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The chaos and violence, which continue to rock Libya, have a devastating impact on health care in the country, with hospitals bombed & looted, medical personnel attacked and even taken hostage or arbitrarily detained, according to a UN report. “These Read more
The Human Rights Council, which held on Friday a special session on “the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem”, has joined its voice to that of many Arab, Islamic and European countries that have Read more
The United Nations on Tuesday called on Turkey to end its 18-month-old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in “profound” human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting Read more
The Syrian regime has unleashed its fury on civilians in eastern Ghouta firing rockets and barrel killing dozens. On the fourth day of the intense attack, the UN and aid agencies have urged a cessation of fighting in order to Read more
Morocco sent an emergency humanitarian aid to Bangladesh in order to support the country’s efforts to cope with the massive influx of refugees from the Muslim minority of the Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar, the ministry of Foreign Affairs and Read more
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein has raised eyebrows over Egypt’s policies to combat extremism as he highlighted that “a state of emergency, the massive numbers of detentions, reports of torture and continued arbitrary arrest – Read more
The conflict in Syria is the “worst man-made disaster the world has seen since World War II,” the United Nations human rights chief said Tuesday, calling for an end to all tortures, executions and unfair trials, and at the very Read more
The UN has sounded the alarm over the appalling human rights violations, ranging from rape, torture, force labor, arbitrary detention, that migrants heading to Europe face in Libya. A report, published jointly by UNSMIL and the UN Human Rights Office, Read more
The United Nations Organization has just published an alarming report on the blatant human rights abuses and “acts of violence of an increasingly sectarian nature” committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) over a period of Read more