(Washington DC) – Broad US-imposed economic sanctions are negatively affecting the Iranian government’s ability to adequately respond to the mounting health consequences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The US should take immediate action to ease US sanctions and expand licensing of sanctions-exempt items to ensure Iran’s access to essential humanitarian resources during the pandemic. According […]
Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis
At Least 5 Detainees from al-Mahrah Illegally Transferred to Saudi Arabia
The Children of Syria: Millions of Young Lives Blighted by a Decade-Long War
By Philippa H Stewart (Senior Media Officer) and Bill Van Esveld (Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division) | – ( Human Rights Watch) – The war in Syria has been taking its toll on children for nine years – their lives forever marked by the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of children are now fighting to […]
Rapid Spread of Virus Further Tests Iranians’ Faith in Government
Successful Measures to Contain Coronavirus Require Public Trust
Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)
Unlawful Lethal Force, Families Threatened, Cover-Ups
UN’s List of Companies contributing to Illegal Israeli Settlements on Palestine aids Accountability (HRW)
List Reaffirms Global Rejection of Illegal Settlement Enterprise
World Court Rules against Buddhist Burma on Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
International Court of Justice Unanimously Orders Measures to Prevent Genocide
Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk
( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – Yemen’s armed conflict and humanitarian crisis is resulting in unspeakable suffering for millions of civilians despite increasing global attention to abuses occurring in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. The Saudi government’s murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in late […]
Born Without Civil Rights: Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank
(Human Rights Watch The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in the West Bank of their basic civil rights, including the rights to free assembly, association and expression, regularly drawing on military orders issued in the first days of the occupation. Even if such restrictions could have been justified then to preserve public order […]
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