Egypt’s government says it will lift the state of emergency and curfew, put in place after the army ousted then-president Mohamed Morsy. However, Cairo is waiting for the text of the court ruling before implementing the change, a cabinet statement said. The state of emergency allowed officers to make arrests without warrants.
Tens of thousands of people have gone missing and been “disappeared” in Mexico, some at the hand of Mexican security forces participating in the “war on drugs.” Mexico should create a comprehensive database listing people who were forcibly disappeared and investigate their cases.
There were few surprises earlier today when the UN General Assembly elected 14 new members to the UN Human Rights Council.
The Prime Minister of Mauritius, Navin Chandra Ramgoolam, said he will skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting because of Sri Lanka’s human rights record.
Australia’s leadership shouldn’t whitewash Sri Lanka’s rights record at the meeting, hosted by Sri Lanka and set to begin on Friday.
How has NSA surveillance affected writers and how they work? PEN set out to uncover this truth, and what they found was startling.
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