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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/4/2024 11:16:00 PM
Having stood idly by for 11 months while Israel killed nearly 41,000 Palestinians, two thirds of whom are women and children, leaders of the supposedly civilised, democratic West are now making strongly worded, human rights preaching statements against the death of six Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza early this week.
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World
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Region
9/4/2024 11:01:52 AM
European aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights, according to a global watchdog report published Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.
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World
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Africa
9/2/2024 2:08:17 PM
A massive oil project in Uganda co-owned by French group TotalEnergies and China's CNOOC is mired in reports of sexual violence, forced evictions and environmental damage, climate activists said Monday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/27/2024 11:07:54 PM
Gamal Essam El-Din reviews a new report on human rights developments in Egypt.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/26/2024 7:31:39 PM
Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated Monday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should investigate attacks and detentions of Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza.
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Egypt
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Politics
8/22/2024 5:56:44 PM
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) called on Thursday for the government to fully comply with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's directives on reforming pretrial detention and the criminal justice system, especially reducing the maximum periods of pretrial detention.
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World
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International
8/21/2024 1:15:08 PM
The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan has been barred from entering the country, a diplomatic source told AFP on Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/20/2024 6:38:13 PM
The National Dialogue entered a new phase this week with the submission of its recommendations on pretrial detention to the president.
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World
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Region
8/19/2024 1:20:22 PM
An Israeli air raid last month on a key Yemeni rebel-held port was a "possible war crime" that has threatened food and aid supply for millions, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/15/2024 9:20:55 PM
The UN human rights chief Thursday deplored the "grim milestone" of 40,000 Palestinians reported killed in Israel's 10-month assault on Gaza, accusing the country's military of breaking the "rules of war".
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/13/2024 9:50:40 PM
President Al-Sisi’s decision to pardon 600 prisoners was welcomed by political parties, MPs, and human rights organisations, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/12/2024 4:25:19 PM
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese emphasized in an interview with Ahram Online the intentional Israeli genocide in Gaza with the support of Western weapons, stressing the need to impose sanctions on Israel.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/10/2024 6:28:56 PM
The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) has denounced the Israeli massacre at Al-Tab'een School in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City as part of the occupation forces' strategy to undermine the international efforts to reach a ceasefire and end the war on the strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/10/2024 1:04:00 PM
Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Friday with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and informed him that Washington decided to end its investigation into Israel's "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank and will not impose sanctions on the army unit, according to two senior US and Israeli officials speaking to Axios.
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World
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Region
8/8/2024 6:02:13 PM
Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Arab Gulf states of poorly protecting migrant workers exposed to severe heat stress as climate change threatens to make already-sizzling summers hotter and longer.
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Egypt
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Politics
8/8/2024 5:24:20 PM
The National Council for Human Rights welcomed President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s decree to pardon 600 individuals convicted in various cases on Thursday, describing the move as in line with advancing the National Human Rights Strategy.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/6/2024 11:00:11 PM
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are facing systematic abuse and torture in Israeli jails, according to a report released by an Israeli human rights group on Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
8/6/2024 5:05:49 PM
Ethiopia is failing to halt significant human rights violations in conflict zones, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as Human Rights Watch condemned the detention of the brother of a murdered opposition leader.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/31/2024 9:52:44 AM
The U.N. human rights office issued a report Wednesday saying Palestinian detainees taken by Israeli authorities since Oct. 7 have faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, and other torture and mistreatment.
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World
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Africa
7/30/2024 4:49:08 PM
The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country’s biggest national parks, according to the African Union's commission on human rights.
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