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ISTANBUL (AA) – Shamed and abandoned, women held in the Assad regime’s prisons in Syria face social rejection after they are released. Thousands of Syrian women and children have been subjected to torture and detention by the Assad regime since 2011, when the civil war began in the country. Syrian ex-prisoners Lama Larin Jesry, chairman ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has slammed the adoption of a resolution by the UN Human Rights Council for the establishment of a fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country related to protests that began on Sept. 16. “The regime in Berlin, as the main provider of CWs (chemical weapons) to […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – For the first time since the genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Aug. 2017, several leading organizations and prominent activists have formed a greater alliance titled “Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA)” with the aim to ensure the persecuted community’s safe and dignified surviv...
BERLIN (AA) – German-Iranian ties have had their ups and downs, with a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program largely dominating bilateral relations for the past eight years. However, there were also other problems — among them Western concern over Iran’s human rights situation and Tehran’s role in countries like Iraq, Syria, Lebano...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany is pressing for a human rights resolution on Iran to be adopted during a special session at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva later this week, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Monday. “The federal (German) government has repeatedly expressed its concern about the massive violence being used by the [&...
BERLIN/ANKARA (AA) – Child labor has increased in the supply chains of developed countries and blocs such as the European Union, the US, Canada, Japan, Norway and Switzerland, especially due to cruel and illegal business models of corporations, an expert said on World Children’s Day. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, human rights activis...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino has defended Qatar against what he called “Western hypocrisy” amid criticism of the Gulf country’s treatment of migrant workers. The global tournament is set to open in Qatar on Sunday and will last through December 18. Doha has come under growing European criticism over an a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Thousands of children who lost their parents while migrating to Europe fall prey to human traffickers or the organ mafia in the countries they visit. The whereabouts of many refugee children who fled Ukraine due to Russia’s war are unknown. Although international non-governmental organizations have documented the us...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN on Tuesday condemned the beheading of two girls, aged 11 and 13, at the Al-Hol refugee camp in eastern Syria, home to families of suspected ISIS members. ”We’ve been drawing attention to the poor conditions at the Al‑Hol camp for some time now, and this is another extremely sad […]
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Chants of “free them all” and “no climate justice without human rights” rang out between the halls of COP27 Saturday, in the largest protest since the UN climate summit began. Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah’s sister, Sanaa Seif, who is at the summit campaigning for her br...
