Afro-Cuban dissident Cuesta Morua (right) can’t understand why some American progressives who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. or identify with him today can support a regime that would never permit a similar movement, writes The Washington Post’s Harold …
US Secretary of State John Kerry should press Vietnam’s government to free a leading human rights defender, when he attends the ASEAN conference later this month, says a broad coalition of NGOs.
In an open letter released today…
President Vladimir Putin said today that Russia’s law on non-governmental organizations is more liberal than similar provisions in other countries, but said he may recommend changes to a controversial measure requiring foreign-funded NGOs to register as ‘foreign agents’, AFP …
While the outside world is focused on the implications of Iran’s presidential election for the regime’s nuclear program, for the average Iranian voter the key is its impact on her pocketbook, says a leading dissident.
“Iran’s industrial workers, teachers, nurses, …
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) invites organizations to submit proposals for projects that promote democracy and human rights in Cuba.
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Members of the House of Representatives believe that there is “enough support in Congress to slow, if not halt entirely, economic aid to Egypt” over the conviction of 43 pro-democracy activists, McClatchy reports.
Meanwhile, the ruling Muslim Brotherhood…
Turkey’s demonstrators have claimed affinity with the pro-democracy protesters of Egypt’s Tahrir Square and taken to calling the country’s largest city “Resistanbul.”
“But Taksim was never Tahrir, let alone Tiananmen, because Turkey is not a dictatorship,” says a prominent …
“With Iran’s conservative camp divided, reformists were confident of a good showing by the moderate cleric they back in Friday’s presidential vote as they seek to avenge the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years ago,” AFP’s Farhad Pouladi reports…
An Egyptian criminal court’s sentencing of 43 NGO workers was “a familiar scenario” for human rights groups under Hosni Mubarak, says a prominent advocate, “when activists regularly criticized the roundup of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and their prosecution on …
“Reformists led by ex-president Mohammad Khatami have rallied behind the sole moderate candidate in Friday’s presidential election, as they seek to loosen the conservative grip on power in Iran,” Agence France Presse reports:
Khatami urged voters to support …