Human rights

The French National Consultative Commission of Human Rights chose the Palestinian NGOs Network as a one of five global winners of France's human rights award. The Mezan Centre for Human...

The Legislative Council deplores the human rights organizations for ignoring the attack on MP Mona Mansour The presidency of the Palestinian Legislative Council denounced the human rights organizations for...

A Palestinian human rights report has accused the Israeli Occupation of confiscating approximately 160,000 acres of Palestinian land during 2009 by abusing various laws, such as the Barren Land...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza this week opened in East Jabalya, northern Gaza Strip, the first housing unit of a project to rebuild houses...

The minister of women's affairs in Gaza, Jameela al-Shuntee, has denounced a decision by the Israeli Prison Authorities to install surveillance cameras in female common areas inside the Hasharon...

A human rights center concerned with prisoners' issues stated that the Israeli Occupation Authorities are currently detaining 17 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The center noted that the Israelis,...

A UN official has confirmed that Israel's occupation forces have killed more than 1,300 Palestinian children during the last decade. According to Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur...

A group of twenty-one aid and human rights organizations have called for serious international action to bring about "an immediate, unconditional and complete" lifting of the blockade imposed on...

Reports from Solidarity International Foundation for Human Rights claim that Israel carried out three dawn arrests on 21st October. The human rights body says that Israeli forces stormed a...

Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights has demanded the release of Palestinian MPs and ministers being held in Israeli jails. The Centre called upon the Secretaries General...

The former UN Secretary General, Boutros Ghali, confirmed on Tuesday that he expected a brighter future for Egypt in the coming years. Ghali, who celebrates his 90th birthday tomorrow,...

The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...

An Israeli court has heard that the government of Ehud Olmert drafted a plan to starve Palestinians in Gaza. The details were revealed after a human rights group obtained...

Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have deplored Israel's ongoing violations against Palestinians and called for an immediate halt to Israeli disregard for human rights...

The security services in the occupied West Bank have detained more than 60 Palestinians with political backgrounds, including writers, journalists and activists, Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights (DAHR) said...

The Israeli occupation forces have turned the roofs of Palestinian homes in the ancient city of Hebron, south of the West Bank, into military barracks and control points under...

The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that 916 people were killed in various parts of the country during the last week. Rami Abdel Rahman told...

The absence of any obvious commitment to human rights and the terms of the UN Charter has led the Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs to call for a UN...

Reports from Israel claim that more than 40 Palestinian prisoners were injured on Tuesday morning in Israel's Eshel prison, with 16 placed in solitary confinement, after Israeli soldiers with...

The Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights has reiterated its opposition to the extradition of former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi to his homeland. The LDHR claims...

The denial of unhindered access to education is one of the untold stories of the suffering of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. While thousands...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli naval vessels have again attacked Gaza fishermen going about their lawful business at sea; no causalities have been reported in the latest incident. A statement from...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank held its 37th graduation ceremony at the weekend; the programme of events was spread over two days. Post-graduate students were...

The Tunisian government has rejected a statement by the US Ambassador in Tunis concerning a judgement against a privately-owned television station, and called it "interference in the judicial affairs...

A human rights organization has reported that the Israeli Prisons' Administration is deliberately and continuously transporting isolated prisoners on hunger-strike in Ashkelon, from one cell to another several times...

A human rights organisation has reported that the Israeli occupation forces have stepped up what it calls their "racist and aggressive practices" against the Palestinian people over the past...

A report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticised the Israeli army's use of live ammunition against unarmed Palestinian civilians. The UN...

An Israeli court has banished eight Palestinian minors from their home town of Beit A'mer, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank). The eight are currently being detained...

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued around 100,000 administrative detention orders against Palestinians since 1967, according to an official report issued by the Public Relations section of the Palestinian...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES There has been unprecedented participation in the first stage of the parliamentary elections in Egypt. Record turnouts were recorded in all polling stations. Despite cold weather and...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Osama Hamdan, a member of the Hamas' political bureau and the official responsible for its foreign affairs, has visited the Gaza Strip where he is due to...

Israeli occupation forces have detained dozens more Palestinians in sweeps throughout the West Bank. Three elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and several ex-ministers linked to Hamas...