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.

Large protests against Chinese human rights policies have disrupted the Olympic torch relay in Paris, forcing police to extinguish the symbolic flame and transport it by bus for part of the route.

The United Nations human rights expert on Burma says the Burmese government's repressive actions do not reflect its pledge to make democratic reforms.

Disturbing video of sadistic prison brutality has emerged in Russia. Authorities there do not dispute the images, but claim they are from the early 1990s. Russian human-rights activists say the violence occurred more recently.

The United Nations' top human rights official is quitting in few months. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that she will step down at the end of her current four-year term on June 30.