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A new bout of frontline fighting in Yemen has disrupted diplomatic efforts to expand a United Nations-brokered truce deal that has largely held since its expiry six months ago. Military and government sources told news agencies that the clashes erupted late on Tuesday when the Houthi rebels, who...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Emirati authorities on Wednesday of arbitrarily detaining for more than 15 months as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees who have not qualified for resettlement elsewhere. Many of the Afghans in Emirates Humanitarian City are suffering from depression and other...

Egyptian authorities have systematically denied scores of dissidents and activists living abroad from accessing or renewing their identity documents, to pressure them into returning to Egypt, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed. In a report released on Monday, the New York-based rights group said...

The international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly enough last month to help people in need in the rebel-held northwest after a deadly earthquake hit Turkey and conflict-ravaged Syria, a UN-backed commission said Monday. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on...

Tunisia’s government is seeking to allay growing international concerns about a surge of discrimination against sub-Saharan Africans, as the European Union warned Monday against hate speech targeting people fleeing conflict and poverty. African governments have evacuated hundreds of their citizens...

Thirty-eight countries at the UN Human Rights Council on March 7, 2023, condemned the pervasive obstruction and interference with Lebanon’s domestic investigation into the August 4, 2020 explosion at Beirut’s port, Human Rights Watch and Legal Agenda said today. Lebanese authorities should urgently act to carry out badly needed judicial reforms and remove other obstacles undermining the domestic investigation into the explosion.

Rights groups are urging members of parliament attending this year’s Inter-Parliamentary Union in Bahrain to use the assembly to raise concerns about the “dire state of political freedom” in the Gulf country. Bahrain has been accused of widespread crackdowns following pro-democracy protests in 2011...

A senior Israeli minister has said the Palestinian village of Huwara should be “wiped out” days after far-right settlers went on a rampage in the occupied West Bank villages, torching dozens of houses and cars in the wake of the killing of two Israeli brothers. “It’s incredibly inflammatory,” said...

Human rights lawyers have called on the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into alleged crimes they say were committed by Turkish authorities against thousands of opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The lawyers alleged that more than 200,000 people were victims of a...

Protests rocked Iran again overnight Thursday after seeming to have dwindled in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The protests that have swept across Iran began last September after the death in custody of...