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Fiance of Slain Iranian Icon Neda Urges UN: “Electing Iran to Rights Council will legitimize its crimes” GENEVA, Mar. 9, 2010 – A group of prominent

Fiance of Slain Iranian Icon Neda Urges UN: “Electing Iran to Rights Council will legitimize its crimes” GENEVA, Mar. 9, 2010 – A group of prominent

“If the Iranian regime does become a member of the Human Rights Council, then it will be a slap in the face of the other

Following is a rush transcript from a speech delivered at today’s Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy, by Caspian Makan, fiance of Neda

Following is a rush transcript from a speech delivered at today’s Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy, by Caspian Makan, fiance of Neda

Among the most active users of the Internet and emergent communication technologies have been youth activists, who have harnessed new social media, video and real-time

The Geneva Summit for Human Rights opened this morning with a high-level panel on censorship and Internet freedom, a core subject of the conference. The

The Geneva Summit turned to the humanitarian challenge of Genocide and considered Sudan as a case study. The panel was moderated by Colum Murphy, President

This afternoon’s first panel, “Authoritarianism and Dissent” featured human rights defenders spanning all regions of the world. “These people are trying to affirm the right

“I was a political prisoner of the Chinese government. I saw torture and cruelty against my people,” said Rebiya Kadeer at this morning’s session of