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...
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...
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...
The authorities have three variations in their reaction to torture: "nothing is happening, what is happening is something else, and what is happening is...
The United States has reinstated all the sanctions that Iran was relieved from by virtue of the JCPOA and introduced new punitive measures, engendering a...
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.
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...
Iran has exercised remarkable patience while it waits for Europe to devise its special purpose vehicle (SPV), a new entity intended to help Iran blunt the...
Jewish people have called Iran home for nearly 3,000 years. Within Iran, many of the estimated 15,000 Jews say they're safe and happy living in the Islamic...
The coming to power of Donald Trump in the United States, Brexit in the United Kingdom and the inability of the international community to address the global...
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...