209043955"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265690336138-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=L8fw0ouAG1C2lMnrWAuahw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Cuban police officer takes a nap in Havana. Cuba has released the last five of a group of 35 dissidents it arrested last week for demonstrating on behalf of a conscientious objector, a Cuban human rights group said(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_saudi_marriages nm/20100208/us_saudi_marriages Reuters world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:14:09 GMT Reuters - Saudi Arabia's state human rights body has hired a lawyer to review the case of a girl whose mother sought her divorce from an 80-year-old man, a move activists hope is a first step against child marriage. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_human_rights ap/20100208/ml_bahrain_human_rights AP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:47:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_human_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.32aef9f2dafe4691b48f347a534f9c37.mideast_bahrain_human_rights_xhj101.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=olLJjL73ME6PJZprDJDBlQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch, second left, Abdullah al-Durazi, head of the Bahrain Human Rights Organization, second right, and Human Rights Watch attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, right, address journalists and Western diplomats Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, at a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. Stork claimed Bahrain has resumed torturing security detainees in the past two years, calling it a 'distressing' relapse after showing the political will to stop the practice. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)" border="0" /></a>AP - After abolishing torture more than 10 years ago, Bahrain's security services are once more resorting to the practice to extract confessions from detainees, including many Shiite protesters, said a report released Monday by an international human rights group.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_human_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.32aef9f2dafe4691b48f347a534f9c37.mideast_bahrain_human_rights_xhj101.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=olLJjL73ME6PJZprDJDBlQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch, second left, Abdullah al-Durazi, head of the Bahrain Human Rights Organization, second right, and Human Rights Watch attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, right, address journalists and Western diplomats Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, at a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. Stork claimed Bahrain has resumed torturing security detainees in the past two years, calling it a 'distressing' relapse after showing the political will to stop the practice. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_somalia_conflict nm/20100208/us_somalia_conflict Reuters world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:34:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_somalia_conflict"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265736902279-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_23ITNWg8temf7yBVuhpUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Clouds rise above the Seychelles main island of Mahe in 2009. Oceanographers carrying out vital studies of the Indian Ocean's marine world have been idle for a year, left stranded ashore by Somalia's marauding pirates and the global armada combating them.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An exchange of mortar shells between Somali government forces and rebels killed at least nine civilians and injured 14 others, a human rights group said on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_somalia_conflict"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265736902279-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_23ITNWg8temf7yBVuhpUA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Clouds rise above the Seychelles main island of Mahe in 2009. Oceanographers carrying out vital studies of the Indian Ocean's marine world have been idle for a year, left stranded ashore by Somalia's marauding pirates and the global armada combating them.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians ap/20100207/ml_israel_palestinians AP world Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:55:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.4868222787e94274aba1e58760339cb2.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sXwlF8ApiGd0yGu4N2M69Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2008, file photo, an injured Palestinian is helped from the rubble following an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israel has failed to show it will conduct an impartial investigation of allegations that it committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive last winter, an international human rights group said Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Omar, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Israel has failed to show it will conduct an impartial investigation of allegations that it committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive last year, an international human rights group said Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.4868222787e94274aba1e58760339cb2.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sXwlF8ApiGd0yGu4N2M69Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2008, file photo, an injured Palestinian is helped from the rubble following an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israel has failed to show it will conduct an impartial investigation of allegations that it committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive last winter, an international human rights group said Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Omar, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazaunrights afp/20100207/mideastconflictgazaunrights AFP world Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:18:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazaunrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265530631425-1-0.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=_5gD_hyuLF8F8O8CmscR_Q--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="A doctor from the non-governmental organisation Help Doctors examines a wounded Palestinian girl following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City in January, 2008. Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel has failed to properly investigate alleged crimes committed during last winter's devastating Gaza war as demanded by the United Nations.