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The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, addressing a special session of the Human Rights Council Friday (10/28/2016) called on all the member states to "speak with one...

‘In Europe there are a lot of voices challenging very fundamentals of human rights’

Growing anger after some children are placed in foster care – and even a detention centre – because background checks on family members have not been carried out

The Saudi Air Force is being trained by the British Government amid accusations that it is carrying out atrocities in neighbouring Yemen, it has emerged.

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sana’a at dawn on Sunday (23 October 2016), hours after a three-day truce in Yemen's war expired, residents in the capital said.

ODVV Holds Technical Sitting on The Necessity of Iran to be Active in the Field of International Criminal Justice

The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen announced a plan for the resumption of a comprehensive cessation of hostilities in the war-torn Gulf nation.

A few days ago, Ryan Goodman announced on Twitter that we should expect “a challenge to (some) critics of Defense Department support to Saudi Arabia.”

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on International Day for Rural Women, 15 October 2016, called for helping rural women to thrive, and to access the support and...

“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I’ve seen, if they’d watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the...

An airstrike on Saturday hit a funeral hall packed with thousands of mourners in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and local health officials indicate that over 140 people were killed and more than 525...

Fighter jets from a Saudi-led military coalition repeatedly bombed a crowded reception hall in Sana where mourners were gathered after a funeral on Saturday, killing more than 100 people and...

Technical Sitting on: The Necessity of Iran to be Active in the Field of International Criminal Justice

UN rights expert urges States and businesses to prevent childhood exposure to toxics and pollution

Protest movement seeks to end Saudi Arabia law requiring women have permission of a male guardian to travel, marry or do other fundamental tasks

On 22 September 2016, the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) organised a conference at the United Nations premises of Geneva, Switzerland.

Public letter of a group of American and European academicians and media commentators to UNSG on Bahrain and the situation of the popular leader Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The International Movement for a Just World has planned to organize a seminar entitled “World Beyond War: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and its Implications on Security in The ASEAN Region”.

The technical sitting on the Evaluation of the Functionality of the UN in the Prevention of Human rights Violations, with a stress on Israel and Saudi Arabia was held by the ODVV.

More than 300 people have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea after migrant boats capsized off the coast of Libya.