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The global village today has gradually removed national, geographical and continental borders and the advancing technology has given the present world an...

Human trafficking is a crime that exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes including forced labour and sex. Human trafficking involves...

122 countries at the UN voted last July in a favor of a treaty that bans nuclear bombs, a move that a specialist in nuclear security believes would not work.

In today’s global conditions where international positions are directed to where nations take their destiny in their own hands, governments with autocratic...

A pervasive perception in US policy circles and among US allies is that Iran seeks hegemony in the Middle East. Israel and other regional states often claim...

Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has condemned torture from the...

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

Before its third UPR review, the United Kingdom (UK) sought to change its position from support to note on a number of 2nd cycle recommendations.

Sand and dust storms (SDS) usually occur when strong winds lift large amounts of sand and dust from bare, dry soil into the atmosphere.

It was 9 on a hot summer morning in 2015 when the airstrike destroyed Ashwaq’s home, killing her four children as they ate breakfast. It was my first case in...

An Interview with Gholamali Khoshroo, Iran Permanent Representative at the UN

Saudi Arabia is demolishing centuries-old homes in a Shiite town, leveling a historic district that officials say has become a hideout for local militants....

From this article, not only the presidency of women has no conflicts with Sharia Laws, but according to article 115 of the constitution of the Islamic...

Countless underage girls around the world are being forced to work long, punishing hours. They’re cooking, cleaning, and caring for young children. They’re...

The United States and Saudi Arabia signed a 110 billion dollar arms agreement recently. This agreement was finalised in the recent US president’s first visit...

In April 2017, on the pretext of a chemical attack in Khan Sheykhoon, on the orders of US president Donald Trump, the US military launched 59 Tomahawk...

A wide range of acts from the massacre of civilians, women and children in particular to strikes against religious, historic and medical places are in the...

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...