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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/13/2023 11:24:35 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed Friday for the protection of basic human rights as the Israel-Hamas conflict spiraled, stressing that "even wars have rules" and warning against using hostages as human shields.
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Egypt
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Society
10/12/2023 5:24:10 PM
The Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRI) held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to outline a plan to support the rights of Palestinians, read an ANNHRI statement on Thursday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/11/2023 12:24:58 AM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Israel’s blockade of Gaza saying cutting off electricity and water is against the Palestinians’ human rights.
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World
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Region
10/10/2023 1:03:47 PM
Israel's total siege of the Gaza Strip, depriving civilians of goods essential for survival, is banned under international law, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/6/2023 5:10:26 PM
The House of Representatives said that the European Parliament’s recent resolution on Egypt’s political and human rights affairs reveals prejudice against the country’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for December.
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World
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Region
10/5/2023 3:08:56 PM
Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations as an increasing number of President Kais Saied's opponents are arrested and several in prison stage hunger strikes.
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World
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War in Sudan
10/4/2023 4:01:47 PM
Four Western countries floated a proposal Wednesday for the United Nations’ top human rights body to appoint a team of experts to monitor and report on abuses and rights violations in war-wracked Sudan.
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Business
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Energy
10/3/2023 5:31:12 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN climate change high level champion for Egypt, said that a clean and healthy environment is essential to the human rights to life, health, water, food, housing, and a decent standard of living.
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World
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Africa
10/3/2023 5:30:45 PM
There is an "overwhelming risk" that human rights atrocities will continue in Ethiopia, United Nations-backed investigators probing the situation in the country said Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/1/2023 12:02:49 PM
Egyptian authorities released Saturday 60 pretrial detainees pending investigation in various cases related to spreading false news and misuse of social media, renowned human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced.
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World
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Region
10/1/2023 9:40:49 AM
Iranian security forces made dozens of arrests Saturday as protesters in the southeast commemorated the killing of dozens of demonstrators in the region one year ago, human rights groups said.
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Egypt
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Society
9/29/2023 4:32:41 PM
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a veteran Egyptian-American sociologist and democracy and human-rights advocate, died on Friday at the age of 85.
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World
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Africa
9/19/2023 4:45:15 PM
U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace accord signed nearly a year ago to end a conflict that engulfed the country’s northern Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls, they found.
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World
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International
9/15/2023 5:55:17 PM
President Joe Biden marked the anniversary Friday of the Iranian woman who died while being held by the country's morality police by announcing the U.S. will impose more sanctions on Iranian people and firms that will target “some of Iran’s most egregious human rights abusers.”
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World
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International
9/15/2023 2:41:56 PM
The EU ombudsman demanded Friday that Brussels explain how it will ensure that its pact with Tunisia to curb migration will not breach human rights standards.
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World
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International
9/14/2023 11:24:59 AM
Families seeking asylum in the UK face inadequate living conditions in government-provided temporary housing, affecting their mental and physical health and access to children's education, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/12/2023 8:15:47 PM
The Arab Regional Forum in Beirut is building on the development agenda set out at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development 30 years ago
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World
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International
9/11/2023 1:42:21 PM
Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in numerous countries, the UN rights chief said Monday, decrying widespread misinformation sowing chaos and confusion to deny that reality.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/6/2023 9:49:00 AM
The National Council for Human Rights calls for meaningful reform to be implemented effectively.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/5/2023 9:16:00 AM
It is our right to ask the international human rights organisations to devote more attention to the situation in Israel, the so-called oasis of democracy in the Middle East.
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