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On 20 June 2023 a number of UN special rapporteurs released a statement calling on the United Kingdom to take immediate action to suspend the application of...

Prisons and residential schools were two sides of the same coin. Two federal institutions with the same goal, albeit one less directly focused on Indigenous...

The ODVV regularly reviews the Human Rights Council and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights programmes and adoptions. The following content is...

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...

In a 1 July 2023 report, Middle East Eye highlights the widespread public rage and the arrest of more than 1300 people in reaction to French police shooting...

On 14 July the Human Rights Council held its 53rd ordinary Session and ended following the adoption of 30 resolutions and holding an emergency session.

Governmental corruption in Bahrain is left unchecked, and lack of political will is one of the important problem in boosting effective prevention of...

Through Guantanamo, the US government disregards international law and has abused the rights of individuals who are still in detention there.

The United States has a large degree of economic inequality. Twenty percent of low-income families get only 3.8 percent of the country’s income and one fifth...

Two Bahraini Shia men were executed following a very severe unfair trial in Saudi Arabia on terror related crimes.

Unilateral sanctions imposed by the US upon various countries are a blatant violation of human rights. We know from the experiences of so many countries that...

A lot of people don’t realize the foundational role that children’s rights played in advancing civilization over this past century. The fact that the 1989...

To be sure, the G20 countries are primarily responsible for the climate change emergency. And they also have relatively more resources available to address...

despite President Biden’s gestures appealing to the Muslim community such as reinstating the Eid celebration at the White House, revoking the executive order...

Bahrain withdrew from the October election of the United Nations Human Rights Council following mounting criticism from several member states over its human...

130 human rights organizations and bodies issued a joint statement, calling on Pope Francis to adopt an initiative to urge the Bahraini authorities to end...

About two weeks ago, the Holy See Press Office announced the schedule of the Supreme Pontiff’s visit to Bahrain, to participate in the conclusion of the...

regrettably, many Afghan refugees do not enjoy their rights under international law even in the western countries. They continue to face violence,...

The engrained policies in the United States have disproportionately harmed non-white racial groups, especially Black Americans, including those leading to...

Over the last few years, several civil society organizations in France, particularly those defending the civil rights of Muslims, have been dissolved under...