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Typical conditions placed on women human rights defenders released from prison have included bans on travelling abroad, bans on working, and severe...

Despite the fact that some British authorities believe their country is the most popular destination for those immigrants, the UK receives less than half of...

Millions of Afghans have fled their country over the past few decades, and Iran as a neighboring country has been generous to host many of them.

Bahrain uses academic partnerships to hide its gross human rights abuses.

"Settler violence has always been an extremely disturbing feature of the Israeli occupation, but in 2021, we are witnessing the highest recorded levels of...

Governments must prioritize children. Too often, governments speak of caring for children, but their budgets and policy priorities do not reflect that.

Britain’s early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history, with ministers and scientists taking a...

International law is not being neglected in relation to Israeli crimes against humanity and war crimes in Palestine, it is being ignored, by Israel of course...

Suicide is a major national public health issue in the United States. The country has one of the highest suicide rates among wealthy nations. Reports...

The United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, warned that by the end of 2021, the humanitarian crisis could displace half a million more Afghans as it called on...

The UN’s main human rights body has overwhelmingly voted to recognise the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right, and...

Recently, a Dutch court ruled that police can use ethnicity as one of the criteria for selecting people for checks at the border, a legal defeat that rights...

Racism and injustice express themselves in many ways, and one of those ways is certainly environmental. Part of the solution to this problem lies in the...

More than 50 anti-war groups urge US lawmakers to use annual defence policy bill to end support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.

Over the years, the UAE has led a campaign of suppression against human rights activists and aid workers, arresting and forcibly disappearing them before...

Rather than using law enforcement means to address the horrible crimes of September 11, the Bush administration declared a “global war on terror” that...

The affluent countries should work on making the rules of the world economy fairer for the poorer countries: on removing trade barriers to their exports, on...

Canadian law bans the sale of weapons where there is a risk they will be misused. Saudi forces are fighting in the civil war in Yemen, and are the chief...

“We are deeply concerned that highly sophisticated intrusive tools are being used to monitor, intimidate and silence human rights defenders, journalists and...

Afghans at heightened risk of persecution from advancing Taliban forces are in urgent need of evacuation and international protection abroad.