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A Joint Statement of International and Local Organizations, Including Members of the Justice for Yemen Pact, on the Occasion of International Human Rights Day, Observed Every December 10th.

Brazil voted out the Bolsonaro government, but its impact on institutions hasn’t gone away.

Brazilian authorities are considering tougher measures against racism following a new incident at a Carrefour supermarket, it was reported.

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Brazil, with Committee Experts praising a reduction

DUBAI: Yemen has revealed that 200 hostages and kidnapped people were killed under systematic torture by Houthi militia in prisons over the past seven years, state news agency SABA reported. The ill-treatment and denial of primary health care needs led to the disability and death of hundreds of hostages held captive by the Houthis, the report added, quoting Jamal Al-Maamari,

At a glance The arrival of conservative president Jair Bolsonaro was like taking a sledgehammer to the enjoyment of human rights in Brazil, a country that already had difficulties respecting its obligations under the Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol (OPCAT). The new policies have aimed at dismantling the National Mechanism to Prevent and Combat Torture (MNCPT), including through a 2019 decision to stop obliging federal states to take into account the MNCPT’s recommen...

Turkey businessmans lawyers complain to UN after UAE tortures detainee Mehmet Ali Ozturk [eurovizyon] January 13, 2021 at 9:48 am Lawyers of Turkish businessman Mehmet Ali Ozturk, who has been detained in the UAE for nearly three years, have filed an urgent complaint to the United Nations accusing the Emirati authorities of torturing their client. On 20 February 2018, Ozturk was arrested in Dubai after arriving in the country with his wife, Amina Ozturk, to attend the Gulfood Manufacturing ...

Rights groups called on to pressure UAE to release Turkey businessman Protest against the UAE following the arrest of Turkish businessperson Mehmet Ali Ozturk on 11 December 2020 [Şebnem Coşkun/Anadolu Agency] December 17, 2020 at 4:18 pm Lawyers of Turkish businessman Mehmet Ali Ozturk, who has been detained in the UAE for three years, have applied to the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (HREIT) and the National Mechanism to Prevent and Combat Torture (MNCPT) to put pressu...