U.S. Demands Cambodia Action in Sex Trafficking Case
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The top U.S. diplomat in charge of  combating trafficking in people demanded on Friday that  Cambodia free 91 women and children abducted from a shelter a  day after police had rescued them from a brothel.
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The United States said Tuesday it was investigating claims by lawmakers that Hmong people living in the jungles of Laos were being persecuted and the need for granting access to them.
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The United States accused its Arab allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar on Tuesday of being among the world's worst offenders in permitting the sale of people into the sex trade and indentured servitude.
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The United States is pushing for prompt UN Security Council approval of a resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan for failing to protect civilians in Darfur.
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Thai authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday for a Canadian who is the subject of a global Interpol manhunt for the alleged sexual abuse of at least a dozen Cambodian and Vietnamese boys, some as young as 6, police said.
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A human rights group says the United States needs to need act faster and more transparently in its investigation into the abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Afghanistan.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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With the detention of Pol Pot's former deputy, Cambodia comes closer to justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge
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President Bush on Thursday punished two perennial adversaries Â Myanmar and Cuba Â for alleged "human trafficking," the forced labor and prostitution that the United States calls a modern-day form of slavery.
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Cambodia complained to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday about a damning human rights assessment of the country by Ban's special rapporteur.
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WASHINGTON &#151; A business and labor coalition, seeking to apply political pressure before the presidential election, yesterday asked the Bush administration to bring a trade case accusing China of manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.
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Five international human rights groups Tuesday urged the Cambodian government to meet with a UN special envoy and to stop denying the problems facing the country.
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The Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the United States to cooperate on judicial matters after a court indicted a U.
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SINGAPORE Aug 30 - Singapore has questioned a US government assessment that it has become a sex slave centre and asked Washington to back its charges with evidence.
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The United States on Wednesday joined a rights group in calling for a full investigation into the death of a Kurdish law student in Iran after he was detained in the western city of Sanandaj.
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By ALEXA OLESEN  BEIJING - A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.  Dr.
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International courts tackling war crimes should focus on the most serious allegations and only allow accused to represent themselves if they can fulfill the role, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.