Educational Material
Photo credit Albaladnews.net Jordan has released its first comprehensive government report on human rights for the year 2014, covering human rights violations and claimed to aim at reforming legislations, practices and policies taken. In this... Read more
Human Rights
Memo To the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Requesting an Investigation in the Incident of Kidnapping and Murdering the Palestinian Boy, Mohammed Abu Khdeir On the dawn of Wednesday 2/7/2014, Israeli settlers kidnapped and murdered... Read more
Opinion
A social media campaign started in reaction to a judge’s decision to punish some criminals by dressing them in women’s traditional Kurdish clothing. By Iqbal Tamimi WeNews commentator Wednesday, September 11, 2013 (WOMENSENEWS)
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Herstory
Hooriyah Mashhoor, Minister of Human Rights in Yemen announced that she will be on hunger strike until her demands are met by releasing the young people detained without trial since the popular uprising in 2011
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News
An observation report has been released today detailing the findings of a team of lawyers who attempted to attend the trial of the 94 individuals charged with setting up an organisation to ‘overthrow the state’ in the United Arab... Read more
Opinion
It is interesting to receive two different news stories on the same day; both of which mentioned the Gulf state of Bahrain and the UK Parliament
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Herstory
Arab Women Media Watch Centre in UK (AWMW) congratulates the 2012 Olof Palme Prize winners, Radhia Nasraoui from Tunisia and Waleed Sami Abu Alkhair from Saudi Arabia both of whom are Arab lawyers, fighting for the freedoms and rights of... Read more
Opinion
The Palestinians Engineers in Lebanon make a good example of the marginalization that faces the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon because Lebanese laws prevent Palestinian engineers from working legally and decently
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News
The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted for the first time ever a resolution on human rights and the internet. Sweden, Brazil, Nigeria, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States are the initiative takers behind the resolution... Read more
News
Lebanese Parliament Member, Bahia Hariri, received at her office in Majdelyoun a delegation from the Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness), including the Director of the Association Mahmoud Hanafi, Public Relations and Media... Read more