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Syria: Three dead after Turkish raid on border outposts

INTERNATIONAL Three people have been killed when Turkish raids struck outposts in northern Syrian operated by government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to a British-based war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the three killed were wearing Syrian army uniform. Several other fighters were wounded in the attack near the Kurdish-held border town of Kobane, with some in critical condition, according to the Observatory, […]

19 September 2022

International

UAE is progressing well on human rights, UNDP report says

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says the United Arab Emirates has shown progress on human rights and is in the first place of MENA list. According to UNDP's 2021-2022 Human Development Report, during the era of post-Covid recovery, the UAE has had an opportunity to boost development in the region. "In the UAE, responsive governance, more diversified economies, inclusive societies and a green transformation critical to achieving sustainable, inclusive development […]

10 September 2022

International

UN experts slam Israel’s ‘harassment’ in West Bank

INTERNATIONAL UN experts on Tuesday condemned Israel's "harassment" of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers in the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta villages, where Israel operates a military zone. The special rapporteurs insisted such harassment must stop, and said residents continue to be threatened by the risk of forcible transfer, including mass forced evictions and arbitrary displacement. "Israeli authorities' hubris is proving without limits. They are even harassing human rights […]

4 August 2022

International

Libya’s Khalifa Haftar a no-show for US deposition in war crimes lawsuit

INTERNATIONAL Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar failed to appear for a deposition in a US federal court where he is at the centre of a lawsuit accusing him of war crimes and extrajudicial killings. Haftar was scheduled to appear on Monday in a long-sought video deposition where he was going to be asked about his alleged role in the extrajudicial killings and torture of Libyan civilians in the country's decade-long civil war. […]

11 May 2022

International

Amnesty calls on Saudi Arabia to end travel bans for released activists

INTERNATIONAL Saudi authorities must end the use of travel bans against human rights activists, journalists, and critics of the government, says Amnesty International. As part of a campaign launched on Monday, the London-based rights group cited the plight of 30 human rights defenders who were subject to lengthy travel bans once they had completed their prison sentences. "Saudi Arabian authorities' arbitrary use of travel bans against activists and human rights defenders […]

10 May 2022

Uncategorized

Human rights activist Rhoda Kadalie passes on

Human rights activist Rhoda Kadalie has died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles. She’s a former human rights commissioner. Kadalie was also the founder of the Gender Equity Unit at the University of the Western Cape. She had extensive experience as an academic. Kadalie was born in Cape Town, but spent the last few months in the US. In a Facebook post, her brother Bruce Kadalie says she […]

17 April 2022

News

A year on, politicians accused of hindering Beirut blast justice

INTERNATIONAL A year after a massive explosion at Beirut Port devastated the Lebanese capital, the victims’ grieving families are still waiting for answers, accountability and justice. More than 200 people were killed and 6,500 wounded when hundreds of tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate fertiliser stored in the port for six years ignited on August 4, 2020, in what was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. Human rights groups and […]

3 August 2021

Local

President Ramaphosa urges SA’s to unite to overcome the pandemic

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country's forebears' struggles for liberty and human rights for all have given South Africa the foundation and resilience to wage the battle it's facing with the coronavirus pandemic. He was delivering his Human Rights Day message to the nation. Ramaphosa says the pandemic has changed the lives of South Africans but in order to forge ahead, they must unite in fighting it: “It has almost […]

22 March 2021

International News

Campaigns to boycott Saudi Arabia G20 summit gain momentum

Human rights groups and activists have intensified calls to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit hosted by Saudi Arabia this weekend, demanding the kingdom release jailed activists. The summit, held virtually this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, is an annual meeting of the world's 20 largest economies. Although a different G20 country hosts the meeting each year, to the dismay of human rights defenders around the globe, Saudi Arabia […]

22 November 2020

Human rights

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