Human Rights

Israel strikes residential buildings in Gaza, leaving over 100 people homeless

Aug 06, 2022 12:27

Israeli warplanes have struck two residential buildings in Gaza City, displacing the occupants and injuring more than a dozen people.
Driver rams into Native American parade in US city, injuries at least 15

Aug 06, 2022 10:22

A New Mexico man driving under the influence has rammed into a parade celebrating Native American culture in the western part of the US state, leaving at least 15 people injured.
President Raeisi slams Israeli aggression, hails Gazans’ resistance

Aug 06, 2022 07:49

President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has slammed the Israeli regime’s aggression and hailed resistance of Palestinians in Gaza that "can accelerate the overthrow of the child-killing regime.”
Iran: Palestinians reserve right to respond to Israel's terrorist moves

Aug 06, 2022 00:50

Iran has strongly condemned the brutal attack of the "apartheid Israeli regime" on Gaza and the martyrdom of defenseless people and a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad movement, saying the Palestinian people and groups have the right to respond to Tel Aviv's terrorist moves.
Saudi-led coalition seizes another ship day after extension of UN-brokered truce

Aug 05, 2022 06:12

The Saudi-led coalition, which has been waging a devastating war on Yemen since 2015, has impounded yet another oil tanker carrying thousands of tons of fuel for the war-torn country in violation of a UN-brokered truce, a day after it was extended.
US police have already killed over 700 people in 2022, on track to break record

Aug 04, 2022 07:30

US police have killed more people through the first seven months of the year than they have any other year on record, a study shows, pointing out Black people are three times as likely as white people to get killed by police.
Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights holds conference on Saudi blockade

Jul 30, 2022 11:42

Under the title "Blockade on Yemen, slow killing of civilians under the UN cover", Yemen's Ministry of Human Rights has held a press conference in Yemen's capital Sana'a to highlight the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Saudi blockade on Yemen despite the UN brokered truce.
UN committee expresses concern over UAE torture of Yemenis

Jul 30, 2022 10:40

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has voiced concern over the torture and ill-treatment of Yemenis by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) armed forces, state security agencies, and on-state armed groups, calling for a "viable pathway” through which victims can seek justice.
Pope admits treatment of Canada Indigenous was genocide

Jul 30, 2022 07:33

Head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis has finally conceded that the treatment of Indigenous people in Catholic-run boarding schools in Canada amounted to a genocide following his six-day tour of the country.
Attacks by racist mob force Spanish Gypsy people to flee homes

Jul 29, 2022 01:54

Dozens of Gypsy people have been forced to abandon their homes in a small Andalucían town when a killing triggered a wave of racist violence