Reports, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on human rights, including content about the social, economic, civil and political rights of people within countries and internationally, human rights law and the exercising of human rights law.
After the Israeli Parliament passed the law in 2018 referred to as a “breach of the duty of loyalty,” the Ministry of…
In December 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service,…
A Record-Setting Pace Wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Israel have drawn attention away from a stark fact: armed conflict is on the…
Damning evidence of the culture of Britainās special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to the battlefields of Afghanistan, was released…
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israelās general electionsālikely to…
My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. āGet out of there,ā she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria,…
It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village…
A System That Expands on Its Own The fear of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs), or sanctions, is not unfounded. For example: since…
The Palestinian national soccer team isnāt playing in this yearās World Cup. But despite a national and global crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest…
Armed Israeli settlers carrying US-made weapons held Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna at gunpoint in the occupied West Bank as he visited Palestinian communities to witness Israelās…
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