Julia Ozorio Gamecho is the first woman to tell the Truth and Justice Commission about how she was sexually abused by the military during General Alfredo Stroessner's
regime.
Eight male teachers were released without charge in Saudi Arabia on 12 July 2008, after over four months’ detention.
The Syrian authorities unexpectedly released Dr. Aref Dalilah on Thursday following a presidential amnesty.
A Tunisian journalist has been released eight months after he was arrested.
The family of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after being tortured
over a period of 36 hours while detained by UK troops in Basra, Iraq,
will be paid compensation by the UK Ministry of Defence.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a new legal
instrument to strengthen the protection of economic, social and
cultural rights.
Uzbekistani human rights defender Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, who was
sentenced to eight years in prison in 2006, was unexpectedly released
on Monday, 2 June.
European Court of Human Rights strongly supports allegations that Aminat Dugaeva and Kurbika Zinabdieva were abducted by Russian servicemen.
110 states have agreed a provisional text for a historic new Convention on
Cluster Munitions, which is a treaty to ban the "Use, Production and
Transfer of Cluster Munitions".
Pakistan has ratified a key UN human rights treaty and signed two others.
