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Why is Biden selling weapons to a country that helped make Yemen a ‘hell hole’?
May 09, 2021 08:39The Biden administration’s recent announcement giving a green light to a massive $23 billion weapons sale to the United Arab Emirates makes a mockery of its commitment to put human rights at the forefront of its foreign policy.
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Nasrallah lauds Palestinians for resisting Israeli aggression in al-Quds
Apr 29, 2021 06:43Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, has lauded the Palestinians in al-Quds for their resistance against the Israeli forces’ aggression.
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HRW concludes Zionist entity committing crime of apartheid against Palestinians
Apr 27, 2021 07:38Human Rights Watch has concluded that the illegal Zionist entity is committing the crimes against humanity of "apartheid and persecution" against Palestinians, and said it plans to forward its findings to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for due action.
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'People are not starving, they are being starved': Over 250 groups demand rich nations provide urgent food assistance
Apr 25, 2021 13:58Over 250 international organizations are demanding urgent action from global governments to address the hunger and famine faced by hundreds of millions—a crisis the groups said is driven largely by policy choices including ignored appeals for a global ceasefire and humanitarian funding.
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Iran’s top rights official slams US police brutality, justice system
Apr 19, 2021 09:07The secretary of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights has denounced police brutality in the US, primarily targeting African Americans, asking whether justice has been served with regard to any of the high-profile killings.
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Major UK charity accepts ‘dirty money’ linked to human rights violations in Palestine
Apr 16, 2021 13:32A British children’s charity is accepting money made from human rights violations in Palestine. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has taken more than £5 million (approximately $6.9 million) from bulldozer manufacturer JCB.
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Saudi Arabia executes 3 soldiers for collusion with unnamed enemy
Apr 11, 2021 03:11Saudi Arabia has executed three members of its military forces for “high treason” over accusations of colluding with an unspecified enemy.
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Iran: Amnesty must report hardships of Iranians under illegal sanctions
Apr 09, 2021 13:06Iran’s mission to the European Union has called on Amnesty International to compile a report about the harmful impact of illegal American sanctions on the livelihoods of Iranians, especially at a time when the country is grappling with a deadly coronavirus outbreak.
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UK government-backed report claiming British racism in decline, ironically demonstrates opposite
Apr 08, 2021 03:52Over the last few years, Islamophobia, something the current British prime minister himself has been accused of, anti-Black systemic racism evidenced with the Windrush scandal, and anti-immigrant sentiment, have continually surfaced and arguably grown, amid a general growing climate of hostility in Britain in the street within right wing movements and political policy at the heart of the government’s ‘hostile environment’.
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Bahraini political prisoner attains martyrdom of deliberate medical negligence: Al-Wefaq
Apr 07, 2021 03:24Bahrain’s main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says a Bahraini political dissident has passed away in a detention center after prison services denied him medical aid, amid reports of alarming conditions of confinement in the kingdom in light of the coronavirus pandemic.