Human Rights

Companies operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank contribute to "an inherently unlawful and abusive system" violating Palestinian…

The European Union on Saturday condemned as "extremely worrying" Turkey's arrest of around 20 academics who signed a petition criticizing…

Mortada Mansour has been selected as chairman of parliament's Human Rights Committee, reported Al-Masry Al-Youm on Tuesday.According to Al-Shorouk newspaper,…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published the top human rights-related tweets of 2015 on December 22, showcasing the trends that dominated…

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Thursday condemned human rights abuses in North Korea and Iran, a rebuke rejected…

A surge in complaints about forced disappearances over the past few months is the result of a failure by the…

A digital media freedom advocacy group has dismissed the Interior Ministry’s response to recent incidents of fatal torture of detainees…

The UN's assistant secretary-general for human rights on Monday expressed concern about human rights abuses and the lack of respect…

Deaths inside Egyptian prisons, due to torture and medical negligence, stood at 13 in November alone, a NGO said Wednesday,…

“Exceptional circumstances can never be pretexts for torture,” Egypt’s former vice president Mohamed ElBaradei tweeted after reports emerged about three…