ODVV interview: Muslim Ban is a wake-up call to...
Trump has long history of racist behavior. You can trace the pattern easily, from lawsuits leveled at him by the Housing of Justice in the 1970s for turning...
United-States
U.S. sanctions on Iran are an act of war
The recent U.S. unilateral financial sanctions are cutting off Iranian banks from the international banking system, thereby making import of medicine and...
The U.S. is complicit in war crimes in Yemen
The Trump administration argues that its partnership with Saudi Arabia helps reduce civilian killings in Yemen. But State Department investigators and other...
The So-Called War on Terrorism, Failure or...
Critics assert that the term "war" is not appropriate in this context since terror is not an identifiable enemy and it is unlikely that international...
ODVV interview: Boycott, Divestment and...
Almost every major Western nation has a sizeable BDS movement. There are strong BDS campaigns in Africa and South America. The United States has repeatedly...
Domestic violence against women in France
In 2019, the number of women killed by their partner or ex-partner in France rose by a fifth. There were more than 200,000 reports of women being abused at...
A brief look at human rights violations: (part...
More than 90 per cent of racism complaints against Metropolitan Police officers and staff have resulted in no further action being taken.
The US failed to assess civilian deaths when it...
The United States State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found the administration of President Donald Trump skirted laws regulating US...
Sanctions are bringing suffering and death
A group of independent human rights experts at the United Nations have called on countries to lift -or at the very least, ease - sanctions to allow affected...
ODVV interview: Islamophobia is not a recent...
The brick and mortar of the American corporate is cemented with the blood and tears of Black Americans. Racism is built into every system and cannot be...
ODVV interview: Systemic racism in the US...
"All American citizens do not equally encounter police violence and extra-judicial killings. Many police officers around the country are never prosecuted for...
US Continuous Unilateralism: Sanctions on ICC’s...
The Trump administration’s announced action against the International Criminal Court (ICC) escalates its efforts to thwart justice for victims of serious...
George Floyd’s Death and Systemic Racism in the US
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...
Iranian Civil Society’s Letter to the UN SG on...
More than 300 non-governmental organizations refer to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Iran and the death of citizens as well as a number of doctors,...
Prisoners in OPT and the US fear for their...
Prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers should also take steps to ensure they are appropriately coordinating with public health departments and...
Which is a more serious threat in the US, Gun...
The United States accounts for just 4% of the world’s population but 35% of global firearm suicides and 9% of global firearm homicides. 1,500 children are...
Business enterprises involved in the activities...
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 U.S. Punitive Policies Undercut Rights
The Trump administration is cruelly punishing migrants and eviscerating the right to seek asylum in the United States, Human Rights Watch said.
CIA torture in 'black sites'
“I know torture’s a dirty word,”“I’ll tell you what, judge, I’m not going to sanitize this for their concerns.”
Rejections on the Deal of the Century
Most countries and organizations around the world have rejected US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and reiterated that the Israeli-Palestinian...