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel has failed to properly investigate alleged crimes committed during last winter's devastating Gaza war as demanded by the United Nations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazaunrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265530631425-1-0.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=_5gD_hyuLF8F8O8CmscR_Q--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="photo" title="A doctor from the non-governmental organisation Help Doctors examines a wounded Palestinian girl following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City in January, 2008. Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel has failed to properly investigate alleged crimes committed during last winter's devastating Gaza war as demanded by the United Nations.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_afp/nkoreausdetainee_20100207041443 afp/20100207/nkoreausdetainee AFP world Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:13:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_afp/nkoreausdetainee_20100207041443"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265426608613-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=O003ctPeBJ5kBbQM5L9ODw--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="This photo released by the Korean Central News Agency shows US detainee Robert Park during an interview in Pyongyang. Park has arrived in in Los Angeles after being freed by North Korea, where he had been held since December 25.(AFP/KCNA/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A US missionary released by North Korea after entering the country on Christmas Day to protest human rights abuses arrived back in the United States, airport officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_afp/nkoreausdetainee_20100207041443"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265426608613-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=O003ctPeBJ5kBbQM5L9ODw--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="This photo released by the Korean Central News Agency shows US detainee Robert Park during an interview in Pyongyang. Park has arrived in in Los Angeles after being freed by North Korea, where he had been held since December 25.(AFP/KCNA/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/wl_sthasia_afp/eusrilankatradeunrestrights afp/20100205/eusrilankatradeunrestrights AFP world Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:06:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/wl_sthasia_afp/eusrilankatradeunrestrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100205/capt.photo_1265385894920-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=UWTAjabl3Huox78En7xWjA--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="A container ship leaves the main port of Colombo in December 2009. EU nations have decided to suspend Sri Lanka's preferential trade status because of the island's human rights record and will make the formal move later this month, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Ishara S.Kodikara)" border="0" /></a>AFP - EU nations have decided to suspend Sri Lanka's preferential trade status because of the island's human rights record and will make the formal move later this month, officials said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/wl_sthasia_afp/eusrilankatradeunrestrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100205/capt.photo_1265385894920-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=UWTAjabl3Huox78En7xWjA--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="photo" title="A container ship leaves the main port of Colombo in December 2009. EU nations have decided to suspend Sri Lanka's preferential trade status because of the island's human rights record and will make the formal move later this month, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Ishara S.Kodikara)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/ts_nm/us_korea_north_release nm/20100205/us_korea_north_release Reuters topstories Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:29:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/ts_nm/us_korea_north_release"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100205/i/r3395922122.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=_d2HPaV6s3_uSiZ.W3Owkg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Robert Park, 28, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul in this December 22, 2009 file photo. North Korea said on February 5, 2010 it will release U.S. religious activist Park, who was arrested in December for illegally entering the country. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/Files (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: HEADSHOT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - North Korea said on Friday it will release U.S. religious activist Robert Park, arrested in December for illegally entering the country in a journey to raise awareness about Pyongyang's human rights abuses.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/ts_nm/us_korea_north_release"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100205/i/r3395922122.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=_d2HPaV6s3_uSiZ.W3Owkg--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="Robert Park, 28, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul in this December 22, 2009 file photo. North Korea said on February 5, 2010 it will release U.S. religious activist Park, who was arrested in December for illegally entering the country. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/Files (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: HEADSHOT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_us_missionary ap/20100205/as_nkorea_us_missionary AP world Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:27:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_us_missionary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100205/capt.c0996f6be4ff47ff9167eb9979923126.north_korea_us_missionary_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=IWN1A_3ZIN5D31OwI4SZ9A--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, American missionary Robert Park speaks about his crossing the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China last December. North Korea said on Friday it has decided to free the detained American missionary who crossed its border to raise human rights issues. Robert Park slipped across the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to shut the country's camps for political prisoners and step down from power.