violence

Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns in 2017, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according to a new analysis of data from...

"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...

Gallup found that nearly seven in 10 Americans (69%) say sexual harassment in workplaces is a "major problem", up from 50% in 1998.

According to breakdown and analysis of murders of men between 2012 and 2018, researchers have found that 8 percent of these killings were committed by the...

Seizing a civilian vessel in international waters on a humanitarian mission is a clear violation of international law.

Islamophobia, for example, in the United States cannot be separated, of course, from its political agenda in the Arab and Muslim world but it also comes from...

On 27 January 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump issued the executive order 13769, blocking the entry of the nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries into...

The UN has said that it is "very likely" that the military committed grave human rights abuses in Rakhine that may amount to war crimes.

A mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on 14th February this year claimed seventeen lives, making the tragedy one of...

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza has entered its 11th year as the crippling siege by Israel is making the living conditions of Palestinians more complicated with...

If we want to end violence against women then we must finally end our longest and greatest war: the adult war on children.

The first meeting of the juridical and Legal Advisory Council of the Vice-President for Women and Family affair was chaired by Masoumeh Ebtekar and attended...

In a message on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) saying that one out of three women...

A wonderful thing about observing and analyzing the human mind is that there is a seemingly infinite variety of phenomena to observe and analyze. I sometimes...

The Rohingyas — or at least some Rohingyas — are now being projected as terrorists, as “Jihadists” out to kill Myanmar soldiers and civilians. Myanmar...

It is not difficult to nonviolently defend a targeted population against genocide. Vitally, however, it requires a leadership that can develop a sound...

They hold up a mirror to Saudi society that seems to reflect back to them an image of ‘purity’ lost

“In political and financial terms, the Saud-Philby strategy has been an astonishing success. But it was always rooted in British and American intellectual...

On the one hand, ISIS is deeply Wahhabist. On the other hand, it is ultra radical in a different way. It could be seen essentially as a corrective movement...

The dramatic arrival of Da’ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed — and horrified — by its violence and its...