Taliban should be encouraged to respect all human rights: UN rights chief
The top UN human rights official on Tuesday called on global powers and regional actors to use their influence with the Taliban to encourage respect for human rights for...
August 24, 2021
The top UN human rights official on Tuesday called on global powers and regional actors to use their influence with the Taliban to encourage respect for human rights for...
August 24, 2021
Israel’s apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel’s officially-recognised borders — which the state has never actually declared — as well as across the occupied...
August 24, 2021
Dozens of people have been killed this year in a refugee camp housing families of Daesh/ISIS terrorists in northern Syria, a senior UN official said Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. Martin Griffiths,...
August 24, 2021
It is fair to say that, ten years after their revolution, Tunisians have failed to manage their differences properly, despite the considerable freedoms they enjoy and despite having an...
August 24, 2021
Algeria’s announcement that it is hosting a ministerial meeting in the presence of the foreign ministers of Libya’s neighbouring countries at the end of the month has raised some...
August 24, 2021
Kuwait has suspended passenger transport by sea due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic but shipping operations continue, the Gulf Arab state’s ports authority said today. The Kuwait Ports...
August 24, 2021
There are growing concerns over the health and safety of British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after hackers released surveillance footage from the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, showing abuse and...
August 24, 2021
A Sudanese court today postponed until next week the trial of the defendants in the 1989 coup case due to the absence of a number of defendants and a...
August 24, 2021
I am certain that the patience of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is running out, and there is no longer any time for further procrastination over ending the...
August 24, 2021
So-called ‘Temple Mount groups’ said there has been a 60 per cent increase in the number of Jewish Israeli incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound over the past three months,...