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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...

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...

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

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...

The world was rightly outraged by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the bombs of Mohammed bin Salman and his Emirati allies are killing dozens each day in...

On 12 November, Amnesty International announced that it has withdrawn its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Aung San Suu Kyi, in light...

The United States government under President Trump has zero respect for international law and this became clear when he pulled out of the Paris climate...

“UN member states must end their deafening silence on Saudi Arabia and do their duty of scrutinizing the cruelty in the kingdom in order to prevent further...

"I am deeply concerned that it is the poor who are bearing the brunt of these actions," Idriss Jazairy said.

“Europe refuses to allow the US to be the trade policeman of the world,” said Bruno Le Maire, economy minister, in an interview in Brussels. The spat over...

“There’s no doubt that the lives of thousands of patients will be at risk,” Ahmad Ghavideh, of Iran’s haemophilia society told.