Covid-19

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.

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...

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...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has called on the Biden administration to “end US COVID-19 asylum restrictions” and restore access to asylum “for...

Like wars, climate change, and economic disruption of all kinds, sanctions do tremendous damage to vulnerable people. The difference is that economic...

Although more than 700 million vaccine doses have been administered globally, richer countries have received more than 87 per cent, and low-income countries...

“Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) is vital for our individual and collective well-being, especially now.”

Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine programme highlights the institutionalized discrimination that defines the Israeli government’s policy towards Palestinians.

"Israeli leaders can see clearly that Israel’s policies of occupation, colonization, blockade of Gaza and preventing Palestinian statehood can progress...

Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing back on the Trump administration’s plan to unveil stepped-up sanctions against Iran urging the outgoing president to...

“The pandemic has not discouraged extremists from propagating their hateful ideologies. On the contrary, they have, as is always the case in a crisis, fully...

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

U.S. News and World Report ranks Canada’s public health-care system as the most well-developed in the world. And yet, Indigenous communities are still not...

UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three...

A policy of depriving Iran of assistance in the fight against COVID-19 when neither a treatment nor a cure or vaccine exist – and when USA leads the world in...

As the world’s attention is turned to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the Palestinian people under occupation face an additional crisis — the threat of...

Despite sustained engagement by UNICEF and repeated calls to end night arrests and ill treatment and torture of Palestinian children in Israeli military...

Iranian professor Dr. Sirous Asgari, unjustly arrested by the FBI, has now come down with COVID-19 in ICE custody and is at risk of dying. Dr. Asgari is 59...

President Trump and his top aides are working behind the scenes to sideline the World Health Organization on several new fronts as they seek to shift blame...