(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)" border="0" /></a>AP - A "repentant" American missionary set to be freed from North Korea after being arrested at the border on Christmas said he was ashamed of the "biased" view he once held of the communist nation, Pyongyang's state media said Friday. There was no way to verify if the missionary was speaking freely or under duress from his captors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_us_missionary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100205/capt.c0996f6be4ff47ff9167eb9979923126.north_korea_us_missionary_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=IWN1A_3ZIN5D31OwI4SZ9A--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, American missionary Robert Park speaks about his crossing the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China last December. North Korea said on Friday it has decided to free the detained American missionary who crossed its border to raise human rights issues. Robert Park slipped across the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to shut the country's camps for political prisoners and step down from power.(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictmilitaryrights afp/20100204/mideastconflictmilitaryrights AFP world Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:21:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictmilitaryrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265314826586-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=XSB8QnvQLSu1722qMAgO4A--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Israeli soldiers patrol on the beach in the northern city of Netanya on February 3. Only six percent of all investigations into alleged abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers led to prosecutions over the past decade, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Only six percent of all investigations into alleged abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers led to prosecutions over the past decade, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictmilitaryrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265314826586-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=XSB8QnvQLSu1722qMAgO4A--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="Israeli soldiers patrol on the beach in the northern city of Netanya on February 3. Only six percent of all investigations into alleged abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers led to prosecutions over the past decade, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_land_rights ap/20100204/af_kenya_land_rights AP world Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:31:21 GMT AP - A global group says a key African human rights body has determined Kenya illegally evicted an indigenous population to make way for a wildlife reserve. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_as/as_china_missing_lawyer ap/20100204/as_china_missing_lawyer AP world Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:18:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_as/as_china_missing_lawyer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.2de15bbe5c9c45e5bdccf1ee962ebb48.china_missing_lawyer_xay102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=niZObtn3VG5ShrH1FabDQQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 file photo, Gao Zhisheng gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China. The Chinese human rights lawyer missing for almost a year has been judged by legal authorities and 'is where he should be,' a Foreign Ministry official said in China's first public comment on the case. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - One of China's most daring activist lawyers disappeared a year ago Thursday, and the government that so closely monitored him has not explained where he is, infuriating even those used to Beijing's indifference to outside pressure on human rights.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_as/as_china_missing_lawyer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.2de15bbe5c9c45e5bdccf1ee962ebb48.china_missing_lawyer_xay102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=niZObtn3VG5ShrH1FabDQQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 file photo, Gao Zhisheng gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China. The Chinese human rights lawyer missing for almost a year has been judged by legal authorities and 'is where he should be,' a Foreign Ministry official said in China's first public comment on the case. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_sthasia_afp/attacksusafghanistanpakistancourt afp/20100204/attacksusafghanistanpakistancourt AFP world Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:17:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_sthasia_afp/attacksusafghanistanpakistancourt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265296166454-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=yfPhm9uvQNuJGABoH6dO4w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Pakistani supporters of hardline pro-Taliban party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Nazaryati (JUI-N) torch a US flag in a protest against the US court verdict, in Quetta. Protests have erupted across Pakistan after a US court convicted a Pakistani scientist of trying to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan, with President Asif Ali Zardari also calling for justice.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Protests erupted across Pakistan on Thursday after a US court convicted a Pakistani scientist of trying to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan, with President Asif Ali Zardari also calling for justice.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_sthasia_afp/attacksusafghanistanpakistancourt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265296166454-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=yfPhm9uvQNuJGABoH6dO4w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pakistani supporters of hardline pro-Taliban party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Nazaryati (JUI-N) torch a US flag in a protest against the US court verdict, in Quetta. Protests have erupted across Pakistan after a US court convicted a Pakistani scientist of trying to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan, with President Asif Ali Zardari also calling for justice.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/wl_nm/us_colombia_rights nm/20100203/us_colombia_rights Reuters world Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:54:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/wl_nm/us_colombia_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100203/i/r1767400325.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=HKbEmW1V0RzmBGh2TzUS9A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A coroner examines the body of a man killed by gunmen in Medellin September 26, 2009. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Colombia must act to halt rising violence, including against trade unionists, if it is to secure U.S. congressional approval for a long-delayed trade agreement with Washington, a U.S. human rights group said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/wl_nm/us_colombia_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100203/i/r1767400325.