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In addition to violation of international law, UCMs were also designed to deprive people from all human rights including the right to life and the right to...

The international community has authorised the United Nations to adopt coercive economic measures in special circumstances where there is a threat against...

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

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...

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...

Zahra is a local Mazandarani girl born in 1986.

Islamophobia is a negative attitude towards Islam and Muslims borne of prejudice and hatred towards the religion and its followers manifested in the speech...

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 has committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law not only in neighboring countries like Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain but inside...

Use of the weapons has infuriated many anti-government protesters who accuse the police of unnecessary violence that has exacerbated tensions since the...

Governments worldwide should impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel following the country’s disproportionate response to mass demonstrations along the...

While the United Arab Emirates strives to build an image of a modern and liberal state, human rights violations in the country continue to be ignored or...

political and social media activists continued to be targeted, both by the security forces and by the judiciary in Bahrain.

The Saudi authorities severely restricted freedoms of expression, association and assembly. Many human rights defenders and critics were detained and some...

There are full of shortcomings in their policies and rules that ultimately compromise the rights of their citizens and of human rights in general.

Less than a month ago some incidents have occurred in the UK that shows human rights for all is still a myth in a country which claims to be respectful to...

Systemic injustice has intensified and political repression targeting dissidents, human rights defenders, clerics and independent civil society have...

levels of child food poverty in the UK – a country with the world’s fifth largest economy, is shocking. Also British women and children captured after the...

More than 90 per cent of racism complaints against Metropolitan Police officers and staff have resulted in no further action being taken.

The UAE targets political opponents and activists, and criminalizes fundamental freedoms and basic human rights.