Human Rights

Kenyans sue UK government over colonial-era theft, torture

Aug 23, 2022 12:26

A group of Kenyans have filed a lawsuit against the British government at the European Court of Human Rights over colonial-era land theft, torture and mistreatment of their forefathers.
Iran FM urges Sweden to respect ‘basic rights’ of wrongfully-jailed national

Aug 22, 2022 01:23

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian urges Sweden to respect the "basic rights" of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian national who has been wrongfully jailed and convicted by Stockholm.
Mexico says disappearance of 43 students in 2014 was a 'state crime'

Aug 19, 2022 07:24

In yet another damning assessment of the previous administration's complicity in gross human rights abuses, Mexican authorities have called the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 a “state crime”, which was scandalously covered up by the government.
Zionists raid offices of several Palestinian rights groups, civil society organizations in West Bank

Aug 18, 2022 15:10

The Israeli regime’s forces have stormed the headquarters of several Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations in the occupied West Bank, in yet another crackdown on rights groups in the Palestinian territories.
Mali accuses France of arming terrorists, seeks emergency UN meeting

Aug 18, 2022 08:33

Mali has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting as the country has accused France of violating its airspace and delivering weapons to armed groups, an attempt considered to destabilize the West African country.
Iran urges West to stop denying truth about Israeli apartheid, atrocities

Aug 18, 2022 05:49

Foreign Ministry has reiterated that Israel is an apartheid regime, urging Western states to defend Palestinians’ rights instead of denying realities about the regime’s crimes.
Medical terrorism of US, allies continues to take toll on Iranian EB patients

Aug 18, 2022 04:40

A Paris-based intergovernmental organization has scandalously turned down a petition against a Swedish pharma company lodged on behalf of Iranians who suffer from a potentially fatal skin disease.
UN: It’s still unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar

Aug 18, 2022 01:53

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says conditions are not suitable yet for the Rohingya Muslim refugees to return to Myanmar.
Intl. rights group warns Saudi executions could hit record high this year

Aug 17, 2022 10:46

An international human rights organization has expressed grave concern over the alarming surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in the first half of the current year, saying the figure is almost twice the number during all of last year.
Homeless population exploding in Canadian cities

Aug 13, 2022 17:59

Canadian officials have requested the government's help to clean up the cities' neighborhoods where homeless people have set up encampments.