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Organization for defending victims of violence will be holding an event on the international day in support of victims of torture at the Peace Museum of Tehran with the focus on the right to...

Univocally condemning unlawful destruction and pillaging of cultural heritage such as religious sites and artefacts, the United Nations Security Council adopted on 24 March, an historic resolution...

David Miller is a sociology lecturer in University of Bath, At the same time as the publication of reports on the rise in organized hate crimes committed against British Muslims following the Paris...

British missiles and jets made and sold to the Saudis are part of a war that the Government wants us to overlook

At least 26 people have been killed and more than 220 others injured in a bomb attack at Imam Sadiq (PBUH) Mosque in Kuwait City.

Critics call plan to relocate Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to 6,000-acre island "terrible"

UNIC: Tehran: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2016, urged all Governments, politicians, businesses and citizens to commit to nurturing...

“Instead of flouting his rights to freedom of expression and depriving him of his liberty they should end this campaign of harassment, immediately and unconditionally release him and drop all the...

This shocking verdict is another example of Bahrain’s flagrant disregard for the right to freedom of expression

By Index on Censorship: As the 32nd Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opened in Geneva on 13 June, Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain’s most high profile human rights defender, was arrested...

Imprisoning Nabeel Rajab simply for sharing his opinion is a flagrant violation of human rights, and an alarming sign that the Bahraini authorities will go to any length to silence criticism. Salil...

Ebtisam Al-Sayegh, monitoring and documentation officer of the Salam Organisation (Peace for Democracy and Human Rights), was arrested during a raid on her home for the second time in less than two...

These executions – the first to be carried out since 2010 - are a deeply regressive step for a country whose authorities’ have repeatedly trumpeted their commitment to human rights

Bahrain is at a tipping point. The first two months of 2017 alone saw an alarming upsurge in arbitrary and abusive force by security forces as well as the first executions since the uprising in 2011

Bahraini human rights activist and former Al Wefaq Consultive Council member Nizar Al Qari (49 years old) was arrested from his residence on Friday 5th of May & security forces raided his house...

Bahraini courts have revoked the citizenship of dozens of people as part of the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s oppressive measures and heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy...

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have blocked a major motorway in Bahrain ahead of Sunday's F1 Grand Prix in the Gulf kingdom.

A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 42 people and injured many more, officials say.

As the extreme cold weather and storms continue to sweep Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, refugee and migrant children are threatened by respiratory and other serious illnesses, according to...

Warning of the disastrous impact of an imminent attack on a western city and port and Yemen, the United Nations migration agency has called on all actors to use dialogue and talks rather than...