More than 1,000 Canadian artists and workers in the culture sector have signed an open letter in solidarity with Palestinians living under Israel's brutal military occupation. In another indication...

Green energy may be negatively impacting human rights with solar panels from China being made with forced labour from Uyghur concentration camps, Anadolu Agency reports. The panels are manufactured...

The family of an Egyptian asylum seeker facing deportation from Canada are being intimidated after a Canadian official contacted authorities in Cairo. Abdelrahman Elmady says that as a result...

Jewish historian Yakov Rabkin said that the international community is turning a blind eye to Israel's attacks on the Palestinians by merely asserting Tel Aviv's "right to self-defence" while...

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals have made a serious error of judgement by launching their latest military offensive against the people of Palestine. Far from terrorising the...

The family of a former top Saudi intelligence official who is living in exile and locked in an international feud with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman say they have...

Canada has cancelled all defence exports to Turkey after they were suspended last year following the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, the nation's Foreign Minister Marc Garneau announced yesterday. Global Affairs Canada and...

Members of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) have voted overwhelmingly to endorse sanctions on Israel during the party's 2021 convention. NDP members voted over the weekend in favour of...

Amid growing concern over the weaponising of anti-Semitism by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, Jewish faculty members in Canadian universities are opposing the adoption of the highly...

Tunisia's Acting Justice Minister, Hasna Ben Slimane, announced on Monday that Canada has extended the freeze on funds linked to former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The decision...

A Canadian judge has rejected Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's request to add more evidence in her US extradition case, according to a ruling released on Monday, Reuters reports....

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a statement issued by a number of countries at the UN Human Rights Council criticising Cairo's human rights records by issuing...

A four-year-old Canadian girl has flown home after spending two years in a detention camp in northeast Syria leaving behind her mother who travelled there to marry a Daesh...

A court in Canada rejected an appeal on Thursday by the former Saudi intelligence chief Saad Al-Jabri to lift a freeze order on his assets, which are estimated at...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting upon the diplomatic route against the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed by his country....

The Biden administration's refusal to punish Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has put the lives of critics in grave danger, exiled dissidents...

Two planes used in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi were owned by a company seized by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) months before the journalist's death, CNN reports. MBS...

Canada has launched the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention denouncing state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign nationals for political purposes. The US and 58 other countries have endorsed the non-binding declaration...

United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Tuesday said the UN is deeply concerned by the situation of nearly 31,000 foreign children detained in Al-Hawl and Rouge refugee camps in...

A digital rights advocacy group has expressed concern over plans by tech giant Google to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Access Now issued a statement on...

Canada's House of Commons have unanimously voted in favour of granting citizenship to the dissident Saudi blogger Raif Badawi who has been imprisoned in the kingdom for nine years. The motion...

Canada's role in the Saudi led war in Yemen has sparked fresh protest in the province of Ontario as members of World Beyond War and Labour Against the Arms...

Condemnations are pouring in from across the world over twin suicide bombings in Iraq's capital Baghdad that killed at least 32 people and wounded 110 others, Anadolu Agency reports. The attack...

The labelling of products originating on Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory has sparked further controversy in Canada after a government run wine seller was found distributing bottles of Palestinian-made wine after...

A Canadian student with a history of denying the existence of Palestine and its people has been refunded £15,000 ($20,375) in fees by the School of Oriental and African...

International human rights law and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia do not sit together easily. A head of state acting as the "custodian" of the two holy mosques in...

Canada has approved a $90 million humanitarian assistance package for Palestinian refugees through the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The package...

The US administration of President Donald Trump is considering a Saudi request to grant Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) legal immunity from a federal lawsuit accusing him of...

A campaign to end the illegal recruitment of Canadian citizens by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has been gathering pace. One hundred and seventy prominent Canadian faith leaders, activists,...

Watch our interview with Jeremy Wildeman, a fellow at Ottawa University's Human Rights Research and Education Centre

Iran is not conducting its probe into the downing of a civilian airliner in January properly and many questions remain unanswered, an independent Canadian report into the tragedy said...

Some 18 Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priests died from the novel coronavirus last month, local media reported yesterday. The fatalities included priests in three governorates across Egypt, as well as...