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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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World
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War in Sudan
7/29/2024 10:12:25 AM
Sudan's warring parties have committed widespread sexual violence against women and girls aged between nine and 60, and prevented survivors from accessing healthcare in the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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Egypt
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Politics
7/21/2024 1:24:44 PM
The National Dialogue's Board of Trustees will hold specialized sessions on Tuesday to discuss pretrial detention, its governing rules, and related issues as part of Egypt's National Human Rights Strategy.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/17/2024 2:41:29 PM
Hamas rejected the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on alleged war crimes committed by the resistance group on 7 October as "lies and blatant bias" towards Israel, demanding the HRW to withdraw its report and apologize.
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World
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International
7/9/2024 11:24:10 AM
The Taliban’s morality police are contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday. Edicts and some of the methods used to enforce them violated human rights and fundamental freedoms, the report said.
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World
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Africa
7/3/2024 10:08:34 AM
Ethiopian forces have committed "widespread attacks amounting to war crimes against medical professionals, patients, and health facilities" in the conflict-torn Amhara region, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
6/29/2024 11:28:59 AM
At least 30 people died in protests in Kenya this week sparked by a government drive to substantially raise taxes in the East African country, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.
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World
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Region
6/27/2024 10:31:24 PM
Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and the administration in the semi-autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region have been arbitrarily detaining and deporting Syrian refugees to their country, a leading international rights group said Thursday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/12/2024 1:51:00 PM
A UN investigation concluded on Wednesday that Israel has committed crimes against humanity during its war on Gaza, including that of extermination, starvation, and sexual violence.
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