UN Security Council urged to demand that Israel, Hamas and Palestinian armed
groups observe an immediate truce to allow desperately needed
humanitarian assistance to the civilian population.
One of China's best-known dissidents has been under house arrest since 8 December, after he signed a campaign for political and rights reform in China, known as Charter 08.
A worker with the United Nations World Food Programme was killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Somalia, highlights the dangerous environment in which journalists and humanitarian workers in the war-torn country continue to work.
Palestinian civilians remain at risk of being killed or injured in the
Israeli air strikes and are increasingly lacking adequate medical care
food, medicines, electricity, water and other necessities.
Amnesty International has called on Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups to immediately halt the unlawful attacks carried out as part of an escalation of violence in the region.
Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), who
was abducted from her home on 3 December, has been left by her abductors at
Matapi Police Station in Harare.
Two men convicted of the murder of a trade union activist after a seriously flawed criminal investigation and a grossly
unfair trial will have their case heard by the Cambodia's Supreme Court.
The Iranian authorities have forced the closure of the Centre for the
Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Tehran, co-founded by
2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi.
New legislation introduced in India after the November attacks in Mumbai city would violate international human rights treaties, according to Amnesty International.
