Human Rights

NGOs boycott pre-G20 meetings in Saudi Arabia over rights violations

Jan 14, 2020 09:28

Three prominent international NGOs have boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying to “whitewash its dire human rights record” by hosting such events.
Religious minority MPs blast UN rights resolution against Iran

Dec 22, 2019 09:07

Religious minority lawmakers at the Iranian parliament have condemned a UN human rights resolution against Tehran, calling it a conspiracy hatched by the US, Israel and their allies.
North Korea warns against UN human rights meeting

Dec 05, 2019 10:51

North Korea has warned the United States against holding any United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the country’s human rights situation.
How Human Rights Watch whitewashed a right-wing massacre in Bolivia

Nov 25, 2019 11:44

Since its establishment, Human Rights Watch has consistently been criticized for being an agent of U.S. foreign policy, employing former U.S. government officials in key positions, and for displaying bias against leftist governments unfriendly to the United States.
HRW slams Israel’s decision to expel its Occupied Palestine director over support for BDS

Nov 25, 2019 03:38

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has lambasted Tel Aviv’s decision to expel the rights group’s Israel director from the Occupied Territories over his purported support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Gambia takes global lead in justice for Rohingya

Nov 15, 2019 04:09

Recently, the government of The Gambia gave the 740,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh a hint of something unfamiliar to them: hope. The West African country accomplished that by filing an official complaint against Myanmar with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for violations of the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention linked to abuses against its Muslim Rohingya minority.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi sued for first time over Rohingya

Nov 14, 2019 08:56

Human rights groups in Latin America have filed a case against Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of the country’s military to hold them accountable for the state-sponsored atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
Journalist Blumenthal's arrest exposes media hypocrisy on human rights

Nov 06, 2019 14:46

The U.S., which claims to be a free society is far from free and persecutes those exercising their civil and democratic liberties to criticize the wayward policies of the administration in Washington, the latest incident in this regard being the arrest of journalist Max Blumenthal, a noted critic of American policy on Venezuela, whose plight has been ignored by the so-called mainstream media.
Intl. community turning blind eye to Iranian scientist's detention in US

Oct 23, 2019 05:20

Dr. Masoud Soleimani, a top Iranian stem cell scientist is still behind bars in the United States without trial, while the international civil society is not doing anything about it.
Family of Iranian scientist jailed in US hold presser in Tehran

Oct 23, 2019 05:15

Inhumane and hostile; this is how the worried family of renowned Iranian stem cell scientist Masoud Soleimani describe the US’s detention of the top Iranian scientist.