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...
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 [&...
