Human Rights Watch on Sunday called on the Israeli authorities to provide coronavirus vaccines to the more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Anadolu...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the administration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in...

Human rights in Lebanon have seen the most drastic deterioration in decades, according to the Human Rights Watch's (HRW) World Report 2021. The country's poverty rate doubled in 2020 as...

Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Sarah Leah Whitson, yesterday called on Egyptian authorities to release elderly prisoners. In a video posted on Twitter by Batel Campaign, Whitson said: "I am speaking today...

Libya's United Nations-backed government was urged on Thursday to investigate the deaths of hundreds of people in Tarhuna, an agricultural town 45 miles southeast of the Libyan capital, which...

The official website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has used a map which shows Morocco included with the Western Sahara region. The publication of the "undivided" map...

The Moroccan authorities have strongly condemned Human Rights Watch's use of the human rights file to deliver its political position on Western Sahara, reported RT. The Moroccan authorities stated...

The law punishes perpetrators with up to two years imprisonment and a fine of up to 20 times the value of the minimum wage, which would currently amount to nearly $450 at the official exchange rate.

A report by Bloomberg News has uncovered further details of the sordid relationship between UAE Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed and the Luxembourg-based private bank, Banque Havilland. A trove of emails, documents,...

The Egyptian authorities are using "collective punishment" against prisoners in Cairo's notorious Scorpion Prison, Anadolu has reported. The allegation was made by Human Rights Watch yesterday. A report from...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday warned of the grave risk facing the health of Emirati human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor who has been detained in solitary confinement for more...

Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of mainly Ethiopian migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch said, quoting some as saying they had been tortured or beaten, and...

Iraq has released at least 75 children for lack of evidence for alleged links with the Daesh terrorist group, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports....

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairo's ability...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will be received in France today with a military welcome ceremony in what was intended to be a visit to cement close ties between...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday warned that Iraq's plan to close camps hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs) would lead to "homelessness and vulnerability". The rights watchdog said authorities should not force...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ask the Egyptian government to disclose the financial information of companies owned by the military before disbursing...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Saudi authorities to "clarify immediately" the status of two Chinese Muslims from the Uyghur minority who were apparently "arrested" in the Kingdom...

Amnesty International yesterday renewed its call on Egyptian authorities to "immediately" release prominent human rights defenders detained since last week. This came following the announcement of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Freedom Now and MENA rights are among some of the NGOs due to present evidence into the enforced disappearance and detention of former Saudi Crown...

Human Rights Watch has called on Egyptian authorities to immediately halt executions and retry detainees on death row after they executed 49 people in 10 days. "Egypt's mass executions...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced on Wednesday that Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against eight Saudi men charged with protest-related crimes, some of which they allegedly committed...

Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Saudi Arabia's hosting of this year's G20 Summit, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged world leaders not to play a role in the Kingdom's...

Facing ban for criticising Israel?

In “Targeting Life in Idlib” the rights group presents its investigation of the air and ground strikes on Idlib conducted by Russia and the Assad regime

The mass arrests and heavy-handed response to the 20 September protesters show how deeply Egypt's authorities fear mass protests, writes MENA researcher for Human Rights Watch Amr Magdi. "What...

Human Rights Watch are calling on the Egyptian government to investigate the death of a young man who died in police custody just before the outbreak of the 20...

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...

Interference in aid operations by parties to Yemen's conflict must stop as it is deterring donors and putting at risk millions of people who are dependent on assistance, Human...

Rights campaigners said the launch of a new contract for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon was a positive first step but that far deeper reform was needed to abolish...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Egyptian authorities to open a full investigation into the causes of the deaths of four detainees in three days inside Egyptian prisons. The organisation's...

Lebanese security forces used excessive force, including firing live ammunition, against anti-government protesters after the Beirut port explosion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. It called...