U.S. President George Bush travels Thursday to China, where he will attend the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games Friday. Before leaving for Beijing, Mr. Bush is scheduled to give a speech in Thailand criticizing China's human rights record.

The constructive role of Azerbaijan in respecting nations' right for self-determination is vital for the resolution of the conflict of Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

While the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing has elicited a rallying cry for human rights among high-profile activists and organizations outside China, ordinary Chinese citizens are mobilizing to fight for their rights inside the rapidly changing country, according to sociologist Ching Kwan Lee, writing in the summer issue of the American Sociological Association's Contexts magazine.

Tim Bowles, the Director of International Development of Youth for Human Rights International, recently returned from West Africa where he is working to implement sweeping human rights reforms. Below are excerpts from an interview of Tim by the Scientology Press Office.

Human rights situation in Azerbaijan ‘deteriorating’ ahead of election, says PACE.

Intimate examinations, performed by medical students on anaesthetised patients, are often carried out without adequate consent from patients, but this violates their basic human rights and should not be allowed, claims an editorial in the July issue of Student BMJ.

June 12, 2008 - The Church of Scientology has attracted criticism after using a front-group to advertise its controversial founder. Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) held a presentation at a Catholic High School in Vancouver, Canada without disclosing that it was a Scientology organization. The move has backfired, instead drawing attention to the human rights abuses occurring within Scientology.

Church Of Scientology International Hosts Deceptive Conference - A Panel of Alleged Experts Unknowingly Assist Scientology's Fraudulent Claims of Hate Crime, Terrorist Activity, Identity Theft, Sexual Slavery, Terrorism and Pedophilia.

The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world and more than ever before in its history, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

The United Sikhs, an UN-affiliated international NGO has moved the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg challenging a French law, passed in March 2004, which ban wearing of conspicuous religious signs, including the Sikh turban, in public schools in France.

Pope Benedict says it is the duty of all nations to protect people from grave human rights violations and humanitarian crises.

At least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam.