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Death penalty Middle East

Saudi Arabia: 100 people executed as authorities continue relentless ‘killing spree’

11 September 2023 | 12:38 pm

In August alone, Saudi Arabia executed an average of 4 people per week, including one Pakistani man...

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Climate justice Asia

Global: Cost of G20 inaction on climate and debt crises “potentially catastrophic”

8 September 2023 | 9:02 am

The climate crisis is inflicting immense harm on people while at the same time many...

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Global Climate Strike in Berlin

Climate justice North America

Global: Ruling in favour of activists in US climate lawsuit sets historic human rights-based precedent

17 August 2023 | 4:49 pm

Plaintiffs have proven that as children and youth, they are disproportionately harmed by fossil...

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Bedouin women sit next to the ruins of their demolished houses in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran, in the Negev desert, Israel, January 18, 2017. A resident and an Israeli policeman were killed during the operation. Israeli authorities said the policeman was killed in a car-ramming attack, while residences and activists claimed the driver was first shot dead by the police, with no apparent reason, before losing control of his car and driving towards the policemen. The Israeli state plans to completely demolish the village in order to build a Jewish-only town on that land.

Refugee rights Middle East

ISRAEL/OPT: 500 Palestinians facing forcible eviction, displacement, and segregation

28 July 2023 | 4:27 pm

It is yet another attempt by Israeli authorities to minimize the Palestinian presence in the...

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Abolish the death penalty

Death penalty Asia

Bangladesh: Execution of two men reveals callous disregard for the right to life

28 July 2023 | 4:12 pm

We condemn the recent executions and the persistent use of the death penalty in Bangladesh.

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The Iranian authorities are doubling down on their oppressive methods of policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying degrading compulsory veiling laws. The photo depicts Iranian women (top) and

Women's rights Asia

Iran: International community must stand with women and girls suffering intensifying oppression

26 July 2023 | 3:31 pm

The international community must not stand idly by as the Iranian authorities intensify...

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