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The escalation of the 16-year siege by Israel and continued occupation has denied Gaza’s 2.2 million population's access to food, water, fuel, utilities and...

The missile attack of 17 October 2023 against a hospital in Gaza, took place in the form of “attack against a civilian population” and in “widespread” and...

It’s a horrendous crime, and it amounts to unlawful collective punishment under international human right law. It’s a double war-crime because, the...

Meeting on the human rights situation in Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories in the 54th Session of the Human Rights Council held.

Studies on the immigration and asylum-seeking policies in Britain which is the government’s general approach towards refugees has little deterring effect and...

The report goes on, the Bahrain Human Rights Assembly declared that the authorities also attacked 13 locations where Ashura gatherings were and carried out...

20 July 2023 Reports that migrants and asylum seekers, including children, have been pushed back by Texas officials, stranded in sweltering heat, and wounded...

On a regular basis the ODVV reviews and monitors the programmes and adoptions of the Human Rights Council and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The...

Saudi Arabia violates the rights of children under legal age for reasons such as race, religion or economic status through secretive executions of children,...

The Salam for Democracy and Human Rights NGO on 17 June 2023 in a released report entitled “Saasa Bin Sohan Mosque in Bahrain is deliberately being destroyed...

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.