Human Rights Violation

The Bahraini Foreign Ministry expressed its disapproval of the report issued by the US State Department on Friday April 19 2013 regarding human rights in Bahrain. It believes the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES An Israeli human rights organisation has criticised its government's reduction of the fishing limit for Gaza's fishermen from six to three nautical miles. "This constitutes collective punishment...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian fishermen have taken part in a nautical protest against the restrictions placed on them by Israel. Hundreds of fishermen and activists took part in the demonstration...

80 per cent of those killed by Israeli forces killed during the last four days of the war waged on the Gaza Strip in November were uninvolved civilians, Israeli...

As reported earlier this week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decreed that all of the relevant agencies under his authority must abide by the provisions of the Basic Law...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is to issue a formal declaration criminalising torture. An announcement to this effect was made following the publication of the 18th Annual Report of...

Al-Tadamun human rights organisation said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation has renewed the administrative detention of 11 Palestinians, including a former hunger striker and two Palestinian lawmakers. The...

Deputy Chairman of Hamas' Political Bureau, Moussa Abu Marzook, has expressed grief over the torture taking place in Palestinian Authority prisons and believes that the EU statement issued on...

The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Gaza has questioned the Interior Minister over alleged security transgressions and violations of basic freedoms. The PLC's Monitoring and Inspection Committee said that...

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said he does not want to live in a "racist state which controls millions of Palestinians through oppression and racism but...

Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons began an open-ended hunger strike on Monday in protest against their detention for extended periods of time without trial, Palestine's Prisoners Centre said....

The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced four former Israeli soldiers to only four months of community service after they were indicted for abusing a disabled Palestinian detainee in 2009,...

Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement has welcomed a report by the UN Rights of the Child Committee which reveals details of Israel's systematic criminal acts against Palestinian children. In a...

A UN committee has accused Israel of torturing Palestinian children in the occupied territories. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child says that thousands of Palestinian children...

The annual report from the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has revealed that twenty-seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank during 2013; nine people...

Human rights groups, trade unions and several other major civil society organisations have called for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to exclude Israel. The international diamond regulatory body is...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for an investigation into the conduct of Egyptian security forces as they cleared the protest camps in Cairo on Wednesday....

The annual report of the US State Department stated that Israel discriminates against Arabs, women, foreign nationals, and people with special needs. The report, which covers the year 2012...

Some Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on the EU Commission's Foreign Affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, to partially suspend the Association Agreement with Israel on the grounds...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to launch a primary investigation into Israel's murderous attack on the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. The convoy of ships was in...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) called on Monday for an investigation into Israel's maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners and added that the viability of life in Gaza is at...

A British Member of the European Parliament has quizzed the EU Foreign Affairs chief over torture in prisons run by the Palestinian Authority. Phil Bennion MEP asked Cathy Ashton...

EU countries are meeting to discuss their positions towards Egypt and reassess their relations after the continuous bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters. Foreign ministers of the EU were called...

Following the Egyptian authorities' arrest on Sunday of four Cairo-based Al-Jazeera English journalists, the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK (AOHR UK), a non-governmental organisation that promotes human...

I have a number of questions regarding the current events in Egypt. The most notable of which are as follows: On July 23, Al-Ahram newspaper published a headline noting...

The EuroMid Observer for Human Rights has documented the killing of at least 1215 protesters across Egypt, of which 914 protesters killed in Cairo, after Egyptian Armed Forces moved...

UNICEF's report, Children in Israeli Military Detention, Observations and Recommendations, detailing the condition of Palestinian children detained in Israel's military jails fails to address torture as a modus operandi,...

For two days at the end of May, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the "Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism" to discuss the "global challenge" of such racism. In...