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View Larger Image. A A | Email | Print Tweet. Share . - The UN's top human rights official said Friday that Libya's transitional government must...

UN Rights Chief: Libya Govt Must Take Over Prisons

The U.N.'s top human rights official says Libya's transitional government must take control of all makeshift prisons to prevent further atrocities...

Davos chief offers to meet with Occupy protesters

The head of the World Economic Forum has invited members of the 'Occupy' movement to meet him in person to discuss their concerns about the annual...
Libya is going through a difficult transition, having inherited weak state institutions and an absence of political parties, the top United Nations...

UN rights chief says US must close Guantanamo

The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago. . . ....
Detainees from Libya's civil war held by revolutionary brigades continue to be subjected to torture despite efforts by the provisional government ...

U.N. rights head: Bahrain failing to punish abuses

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Nation's top human rights official said on Wednesday Bahrain was failing to prosecute security forces who tortured people during anti-government protests in February and was still using excessive force against civilians."We continue to receive reports of ...
Following the news today of former-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's death, the Geneva-based UN Watch issued a press release calling on the United...
Where is the United Nations Human Rights Council? As the Libyan government deploys tanks, helicopter gunships and military aircraft against its own...
Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images. Chinese police ensure the wife of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo remains under house arrest.. . When the Nobel...