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The affluent countries should work on making the rules of the world economy fairer for the poorer countries: on removing trade barriers to their exports, on...

Some governments resist the transition to a clean economy either because the costs of switching to renewable sources of energy are prohibitively high –...

There are a number of different issues that overlap on the Rohingya crisis. The international community has been slow in responding. Although there was...

more than 16,000 Palestinians have lost their lives as a result of continuous and deadly Israeli attacks. The main victims of this war are women and...

"I can say the recent materials clearly show that even the nationals and companies of countries which impose unilateral sanctions also become affected...

Many observers notice a correlation between President Trump’s defamation of immigrants and minorities and the spike of intolerance and prejudice towards the...

122 countries at the UN voted last July in a favor of a treaty that bans nuclear bombs, a move that a specialist in nuclear security believes would not work.

Nowruz marks the first day of spring and is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on 21 March. It is celebrated as...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has blacklisted shares in British security company G4S because of the risk of human rights violations against its workforce in...

Unfortunately, activists do not always understand why nonviolence is so powerful and they design 'direct actions' that are virtually powerless.

Unlawful “annexation” plan promotes ‘law of the jungle’ and must be stopped. Annexation is the claim to acquire territory by force and is a flagrant...

Bahrain’s human rights crisis has only worsened. The authorities have demonstrated a zero-tolerance policy for any free and independent political thought,...

It is not just in Niger that anti-French and anti-Western sentiments have peaked. In three other states, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea such sentiments have...

On Saturday 17 October following the shooting of an IDF soldier at a bus station in the city of Beer Sheva in Israel, 29 year old Abtom Zarhom an Eritrean...

Following the ratification of legislation by the Islamic Parliament regarding amendment of the Anti-Narcotics law, which was on 19 October by the Guardian...

The issue of the execution of individuals under 18 has always been a challenging human rights issue in Iran. In the recent report of the UN Special...

Children under 18 make up 30 percent of the population of Iran, and this statistic shows the significance of dealing with children’s rights. Children cannot...

Richard Murphy, the former U.S. ambassador to Damascus, rejects the view that Donald Trump reacted hastily and impulsively to alleged chemical weapons attack...

In its latest published figures in December 2017, the Cultural-Social Deputy of Tehran Municipality announced that 14 thousand aid seekers are being covered...

Between 2001 and 2017, more Americans have been killed in attacks by homegrown right-wing extremists with no connection to Islam than by Muslim terrorists or...