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World
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Africa
4/4/2024 1:20:22 PM
Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for the United Nations to investigate "war crimes" committed by the Ethiopian army in Amhara, a region that has been plagued by conflict.
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World
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Region
4/3/2024 3:54:06 PM
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Wednesday that the death toll from an Israeli air strike on Iran's consulate in Damascus this week had risen to 16.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/3/2024 1:08:22 PM
The UN Human Rights Council will consider a draft resolution on Friday calling for an arms embargo on Israel, citing the "plausible risk of genocide in Gaza".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/28/2024 5:05:00 PM
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the West Bank and Gaza, says that despite receiving threats, she is determined to expose that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/26/2024 11:11:51 PM
Egypt's National Council for Human Rights welcomed on Tuesday the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, which was reviewed during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/26/2024 2:22:11 PM
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, will deliver a report on Tuesday, to the UN Human Rights Council, saying that Israel has carried out acts of genocide in Gaza, and warning of "ethnic cleansing."
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
3/20/2024 8:10:08 PM
The Cairo Appeal Court dismissed on Wednesday the criminal lawsuit against five Egyptian human rights NGOs due to insufficient evidence of illegally receiving foreign funding.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/19/2024 3:25:02 PM
The UN said Tuesday that Israel's severe restrictions on aid into war-ravaged Gaza and its ongoing hostilities could amount to using starvation as a "weapon of war", which would be a "war crime".
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World
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Region
3/9/2024 12:16:10 PM
Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International Women’s Day.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/8/2024 12:42:43 PM
Expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes "a war crime" and risks eliminating "any practical possibility" of a viable Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday.
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World
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Africa
3/2/2024 1:35:33 PM
Human Rights Watch on Saturday called for a foreign-backed independent investigation into the killing of Chad's leading opposition figure, after Chad's main opposition party on Friday accused junta soldiers of having executed its leader "at point blank range" in an assault on the party's headquarters ahead of a long-promised May election.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/1/2024 9:21:00 PM
The Israeli occupation's raids persist in the Gaza Strip as the war enters its 147th day, with attacks targeting several residential areas in Al-Burej in the centre and Khan Younes in the South. Several countries and human rights organizations denounce Israel's heinous killing of at least 112 Palestinians waiting to receive emergency food assistance in northern Gaza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/29/2024 1:44:30 PM
Israel's planned ground assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip would contravene the orders issued by the United Nations' highest court, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/28/2024 8:05:19 PM
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed regret on Wednesday that the high-level segment of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meetings saw several international parties turn a blind eye to the human suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/27/2024 8:54:12 PM
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry on Tuesday blasted the international community's handling of the Gaza war, accusing them of applying double standards to violations of international human rights law by failing to hold Israel accountable.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/27/2024 1:58:00 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry condemned the disregard shown by some parties on Monday in their statements before the UN Human Rights Council in Genevan concerning the humanitarian suffering of Palestinians, describing it as "disgraceful."
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/27/2024 12:09:00 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry pushed for a ceasefire in Gaza and increased international support for the Palestinian people while meeting with his counterparts at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/26/2024 9:02:12 PM
Two human rights groups on Monday accused Israel of further limiting humanitarian aid into Gaza despite an order from the UN's top court.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/24/2024 7:53:38 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry will head to Geneva on Sunday to participate in the high-level segment (HLS) of the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the HLS of the Conference on Disarmament.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/23/2024 6:48:22 PM
The United Nations (UN) said on Friday gross human rights violations, possibly including war crimes, had been committed in Israel's war on Gaza.
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