human-rights

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...

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.