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...

Russia, China and Iran are behind dangerous misinformation campaigns about coronavirus, the intelligence agency responsible for keeping Canadians safe said in a report made public Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. As well,...

An advertising campaign was launched today to highlight the massive human rights violations committed by the Saudi regime and calling for a boycott of this weekend's G20 Summit which...

Iran has rejected a United Nations (UN) resolution that condemns human rights abuses in the country, Al Jazeera reported. The resolution, which was put forward by Canada, was adopted by the third committee...

A boat full of asylum seekers arrived at the shores of western Greece earlier this week, with a Kurdish MP and 20 former Turkish police officers onboard. According to...

Saudi Arabia yesterday told the US "not to use the principle of universal jurisdiction" to prosecute Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman as the royal was summoned a part of...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was informed of a US court's lawsuit against him via the WhatsApp messaging app, new documents related to the case have revealed....

On average we each tend to use around 16,000 words a day to communicate with one another, but there is one word which appears to be banned by the...

More than 40 per cent of the region’s 200 million Arab youths are either actively considering or have considered emigrating to another country

Canada has suspended arms export permits to Turkey over concerns that it is using its technology in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. "In...

Prominent international non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has waded into the row over a decision by the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law to rescind its job offer to...

A Canadian man who, in several interviews with the New York Times, recounted a gruesome description of working for Daesh has been accused by police of making the entire story...

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Law has become embroiled in controversy following a decision by the dean of the prestigious law school to rescind an offer of directorship...

The Turkish foreign minister on Thursday spoke with the head of NATO and his Canadian counterpart over the phone, according to diplomatic sources, Anadolu Agency reports. Mevlut Cavusoglu, Jens Stoltenberg and Francois-Philippe Champagne...

The explosion in Beirut last month could not have come at a worse time for children and families. In a country that is already under enormous economic and social...

A UN report released yesterday has named Canada for the first time among the countries that are fuelling the war in Yemen. The findings cover June 2019 to June...