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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the UAE of clamping down on activism and freedom of expression under the guise of counterterrorism. The report today comes after the Emirati...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday criticised the choice of Egypt as host of the next global climate summit in November 2022, warning that the Egyptian government would use the...

Israel's highest court is accused of "rubber-stamping discriminatory practices that contribute to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution," following a recent decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to...

This week the French train manufacturer Alstom announced that it had secured a $1 billion deal to upgrade Cairo's oldest metro line. It follows a contract the same company...

USAID and the International Cooperation Ministry has said that the US is giving Egypt seven grants worth $125 million to support education, health and other development projects. The news...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused the Syrian regime and its allied militias of committing grave human rights violations including torture, extra-judicial killings and kidnappings against Syrian refugees who had voluntarily...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday accused Facebook of "wrongfully" removing and "suppressing" Palestinian content during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in May, including discussions related to...

Israel's apartheid regime became the subject of a dispute recently in the Hebrew edition of the Haaretz newspaper between leading Israeli human rights attorney Michael Sfard and South Africa's Chief Rabbi...

Saudi Arabia has lobbied heavily against a Western resolution that would extend the mandate of UN investigators who have documented possible war crimes in Yemen, including by the Riyadh-led...

Israeli shops have been dealt a hammer blow by sports clothing manufacturer Nike

Seventy-six global rights organisations yesterday called on the United Arab Emirates to release human rights defenders and activists. In a letter addressed to UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed...

As the Dubai Expo 2020 kicks off today, the UAE’s “tolerance narrative” has been slammed as a “sham” by HRW

Human Rights Watch have slammed a press release issued by Egypt's United Nations Development Programme office which heaps praise on the Egyptian president. The statement says Egypt has progressed...

Just months ago, Cameroonian migrant Wilfred Christopher had a home and stable job as a pastry chef in Abu Dhabi. Now, the 26-year-old fears for his life after authorities...

Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an independent international mechanism to monitor and report on the human rights situation...

Amnesty International has released a report to say that 66 Syrian refugees who returned home have been detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Syrian security forces. The report, "You're...

Egypt's Interior Minister and National Security Agency officers have carried out unlawful extrajudicial executions in so-called shootouts, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. According to the publication, these...

Saudi authorities have since July 2021 began to terminate or not renew contracts of Yemeni professionals, which could force them to return to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to protect human rights and lift the "repressive" steps that have been imposed since he took the exceptional...

There is a stark difference in the language used by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its April 2017 report which describes Israel as having committed crimes of apartheid, and...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) today accused Israel of violating international laws of war, after demolishing four multi-story buildings by air raids during its 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip...

The Egyptian embassy in the US has tweeted a statement connecting human rights workers who inform members of Congress of abuses committed by the Cairo regime with terror organisations....

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...