human-rights

The Saudi authorities severely restricted freedoms of expression, association and assembly. Many human rights defenders and critics were detained and some...

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of...

An arms sales watchdog has accused the UK government of a serious failure to disclose intelligence that could save the lives of thousands of people involved...

We may never know the name of the soldier who killed Razan al-Najjar. But we do know the names of those who gave the order enabling him to kill her.

While Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continues to present himself as a reformer, peaceful human rights activism that calls for reforms continues to be...

There are full of shortcomings in their policies and rules that ultimately compromise the rights of their citizens and of human rights in general.

A feminist activist and professor of sociology says it is largely hypocritical to speak of the United States' concern for human rights, whether nationally,...

The human rights record of the United States itself remained tarnished and showed a continued tendency to deteriorate.

The death toll of Israel-Palestine Conflict is 5 Israeli to every 341 Palestinian.

Saudi Arabia has recently been severely reprimanded over its human rights violations by international organisations, mostly the Human Rights Watch, which has...

On 27 January 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump issued the executive order 13769, blocking the entry of the nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries into...

The spokesperson of the Parliament’s Civil Commission gave news of the teaching in mother tongues in the country’s schools proposal and continued: “the...

Iran’s Welfare Organization will set up round-the-clock centers in the current [Iranian calendar] year, which began on March 21, for caring autistic children...

On the occasion of 21st March, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Jane Elliot took part in an interview with Organisation...

The control and reduction of individual, family and social crises, replacement of police and judicial interventions with psychological and social...

The UN has said that it is "very likely" that the military committed grave human rights abuses in Rakhine that may amount to war crimes.

Numerous articles of the Constitution law and legal system of the Islamic Republic of Iran recognise health as a fundamental right. In this regard in the...

A mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on 14th February this year claimed seventeen lives, making the tragedy one of...

Children under 18 make up 30 percent of the population of Iran, and this statistic shows the significance of dealing with children’s rights. Children cannot...

The Citizen’s Rights Charter has been designed for the purpose of the “government’s programme and policy” which is the main subject of article 134 of the...