South Korea President Lee Myung-bak's administration is calling for improvement in North Korea's human rights situation and pledging cooperation with the United Nations on the issue. The move is a departure from previous administrations, which kept silent on North Korean human rights abuses to avoid irritating Pyongyang. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports.

An original copy of the Magna Carta is back at the U.S. National Archives in Washington.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says he has raised human rights in talks with Chinese officials this week, but adds that sensitive issues should not interfere with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The first President of the recently-formed United Nations Human Rights Council, and Mexican Ambassador to the UN, Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora, is to give the Human Rights Centre's 25th Anniversary Public Lecture at the University of Essex.

Australian scientific researchers are calling for laws to protect their freedom to participate in public debate as well as encouragement and rewards from their institutions to do so, say experts.

A leading human rights group has denounced what it says is a Russian crackdown on freedoms of assembly and expression ahead of Sunday's presidential election.

An enterprising graduate has used her expertise in forensic archaeology to launch a Cardiff-based management consultancy for the legal profession.

The Swedish-Canadian Lundin Mining company is being blasted by human rights organizations for its operations in Kongo-Kinsasha - with critics claming that whole villages have been moved away from mining sites.

This year’s Olof Palme Prize has been awarded to Iranian women’s rights campaigner Parvin Ardalan.

The social authorities are not living up to their goal to protect children from witnessing their parents being evicted.

Americans' right to privacy has been an evolving concept. The U.S. Constitution's initial ten amendments that we call the Bill of Rights guaranteed only that the government could not quarter soldiers in people's residences and that homes could not be unreasonably searched. Much later, after many court cases, the notion of privacy expanded to include a certain expectation of solitude at home, free from outside prying.

An expert in the laws protecting human rights defenders will visit the University this week. Hina Jilani, a leading lawyer in Pakistan and UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, will address staff and students in a special lecture on Thursday 14 February, hosted by the Human Rights Law Centre.