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...

Human Rights Watch has criticised the detention of 43,000 men, women, and children in northeast Syria "often with the explicit or implicit consent of their countries of nationality." These...

The Egyptian army has demolished 12,350 buildings in Sinai since 2013, Human Rights Watch revealed yesterday, adding that these demolitions "are violations of international humanitarian law, or the laws...

Police in Bahrain beat children arrested over taking part in anti-government protests last month and threatened them with rape and electric shocks, according to the Bahrain Institute for Rights...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticised retired General Khalifa Haftar's failure to hand over the commander of Al-Saiqa Brigade Colonel Mahmoud Al-Werfalli, despite his involvement in war crimes and the arrest...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that Yemeni forces loyal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the southern city of Aden have tortured...

Expatriate workers in the UAE be warned: overzealous securocrats in the Gulf oligarchies are watching you and all other foreigners, ready to pounce if you dare to criticise any...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Egyptian government to reverse the decision it made in December to revoke the citizenship of political activist Ghada Najibe. Parliament should amend...

Over 60 Syrian nationals were arrested and illegally moved from northeast Syria to Turkey to face trial on serious charges that could lead to life in prison by Turkey and...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday called for an independent, international investigation into the Beirut port explosion which killed more than 200 people and injured at least 6,000 others. The...

In a letter sent to the EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, 16 MEPs voiced their "deep concern" about the deterioration of human rights in Bahrain, MEP Karen Melchior tweeted last...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded France open an investigation into a Mali air strike that locals say targeted a civilian wedding reception. A report published by the rights...

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...