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Lebanese authorities should transfer the prosecution of security force members charged in the torture and murder of a Syrian refugee from inherently unfair military courts to the ordinary criminal courts.

A federal district court has issued an order that, if upheld on appeal, would halt the scheduled September 22, 2022 execution of Alabama death-row…

CODEPINK is a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs.

Caracas, Apr 6 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela is currently working in United Nations (UN) agencies to consolidate the defense of Human Rights, Hector Constant, Permanent Representative of this South American country to the multilateral organization, said.

Two human rights organizations file a complaint at the United Nations against arbitrary executions in Saudi Arabia.

“Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” – George Herbert Bangladesh has taken an increasingly regressive approach on human rights in the last few years. In December 2021, allegati...

As a private military firm, the Wagner Group has been used to buttress government operations or fight insurgencies in CAR, Mozambique, Sudan and Libya.

Statement From The Association of Victims’ Families of Flight PS752: Canada’s Forensic Examination and Assessment of the Downing of Flight PS752 Reveals Iran’s Crimes, Obfuscations and Lies GlobeNewswire June 24, 2021 TORONTO, June 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Association of the Families of Flight PS752 Victims (the Association) welcomes the Government...

Since his death, much has been written of Christof’s sterling legal career and the manner in which he pioneered human rights in South Africa, Africa and internationally. His role as a leading scholar of regional human rights law and a practitioner serving as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (2010 to 2016) and as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2017 to 2020) has been celebrated.  All told, he was a giant of the human rights world. ...

The Real Problem with Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) Published: February 9, 2021 With the extremely rapid advances in technology made in the twenty-first century, many aspects of human life have transformed irrevocably. One of the most significant changes involves norms regarding the commission of intentional, premeditated homicide by governments. The practice is today termed “targeted killing,” but it differs only in the implement of death from what in centuries past was called �...