Further evidence of the alleged war crimes committed by Israel during its 11-day assault on Gaza in May, which were uncovered by Human Rights Watch last month, was reported by Haaretz today detailing...

There was strong evidence to suggest some Lebanese officials knew about and tacitly accepted the lethal risks posed by ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port before the fatal blast...

The founders of Ben & Jerry's doubled down on the company's decision to end business in the Israeli occupied West Bank with a compelling article in the New York...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to safeguard the rights of all Tunisians and reverse the repressive measures put in place which largely concentrate powers...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused Israel of carrying out attacks against the Palestinians in Gaza "that violated the laws of war and apparently amount to war crimes" during...

Abdelkader was arrested at Jeddah airport on April 19 and held at a police station for 20 days before his transfer to al-Shumaisi detention center near Mecca

Saudi Arabia's treatment of the children of former top intelligence officer, Saad Al-Jabri, has been slammed by Human Rights Watch (HRW) as a form of collective punishment. In a...

The Biden administration is drawing up arms deals with at least three human rights abusers including Egypt, despite pledging to put human rights at the centre of its foreign...

New details of alleged torture of prominent political activists detained in Saudi prisons have emerged, confirming widespread abuse and mistreatment that were reported by rights groups and media agencies...

The human rights organisation DAWN has once again called on the Egyptian government to release Abdullah Boumediene who was forcibly disappeared from Sinai when he was just 12 years...

The International Commission of Jurists has called for immediate action to stop politically motivated executions in Egypt, considering them invalid because of the lack of fair trials. In a statement published...

Iran's supreme leader promoted a hardline cleric to serve as head of the judiciary yesterday, amid international calls for investigations into allegations of abuses, Reuters reports. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, now the...

The Iraqi government has confirmed its refusal to deport foreign citizens convicted for terrorism so that they can serve the rest of their sentences in their own countries, Anadolu...

The Minister of Labour in the Palestinian Authority, Nasri Abu Jaish, is going to resign, a member of his party announced yesterday, as protesters marched for a fourth day...

An international committee to campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Arab countries has been established under the leadership of former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, Anadolu has...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said Ebrahim Raisi's election as Iran's new president was a blow for human rights and called for him to be investigated over his...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Hoda Abdel Hamid who was detained after filing a complaint about the torture and sexual...

From the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. This is not a 'conflict'. Neither is it...

The abuse Israeli forces are inflicting on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank "stem from a decades-long pattern of Israeli authorities using excessive and vastly disproportionate force to quell...

Germany has expressed its rejection of a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) describing Israeli practices toward Palestinians as amounting to "the crimes against humanity of apartheid and...

Egypt's Ministry of Defence has announced that it will buy $4.5 billion worth of Rafale fighter jets from France in a move that has sparked outrage among human rights...

Tunisia is detaining women repatriated with their children recently for having alleged ties to the extremists of Daesh, Human Rights Watch has revealed. Some of the women, said the...

In a dramatic escalation representative of global outrage against Israel's tsunami of crimes against the people of occupied Palestine, New York-based Human Rights Watch has released a detailed legal...

Apartheid is a legal term for a political system that commits inhumane acts to assert the domination of one racial group over another

Israel's status as an apartheid state is likely to be cemented further with a new report by Human Rights Watch concluding that the occupation state has crossed the threshold...

President Joe Biden's U-turn on ending US support for offensive operations in Yemen earlier this week with the resumption of arms sale to the UAE has been condemned as a "disastrous"...

Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday that the Lebanese government's COVID-19 vaccination programme risks leaving behind marginalised communities, including refugees and migrant workers. The rights watchdog said in a...

A founding member of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Hawk Newsome, said he is appalled by the lack of coverage of the Yemeni Houthis' crimes against Ethiopian immigrants...

Human Rights Watch says a Saudi man who was convicted following a "grossly unfair trial" for crimes committed when he was a minor risks being executed although the Saudi...

Human Rights Watch criticised the Lebanese authorities on Tuesday for their response to protesters in the northern city of Tripoli at the end of January. "Lebanese military intelligence agents...

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Jordan not to deport Yemeni asylum seekers, warning that forcible deportation exposes them to "harm in Yemen." The rights watchdog said in...

Qatar yesterday rejected a report prepared by Human Rights Watch about women's rights and freedoms in the Gulf state, saying that gender equality and female empowerment are central to...