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Archives: Human Rights

Yemen: Saudi-led Airstrikes kill 28 civilian refugees

TeleSur | - - Yemen has been ravaged by the ongoing war, which has claimed more than 10,000 people and caused a cholera outbreak among 300,000. Officials from both the Yemeni Government…

One Year Later: Why the Purges in Turkey Were Always in the Pipeline

By Sarphan Uzunoglu. | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | - - When it comes to Turkey, representatives of European Union countries—aided and abetted by Turkish liberals who got the ruling Justice and Development…

Turkey: Erdogan Marks Coup anniversary with more Crackdowns

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey commemorated on Saturday the anniversary of the failed coup in that country. The coup attempt was genuinely unpopular.…

Human Rights Defenders Are Still Behind Bars in Turkey

By Zara Rahman | ( GlobalVoices.org) | - - Eight of Turkey's most respected human rights defenders were arrested last week, along with two information technology trainers from Sweden and Germany. All…

Saudi Bloc: Qatar’s Al Jazeera can Stay, it Just has to Report as We Say

TeleSur | - - Al Jazeera said it rejects any “external intervention” and reiterates its “independence and professional editorial stance.” The four Arab countries currently boycotting Qatar are set to drop their…

With CNN Reporter Attack Video, Trump apes Seedy Dictators

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump has taken another big step toward becoming an African dictator. On Sunday he tweeted a video someone made for him that was…

Did Trump commit a crime in trying to Blackmail Mika and Joe? (TYT)

Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz | TYT Video Report | - - "The President of the United States is tight with the owner of "The National Enquirer,” because of course he…

UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera attack on Freedom of Expression

UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters reports that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, is "extremely concerned by the demand that Qatar close down the…

Freeing Fayza: A Journey to War-Torn Iraq to Rescue a Yazidi ISIL Slave Girl

By: Brian Glyn Williams and Christopher Natola | (Informed Comment) | - - It began with an electrifying text message from a Yazidi member of a network dedicated to freeing Yazidis (an…

Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - After several years in which refugees and migration have featured heavily in the Western media narrative, a disturbing correlation between human trafficking and conflict…

How Saudi blackmailed the UN to avoid Yemen War Human Rights Slam

By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - When Saudi Arabia – which has been spearheading a coalition of Arab states in a devastating war against…

N. American Scholars of Mideast react to SCOTUS Decision on Trump Muslim Ban

Middle East Studies Association of North America | - - On Monday, June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued a limited stay in the case that MESA has joined as…

If US Wars aren’t on TV, are all those 1000s really Dying?

Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, U.N. panel says.” “Pentagon wants to declare…

Can Iran, Turkey and Egypt Cooperate to deliver Mideast from Chaos?

Farhang Jahanpour | ( Tehran Times | - - TEHRAN - Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on the Middle East in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, tells…

Turkey’s Erdogan: Saudi demand he close Qatar base is ‘Disrespectful’

TeleSur | - - Erdogan told journalists after Eid al-Fitr prayers that "It (the list of demands from Qatar's neighbors to lift the ban) is a breach of Qatar's sovereignty rights." On…

Tense Eid 1.2 mn Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Tense Eid for 1.2 mn Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

By Billie Jeanne Brownlee | (The Conversation) | - - For Syrian refugees in Lebanon marking the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it has been a struggle to find enough food to…

1/2 of World’s Civilian War Deaths were in Syria, Iraq & Yemen during past Half-Decade

By IPS World Desk | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME/GENEVA (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2015, nearly half of all civilian war deaths worldwide occurred in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,…

Do Egyptians have any Rights Left at All? – HRW

Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities in recent weeks have arrested at least 50 peaceful political activists, blocked at least 62 websites, and opened a criminal prosecution against…

Speaking Truth to Erdogan: His Authoritarian Turn and Europe

By Ludwig Schulz | German Orient Institute | (Via Euractiv.com ) | - - Ludwig Schulz looks at how scientific analysis can help counter President Erdoğan’s fake narrative of Turkey’s thriving democracy…