human-rights

The experts urged governments to ensure that adequately staffed and equipped child protection services and law enforcement are available and accessible to...

"Sanctioned countries are especially hard-hit as they cannot use their revenues to purchase imports of equipment, medicines, antiviral and food from global...

Promises that Germany would be highly selective about weapons exports to avoid complicity in atrocities in Yemen are "nothing but hot air." Since 2019,...

“Migration status is irrelevant to every human being’s dignity and their right to live. Instead of putting people’s health at increased risk, governments...

As coronavirus cases explode in Iran, U.S. sanctions hinder its access to drugs and medical equipment.

Responding to an epidemic is not a question of balancing public health and human rights but rather that a successful and effective response requires us to...

Prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers should also take steps to ensure they are appropriately coordinating with public health departments and...

- The UAE authorities continue to violate the rights of prisoners of conscience inside prisons through arbitrary punitive action and degrading treatment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that criminals are taking advantage of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Syrian war has killed up to 400,000 people so far and displaced much more. Now this is the largest exodus of people in Syria's nine-year long war.

Bahrain’s human rights crisis has only worsened. The authorities have demonstrated a zero-tolerance policy for any free and independent political thought,...

After lengthy delays, the United Nations finally published a database of businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the...

The Trump administration is cruelly punishing migrants and eviscerating the right to seek asylum in the United States, Human Rights Watch said.

“I know torture’s a dirty word,”“I’ll tell you what, judge, I’m not going to sanitize this for their concerns.”

"I feel my friend's pain and my pain. I don't feel anything else".12-year-old Yemeni boy in severe distress following deadly school bus attack in Saada.

Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education Karim Hemmati said that Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement cannot help solve the problem of US sanctions...

Most countries and organizations around the world have rejected US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and reiterated that the Israeli-Palestinian...

It is clear from studies that children who experience violence are at higher risk for mental illness, drug use, alcohol use and obesity, but also for chronic...

The UK sells billions of pounds-worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia that are being used as part of a brutal war in Yemen.

"Most terrorist attacks or murders like school shootings are by American citizens not by immigrants. Trump and the nationalists are using the immigration...