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The European Court of Human Rights }']ruled on Tuesday that the Netherlands violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family life, in a case involving the long-term separation of a mother from her daughter following the...
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch urged the European Union to demand that Bhutanese authorities release dozens of political prisoners held for decades on Tuesday. The detainees have allegedly been deprived of multiple fundamental rights and held in inhumane conditions.
According to...
The United Nation’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan deplored the increasing violence in Darfur on Monday, as the war enters its third year. The Fact-Finding Mission called for an immediate ceasefire between both parties under respect for International Humanitarian Law...
The US and El Salvador have subjected more than 200 Venezuelan nationals to forced disappearance and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. In a dramatic escalation of immigration practices, authorities removed 238 Venezuelans from US detention on March 15, transferring...
Amnesty International criticized the US’s decision to cut foreign aid funding to Yemen on Thursday, highlighting the impact the funding cuts have had on the country’s human rights crisis.
As the group reports, aid workers suggested that the aid cuts have exacerbated the country’s human rights...
The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomed on Friday the decision of the court to award victims €52.4 million in reparations for the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by an African rebel group in Uganda.
According to the fund, the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday welcomed the UN Human Rights Council’s first-ever resolution on antipersonnel landmines that was passed on April 4.
The Ottawa Convention defines an anti-personnel mine as: “a mine designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and...
Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service following a devastating Israeli airstrike early Sunday morning, amid what UN agencies describe as an escalating humanitarian catastrophe.
Until the strike, Al Ahli had been one of Gaza’s few partially functioning hospitals...
Hundreds of people in northern Ghana, mostly older women, continue to live in fear and extreme hardship after being accused of witchcraft and forced from their communities, according to a new report published Monday by Amnesty International.
The report, “Branded for Life: How Witchcraft...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on the European Union’s border agency, Frontex, to use aerial surveillance not only to detect and monitor migrant vessels in distress but also to facilitate timely rescues in the Central Mediterranean. The appeal follows a meeting between HRW...
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