Outspoken ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali has taken her critics in Australia to task after she was forced to cancel a speaking tour Down Under because of security fears.
The Jewish state is a global human rights leader that is serving as an example to others as terrorism continues to plague the world, a prominent former Israeli Supreme Court president said this week, the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon reported.
“Law of the jungle,” “extreme individualism” plague human rights in the U.S., according to a North Korea think tank’s white paper.”
A Turkish court on Tuesday kept in place a foreign travel ban for a top novelist charged with terror propaganda in a controversial case that has intensified concerns over freedom of speech in the country.
The United Nations Human Rights Office issued a devastating report on Friday on widespread human rights violations in Turkey as part of a government security crackdown between July 2015 and December 2016.
The Chinese government has published its semi-annual human rights report on the United States, condemning America for a variety of alleged “human rights violations” which include widespread gun ownership, “angry” voters in the 2016 elections, and “gunshots lingering in people’s ears behind the Statue of Liberty.”
Hamell Santiago Maz Hernández, a Cuban dissident awaiting trial in the nation’s most notorious maximum security prison on a charge of “disrespect” for the Revolution, died of mysterious circumstances in late February. Now, fellow dissidents at the prison fear eating government-issued food, worried that the government poisoned their colleague.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro appears to be attempting to ingratiate himself with his American counterpart Donald Trump, praising the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday as “the first time I hear a U.S. president speak of the struggle against drug trafficking.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will in the coming months exert pressure on the international community to take actions against Israel, a senior adviser to Abbas said on Tuesday.
A pastor and his wife have been arrested in Cuba for homeschooling their children, according to Mike Donnelly, director of global outreach for the Home School Legal Defense Association, a U.S.-based organization that has offered legal assistance to homeschooling families since 1983.
North Korea has lashed out against its most prominent ally in the international community, China, in a commentary decrying its “friendly neighbor” for adhering to United Nations sanctions and halting the import of coal from the communist hermit kingdom.
President Barack Obama’s concessions to Cuba opened the way for U.S. airlines to do business with the communist dictatorship. After announcing frequent flights to the island over a year ago, however, many major airlines have found the demand they expected from U.S. tourists simply is not there.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has denounced as “fake news” a report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International highlighting depraved atrocities his regime allegedly authorized, including “mass hangings” and torture of prisoners.
The communist government of Cuba arrested nearly 500 people for political reasons in January, most members of peaceful dissident movements attempting to practice their religion or silently expressing dissent with the Castro regime.
In his first session with reporters since Amnesty International published a report accusing his government of human rights atrocities against political dissidents, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said he would immediately step aside if he lost an election.
We don’t have capital punishment in Britain anymore but if we did, the disgraced “human rights” lawyer Phil Shiner would make a prime candidate for the drop.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the immediate liberation of prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet Concepción, a member of an anti-Communist Christian group arrested in Cuba shortly after the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday urged Turkey to sustain its democracy and abide by human rights standards during her meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that also drew promises of closer defense cooperation
Reaching a new acme in irresponsible fear-mongering, the far-left Guardian newspaper is now warning that President Donald Trump intends to obliterate the human rights movement, knocking humanity back to the pre-Civil Rights era.
Activists helping Cuban-American families in Miami say that Cuban citizens landing in the United States with legal tourist visas are being detained and deported following President Barack Obama’s repeal of the “wet foot/dry foot” immigration policy this month.
Coldplay, one of the world’s leading rock bands, will reportedly come to the holy land in November 2017 to play two joint “peace concerts” for Israelis and Palestinians.
A dual Canadian citizen was arrested last week in southern Kars, Turkey, after posting multiple Facebook updates insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling him “America’s biyatch” and an “idiot.”
Şenol Buran, the cook in charge of the cafeteria at Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, was arrested this week after telling a police officer he would refuse to serve tea to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if he ever visited the newspaper’s offices.
An attorney representing Joshua Holt, an American arrested in Venezuela under dubious “terrorism” charges, says she has not been allowed to see him for most of December, since the fourth scheduled hearing the judge in his case chose not to attend.
Berta Soler, the leader of the Cuban anti-communist group Ladies in White, reported the violent arrests of about 40 dissidents earlier this week who attempted to gather in a public park. The women were beaten, some severely, for trying to meet.
Danilo Maldonado Machado, the Cuban graffiti artist known as “El Sexto,” remains in prison to serve at least 60 days for his public celebration of the death of Fidel Castro on the streets of Havana. Maldonado has snuck a letter to the Cuban people out of prison, urging them to “demystify” the “murderer” Castro.
I was sorely disappointed to see Boeing selling its soul for $17 billion for 80 jets to Iran. This is blood money, and Boeing knows it.
The D.C. lobbyist collective Engage Cuba is promoting a letter, allegedly signed by “small business” entrepreneurs in Cuba, urging President-elect Donald Trump not to undo his predecessor Barack Obama’s favorable diplomatic overtures to the Castro regime.
Bannon and those close to President-elect Trump are uniquely situated to introducn a new American language of human rights that was sorely ignored by President Obama as he cozied up to dictators, making a mockety of American values.
President Barack Obama’s “normalization” policy towards dictator Raúl Castro and death of the latter’s elder brother Fidel have put Cuba on the road to tallying over 10,000 politically-motivated arrests in 2016, according to an NGO tracking human rights violations on the island.
Following his arrest Friday night, Cuban anti-communist graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado has received severe beating in prison, where he is being detained on no charges. Maldonado took to the streets of Havana Friday to celebrate the death of dictator Fidel Castro, spray-painting the phrase “he’s gone” on the outside of a building.
A European Council directive to curb the ability of terrorists to plot attacks is being opposed by civil liberties groups including Amnesty International, who say it undermines human rights and unfairly targets ethnic minorities.
The international human rights organization Amnesty International is slamming Kellogg’s and other companies that it says are profiting from child labor and other exploitative practices.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office has confirmed that he will not be attending the funeral of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a man Trudeau has called a “larger-than-life” leader and “legendary revolutionary.” The Prime Minister’s office issued a statement only
Pope Francis sent a telegram to Cuban President Raúl Castro Saturday, expressing his “sentiments of sorrow” over the death of Raúl’s brother, former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Fidel had always derived special pleasure from sending helicopters to drop sandbags onto the rafts of would-be escapees from his prison-island, or to just gun them all down. The Tugboat Massacre, however, proved to be a special delight for him, because there were children involved.
Canada’s Globe and Mail has revealed that leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a fundraiser at a Chinese-Canadian millionaire’s mansion shortly before businessman Zhang Bin donated one million Canadian dollars to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro said he “aspires, expects, and will work for” a friendly relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, despite Trump emphasizing support for Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition in his campaign platform.
The communist regime of Cuba, in an apparent attempt to curry international favor, has announced it will pardon 787 common criminals in response to Pope Francis’s call for mercy towards the imprisoned. There is no indication any of these are prisoners of conscience, as Havana officially denies the existence of political prisoners.
The residents of Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo received a text Sunday, believed to have come from the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, demanding they leave the city or perish when a “strategically planned assault using high precision weapons occurs within 24 hours.”