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=HKbEmW1V0RzmBGh2TzUS9A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="A coroner examines the body of a man killed by gunmen in Medellin September 26, 2009. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/wl_asia_afp/vietnamusrightsasean afp/20100203/vietnamusrightsasean AFP world Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:59:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/wl_asia_afp/vietnamusrightsasean"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100203/capt.photo_1265203514013-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=DjuQE1djjagQhLneH32T4Q--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="US ambassador to Vietnam Michael Michalak, seen here in 2009, said on Wednesday there has been a spike in human rights issues in Vietnam but dialogue, not harsher measures.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)" border="0" /></a>AFP - There has been a spike in human rights issues in Vietnam but dialogue, not harsher measures, is the way to respond, the United States ambassador said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/wl_asia_afp/vietnamusrightsasean"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100203/capt.photo_1265203514013-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=DjuQE1djjagQhLneH32T4Q--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="US ambassador to Vietnam Michael Michalak, seen here in 2009, said on Wednesday there has been a spike in human rights issues in Vietnam but dialogue, not harsher measures.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_protests ap/20100202/lt_venezuela_protests AP world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:31 GMT AP - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights raised concerns Tuesday over clashes between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chavez that have killed two people and injured dozens more. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_nobel_peace ap/20100202/eu_norway_nobel_peace AP world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:42:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_nobel_peace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100202/capt.ead7cc1b45814d57a72f84c3fe72321a.norway_nobel_peace_lon111.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=OmlwBv1H3dk8jqptmbMFww--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reform, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. As the submission deadline for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize closed Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, the Nobel Committee maintained its tradition of giving no hints, the contenders are kept secret for 50 years. But some nominations were announced by those who made them. Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of the PEN American Center and a Princeton philosophy professor, said in a statement that he had nominated Liu Xiaobo, a recently jailed Chinese dissident, for his 'distinguished and principled leadership in the area of human and political rights and freedom of expression.' (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Candidates for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize include a Russian human rights group, a Chinese dissident and an inanimate object: the Internet, people who made the nominations said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_nobel_peace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100202/capt.ead7cc1b45814d57a72f84c3fe72321a.norway_nobel_peace_lon111.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=OmlwBv1H3dk8jqptmbMFww--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reform, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. As the submission deadline for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize closed Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, the Nobel Committee maintained its tradition of giving no hints, the contenders are kept secret for 50 years. But some nominations were announced by those who made them. Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of the PEN American Center and a Princeton philosophy professor, said in a statement that he had nominated Liu Xiaobo, a recently jailed Chinese dissident, for his 'distinguished and principled leadership in the area of human and political rights and freedom of expression.' (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/india_nm/india458564 nm/20100202/india458564 Reuters world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:29:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/india_nm/india458564"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/ra1650632548.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=kQVBGXDGZ.WRvvy25vsdUQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="People shop inside an Apple store in central London in this March 29, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Democratic senator said on Tuesday he has asked 30 U.S. companies, including Apple, Facebook and Skype, for information on their human rights practices in China in the aftermath of Google's decision to no longer cooperate with Chinese Internet censorship efforts.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/india_nm/india458564"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/ra1650632548.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=kQVBGXDGZ.WRvvy25vsdUQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="People shop inside an Apple store in central London in this March 29, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/wl_asia_afp/vietnampoliticsrights afp/20100202/vietnampoliticsrights AFP world Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:09:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/wl_asia_afp/vietnampoliticsrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265122629417-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=DTPnhNu239XjPGNm5rW37A--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Vietnam will prevent "hostile forces" from exploiting democracy and human rights to sabotage the country's revolution, the Communist Party leader Nong Duc Manh, pictured in 2009, said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Vietnam will prevent "hostile forces" from exploiting democracy and human rights to sabotage the country's revolution, the Communist Party leader said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/wl_asia_afp/vietnampoliticsrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265122629417-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=DTPnhNu239XjPGNm5rW37A--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="Vietnam will prevent "hostile forces" from exploiting democracy and human rights to sabotage the country's revolution, the Communist Party leader Nong Duc Manh, pictured in 2009, said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)