James Zogby* In the 45 years since launching the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, I’ve witnessed more tragic wars than I can count, and I have defended Palestinians against more heinous crimes than I can list. During all this time, there have always been American supporters who embraced the cause of …
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Ahram Online The Egyptian Centre for Strategic Studies (ECSS) is holding a conference in Cairo on 8 April dubbed ‘Human Rights: Building the Post Pandemic World’ to tackle the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic. According to a press release, the conference will be attended by several high-profile ministers, officials, and representatives …
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Research on pushbacks of asylum-seekers reveals massive figures of human-rights violations; yet it could be just the tip of the iceberg. Hope Barker This month, NGO ‘Border Violence Monitoring Network’ (BVMN) published a Black Book of Pushbacks, commissioned by the United Left group of the European Parliament. The book represents the …
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Ahram Online The United Nations Alliance of Civilisation (UNAOC) High Representative Miguel Ángel Moratinos is “following with deep concern the growing tensions and instances of intolerance triggered by the publication of satirical caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohamed, which Muslims consider insulting and deeply offensive, calling for mutual respect”, read a …
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Egypt Independent A Yemeni rights organisation accused both sides in the country’s civil war, on Tuesday, of “arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture of thousands in the past four years, in unofficial detention centres across Yemen”. The Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said, it “documented over 1,600 cases of arbitrary …
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Egypt Independent UN human rights experts condemned Israel’s plan to annex significant parts of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. They said the plans “violate international law banning the taking of territory by force” and urged other countries to actively oppose it. A joint statement, signed by nearly 50 independent …
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Human rights, including social and economic rights, may seem to some a luxury during a crisis. But that is when they are needed most. Selin Sayek Böke We are going through dire times. A public-health crisis with significant social and economic effects is happening before us. The coronavirus has …
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Egypt Independent “Saudi military forces have committed grave abuses against civilians in an Eastern province of Yemen over the past year, including torture, forced disappearances and arbitrary detention”, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The New York-based watchdog presented chilling testimony from former detainees in Yemen’s …
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Egypt Today Egypt’s National Society for Rights and Freedoms, and the Association for the Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) participated in the 43rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) held in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday. The Egyptian human rights mission participated in a session tackling the …
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Egypt Today Marking the ‘International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation’ (FGM), Egypt’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohamed Idris affirmed the government’s keenness to continue efforts to eliminate the long-standing phenomenon. This comes only few days after a 12-year-old girl died from Female genital mutilation …
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