human-rights

Use of the weapons has infuriated many anti-government protesters who accuse the police of unnecessary violence that has exacerbated tensions since the...

Some scholars say regardless of the tolerant face of the country and government’s open arms for the immigrants to accept and assimilate them, Islamophobia...

UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia rose from £1.8bn in the three years prior to the war in 2015, to £3.6bn over the next three years. And there is no controls...

European leaders must urgently act to fix a system which deters states from assisting refugees and migrants in peril at sea, said Amnesty International.

The U.S. President’s unilateralism and his adventurousness was not welcomed other than by a couple of countries. Israel and Saudi Arabia were too excited to...

President Trump’s decision to upend the Iran deal and impose new sanctions on Iran met opposition from Washington’s European allies and marked a serious rift...

The military prison at Guantánamo Bay remains a stain on the human rights record of the United States and continues to present site for ongoing violations as...

The arrest, detention and imprisonment of individuals for the exercise of their fundamental human rights is in violation of Bahrain’s obligations under the...

"Whether it takes the shape of daily forms of racism and discrimination or more violent forms, Islamophobia is a violation of human rights and a threat to...

As UNESCO Says Its Only Wish for 2019 is World Peace, US and Israel Officially Ditch UN Body.

The authorities have three variations in their reaction to torture: "nothing is happening, what is happening is something else, and what is happening is...

Yemen's warring sides agreed at peace talks in Sweden this month on the ceasefire to halt a devastating offensive by government forces and the coalition...

U.S. policies do not always respect human rights and the government also fails to protect key human rights domestically, especially economic and social rights.

Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and its regime is not publicly accountable for its policies, domestically or internationally.

The beleaguered Gaza Strip is in a humanitarian crisis and the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which run afoul of the UN Security Council Resolution...

Executions and torture; the crackdown on activists, journalists and academics; the murder of a dissident journalist in a consulate abroad; the escalating...

Health experts and human rights campaigners said the forced sterilizations, which the United Nations considers a form of torture, are symptomatic of the...

The core idea of Richard Nephew’s book “The Art of Sanctions ” is that sanctions are designed to target the well-being, happiness and satisfaction of all...

The negative effects of sanctions on living and important rights such as the right to life and healthy living of citizens, results in the raising of...

The sanctions are primarily focused on financial measures but when you make it difficult to finance trade, it means that the overall sanctions have an effect...