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SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights has called for enacting legislations that criminalize discrimination in Bahrain, allowing victims to sue those who discriminate against them. On Zero Discrimination Day and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the organization said that the Bahraini authorities are openly practicing discrimination …

 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, largest opposition political society, said that it documented 284 human rights violations practiced by the Bahraini authorities in January 2022. It said in a report (on February 3, 2022) that citizens participated in more than 84 peaceful protests in January in 28 villages, mainly Sanabis and …

 latest report argues autocrats around the world are getting desperate as opponents form coalitions to challenge them. Increasingly repressive and violent acts against civilian protests by autocratic leaders and military regimes around the world are signs of their desperation and weakening grip on power, Human Rights Watch says in its …

A senior Judiciary official on Tuesday condemned the assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientists as a gross human rights violation, saying the crime, which is believed to be tied to Israel, will not go unpunished. Kazem Gharibabadi, the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs and secretary of the country’s High Council …

As the crackdown on women in Saudi Arabia intensifies, the Human Rights Development Organization Sindh announced that 12 Saudi women have been detained by Saudi security forces this year. According to the human rights organization, 12 detained women have been arbitrarily detained as part of separate campaigns in different cities, …

 The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society delivered a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, indicating that the people of Bahrain are deprived of their most basic rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a statement on Wednesday, (December 22, 2021), Al-Wefaq said it tackled a …

Scott John Vitkovic on Saturday at the 3rd International Conference on American Human Rights in the view of the Supreme Leader in Qom, said: International mechanisms have so far failed to properly implement human rights standards and deal with human rights violators, and in many cases, such as the Palestinian …

| by Mohammad Saeid Taheri Moosavi*: Islam, as the most complete religion, has studied all the general and partial aspects of society, so it is natural that not only is it not indifferent to human rights issues, but it has presented it in the form of the general rights of …

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution against the Sri Lanka’s rights record. With 22 countries voting in favour of the text, 11 opposed and 14 abstaining, the 47-member council pointed to “trends emerging over the past year, which represent a clear early warning sign of a …

Saudi Arabia “drastically” reduced the number of people it put to death last year, according to a governmental body. The Saudi Human Rights Commission (SHRC) documented 27 executions in 2020, which it said represented an 85% drop compared to 2019. It attributed that in part to an unannounced moratorium on …