Turkey has now launched its offensive against the Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces in North East Syria, days after Donald Trump called President Tayyip Erdogan then tweeted that US troops would […]
On July 30th the UN issued an unusually angry briefing concerning the July 12 shooting of a nine-year-old Palestinian child, Abdul Rahman Shteiwi, by Israeli Security Forces during the weekly protest […]
On July 18th, in Westminster Hall, MPs lined up to list human rights abuses perpetrated by Saudi Arabia, particularly against women, and to ask the government to openly criticise Crown […]
More than 2,000 non-Iraqi ISIS suspects detained in Syria by Western-backed Syria Democratic Forces may soon be transferred to Iraq for prosecution, since most of their countries are refusing to […]
When might we draw the line and refuse to supply weapons to another State? Egypt might be a case for consideration. For the last 6 years a war has been […]
On April 9th President Trump spoke to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by phone, discussing the Kingdom’s role in Middle East stability, continued pressure on Iran and human rights […]
The last time the doctor visited Brunei a bunch of British soldiers got off the plane… which may not seem relevant to Brunei Darussalam’s new penal code, but it is. […]
China doesn’t like criticism. In September 2013 a Chinese Human Rights lawyer, Cao Shunli, was arrested when trying to fly to Geneva to attend China’s last periodic review by the […]
Last week 84 Rohingya, Kachin and Karen Groups called on France to ensure the UN Security Council refers Myanmar to the International Criminal Court for genocide against Rohingya in Rakhine […]
A study calling for the retraction of Chinese scientific papers on organ transplantation because of unethical procurement of organs was published last week in the medical journal BMJ Open. Many […]
The prominent Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has just been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for “subversion of state power.” His crime was defending political activists, […]
Bad news for Sri Lankan Tamils and, indeed, anyone who thinks rewarding war criminals is basically bad. On January 10th Major General Shavendra Silva was appointed Chief of Staff of […]
