Aid for Gaza Piles Up as Israel Rallies Troops for Invasion
Desperately needed international aid piled up Friday near Gaza, with Palestinians in dire need of food and water after relentless...
Human rights
Pro-Israel Groups Call on US Law Firms to Boycott Event Honouring UN’s Navi Pillay
Several pro-Israel Jewish groups have urged law firms to rescind their sponsorship of a conference next month over the presence of a...
Tajikistan: Prominent Members of Pamiri Minority Arbitrarily Detained, Tortured and Unfairly Convicted
Frankfurt (22/09 – 58.33) Since May 2022, the Tajikistani authorities have stepped up their ongoing crackdown on Pamiris, an ethnic,...
US Calls Out Turkey’s Syrian Proxies for ‘Extensive Human Rights Abuses’
Last week, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against two Turkish-supported Sunni Islamist militias based in Syria. The organizations are the Hamza...
The Plight and Politics of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
When Syria’s regime was readmitted into the Arab League and its president, Bashar al Assad, rehabilitated after years of ostracism for his...
“Paper Tiger” or “Snow Leopard”: The EU Sanctions Tajikistan One Year On?
Brussels, Frankfurt (29/5 – 33) European Parliament members have strongly condemned ongoing repression by the authorities of Tajikistan against journalists, activists and...
Modern slavery most common in North Korea, Eritrea, report says
North Korea, Eritrea and Mauritania have the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the world, according to the 2023 Global...
Taking Up Question of Western Sahara, Some Speakers in Special Decolonization Committee Call for Urgent Self-Determination Referendum, Voice Concern over Human Rights Abuses
The Special Committee on Decolonization continued the substantive part of its 2023 session today, examining in depth the question of...
Activists welcome EU rebuke to Morocco on human rights
Moroccan human rights activists on Thursday welcomed a resolution by the European parliament critical of Morocco's human rights record. Last...
