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The United Nations human rights chief has called for an independent, international investigation into the allegations of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in...

Joint statement - Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC/MSF) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are extremely concerned about the severe damage caused by recent...

A Group of Human Rights NGOs , Writing a Letter, Expressing Worries about the Situation in Yemen:

ODVV Holds a Sitting in "Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights Violations" in Geneva

We call on Aung San Suu Kyi to meet the Rohingya personally in Rakhine state as well as in Cox’s Bazar to talk to those who have fled, as well as those who have stayed, as she says the Myanmar...

The public flogging of jailed blogger Raif Badawi is now “sure” to resume after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld his sentence at the weekend, his wife has told The Independent.

Unilateral coercive measures are contrary to international documents including UN General Assembly Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation...

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

The ODVV holds a sidelines panel on the Human Rights Situation in Yemen, in the ongoing 30th Session of the Human Rights Council.

Civilians from minority ethnic groups suffer appalling violations and abuses, including war crimes, at the hands of Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups in the country’s Kachin and northern...

The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) today expressed concern by the continued and increasing use of administrative detention by Israeli authorities against Palestinians, who are being...

In just three weeks, the violence in Yemen has had devastating humanitarian consequences: the number of food insecure people has increased from 10.6 million people to 12 million; at least 150,000...

ODVV’s representatives have had active presence in the 29th session of human rights council which began on the 15th of June, 2015.