Rights group says a global Torture-Free Trade treaty is urgently needed to regulate the trade in policing equipment.

Rights group says a global Torture-Free Trade treaty is urgently needed to regulate the trade in policing equipment.
Nearly 65 percent of the hate crimes were based on race and ethnicity, a report by the US security service says.
Advocates say fight continues despite rejection of new constitution that would have enshrined reproductive rights.
The city’s school board has become the first to recognise caste discrimination. All of Canada must follow.
Toronto’s school board, the largest in Canada, joins a push to ban discrimination based on caste in North America.
Participants say poor living conditions and wages of $1 a day have pushed them to launch the weeks-long protest.
Ilyasah Shabazz says that she plans to sue the NYPD and the FBI, among others, for $100m in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Advocacy groups say ‘common sense’ bill would help protect incarcerated people’s right to religious freedom, expression.
A Seattle City Council resolution against caste discrimination is an important step in this journey.
Darryl Tyree Williams, an African American, told police he had a heart problem during an arrest. They tased him anyway.
Bishop Roland Alvarez was sentenced to 26 years in prison after refusing to join other political prisoners in exile.
Picked up in a dawn raid two years ago, the activists and politicians are charged over an unofficial primary.
Local groups call for greater transparency and accountability following the death of the 29-year-old US father.
Five police officers involved in the arrest were fired after an internal probe concluded they used excessive force.