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ANKARA (AA) – A total of 547 detainees have died in Syrian regime’s detention centers in 2022, according to a UK-based human rights group. “The Syrian regime has registered thousands of forcibly disappeared persons as dead, including prominent activists from the popular uprising against its rule,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) sai...
Baabda, Lebanon — AFP Nour is raising her four-month-old daughter in Lebanon’s most overpopulated women’s prison, struggling to get formula and nappies for her baby as the country’s economy lies in tatters. “I don’t have enough milk to breastfeed, and baby formula isn’t readily available,” said t...
New Delhi, India – AFP Ten years ago the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus horrified the world and shone a spotlight on high rates of sexual violence in India. Jyoti Singh, 23, and a male friend boarded a bus on the evening of December 16, 2012. Savagely […]
PARIS (AA) – Under pressure from far-right, the French President is working on an immigration draft law which human rights groups said would raise fears. The first step before the official presentation of the new immigration bill, there have been long debates on France’s migration policy. The proposed law must combine “firmness and human...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Authorities in Tunisia have “not done enough” to protect women against domestic violence despite progressive legislation five years ago, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged. In 2017, a law was passed to tackle violence against women, regarded as a pioneering initiative. However, “insufficient” imp...
BERLIN (AA) – Thousands of migrants have been beaten, humiliated and arbitrarily detained at the EU’s external borders before being illegally pushed back, a new damning report by a group of human rights organizations has revealed. The Border Violence Monitoring Network has documented hundreds of cases, in which European border guards use...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s decision to deport French-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer Salah Hammouri to France against his will may constitute a war crime under the Geneva Convention, UN experts said Friday. Israel reaffirmed the revocation of Hammouri’s permanent residency in Jerusalem on Nov. 30. Authorities said Hammouri would...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – Modern slavery continues to increase significantly across the globe, and the United Nations urged everyone to focus on this disturbing trend on Friday when the world marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. “Thinking about people in terrible circumstances and recognizing their plight is of great...
ANKARA (AA) – Around 50 million people were living in modern-day slavery in 2021, according to recent data compiled by Anadolu Agency on the occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. “Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour and 22 million were trapped in forced marriage,” according to a joint [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden is “monitoring” ongoing civil unrest in China sparked by the country’s restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns, the White House said on Monday. Biden is “staying up on what’s going on. He’s monitoring this. We all are,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirb...
