INTERNATIONAL UN experts on Tuesday condemned Israel’s “harassment” of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers in the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta villages, where Israel operates a military zone. The special rapporteurs insisted such harassment must stop, and said residents continue to be threatened by the risk of forcible transfer,[…]
INTERNATIONAL Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar failed to appear for a deposition in a US federal court where he is at the centre of a lawsuit accusing him of war crimes and extrajudicial killings. Haftar was scheduled to appear on Monday in a long-sought video deposition where he was going to[…]
INTERNATIONAL Saudi authorities must end the use of travel bans against human rights activists, journalists, and critics of the government, says Amnesty International. As part of a campaign launched on Monday, the London-based rights group cited the plight of 30 human rights defenders who were subject to lengthy travel bans once[…]
Human rights activist Rhoda Kadalie has died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles. She’s a former human rights commissioner. Kadalie was also the founder of the Gender Equity Unit at the University of the Western Cape. She had extensive experience as an academic. Kadalie was born in Cape[…]
INTERNATIONAL A year after a massive explosion at Beirut Port devastated the Lebanese capital, the victims’ grieving families are still waiting for answers, accountability and justice. More than 200 people were killed and 6,500 wounded when hundreds of tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate fertiliser stored in the port for six years[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country’s forebears’ struggles for liberty and human rights for all have given South Africa the foundation and resilience to wage the battle it’s facing with the coronavirus pandemic. He was delivering his Human Rights Day message to the nation. Ramaphosa says the pandemic has changed[…]
Human rights groups and activists have intensified calls to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit hosted by Saudi Arabia this weekend, demanding the kingdom release jailed activists. The summit, held virtually this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, is an annual meeting of the world’s 20 largest economies. Although a[…]
A giant voice within the Cape Muslim community has fallen silent. Dr Anwah Nagia, one of Cape Town’s foremost human rights activists, businessman, philanthropist and a champion of the rights of the poor and disenfranchised. died at the age of 62 years old on Monday. He has spent the past[…]
Yemeni Human Rights Minister Mohamed Askar has announced that the military escalation by the Houthi forces in different areas in Yemen, including the latest offensives in Marib, Al-Jawf, and Ad-Dali provinces, is concerning and can have negative repercussions on the humanitarian situation. He explained that statistics indicate that nearly 700[…]
An appeals court in Malaysia has overturned a lower court ruling sentencing 27 Rohingya men to be caned, saying their refugee status affords them international protection from persecution. Collin Andrew, a lawyer representing the refugees, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday the sentence of caning imposed in June had been “set[…]
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