25 December 08 - Release from the UN press office - The Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin, has expressed his increasing concern for Sri Lankan civilians in the northern Vanni region. In a letter today [23 December] to the (...) Read

19 December 08 - As Internet usage grows in communist Vietnam, fostering a vibrant community of bloggers, the government is looking at ways to regulate blogs, particularly those that tend to be political rather than personal. Read

15 December 08 - Amid growing concerns about a reported excavation at a mass grave site in northern Afghanistan, a senior UN official has said the organisation is committed to help Afghan authorities preserve such sites in order to protect evidence of crimes committed over the past three decades of war in the (...) Read

12 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT It has been reminded during the scrutiny of Uzbekistan’s human rights record on Thursday 11th December that children were threatened with expulsion from school and their parents told they would lose their jobs if their children did not harvest cotton. Several (...) Read

12 December 08 - When Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar in May, leaving close to 140,000 people dead or missing, aid workers feared an increase in child trafficking from the region. Read

29 November 08 - The terrorist attacks unleashed in the Indian port city and financial hub of Mumbai continue to reverberate through Pakistan at a personal level and on the media. Read

27 November 08 - With its first trial delayed until early 2009, the Khmer Rouge tribunal is facing another challenge: how to balance its mandate to try only former leaders deemed most senior against pressure to prove its independence by ordering further (...) Read

23 November 08 - From Bangkok Post Asean governments will be urged next month to call for a Commission of Inquiry on Burma by the UN Human Rights Council. But the new Asean Human Rights Body will face a wide range of problems and requests. As soon as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) (...) Read

20 November 08 - When Gunnar Bergstrom stepped off the plane into the sweltering heat of the Cambodian capital in August 1978, he did not even begin to suspect the fate that had befallen the country whose struggle he had supported from afar. Read

10 November 08 - An onslaught by Burmese troops in the eastern part of the military-ruled country, running for three years now, is laying the junta open to charge of ‘crimes against humanity’. Read