human-rights

Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. Despite the absolute prohibition of torture under...

I believe education has a crucial role to play in helping to bridge racial and religious divides. I cannot stress the importance of religious education as a...

Unlawful “annexation” plan promotes ‘law of the jungle’ and must be stopped. Annexation is the claim to acquire territory by force and is a flagrant...

"All American citizens do not equally encounter police violence and extra-judicial killings. Many police officers around the country are never prosecuted for...

"I doubt that governments are taking the human rights impacts of climate change as seriously as they should. In terms of investment, I think much financial...

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...

The Trump administration’s announced action against the International Criminal Court (ICC) escalates its efforts to thwart justice for victims of serious...

It is really sad to see that recent welfare reforms have pushed more children into poverty in a rich country like the UK. We are also concerned about...

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...

More than 150 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, most U.S. adults say the legacy of slavery continues to have an impact...

Around 80 per cent of the Yemeni population need humanitarian assistance.More than half of Yemen’s hospitals and clinics have been destroyed or closed, the...

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...

Saudi Arabia’s ‘reform drive’ cannot be considered credible as long as peaceful activists are still being targeted for their work.

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...

"Clearly Israel and its supporters in the United States are trying to conflate BDS with anti-Semitism, but I believe this unfounded slander is already in the...

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...

The pandemic does not justify a blanket policy of turning away boats in distress, risking the right to life of those on board.

While we attempt to separate us from American politics and ways of life, we are unmistakably tied to them ideologically and culturally. The Islamophobia...

"Racism saturates the UK; from the everyday interactions in schools, factories and on the street, through to how legislation is framed and enacted. Crude...