August 3, 2021
UN Report on Torture in Iraqi Prisons
Iraq’s legal framework to prevent ill-treatment, developed over several years, now needs to be translated into effective measures to tackle ...
June 2, 2021
UN: discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop
A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel’s Palestinian minority by extreme right-wing and vigilante groups, including ...
May 18, 2021
UN: appeals for respect international law
“Over the past 10 days, the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has deteriorated at an alarming rate,” she said ...
May 18, 2021
Israël-Palestine: l’ONU a appelé au strict respect du droit international
La Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme, Michelle Bachelet a appelé toutes les parties à prendre des mesures pour ...
March 23, 2021
UN: Turkey’s withdrawing from Istanbul Convention is shocking
Turkey’s announcement at the weekend that it was withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, an important regional human rights treaty on ...
December 29, 2020
UN expert: US must remove sanctions and allow Syria to rebuild
UN human rights expert Alena Douhan today called on the United States to remove unilateral sanctions which may inhibit rebuilding of Syria’s ...
December 23, 2020
Une semaine pas très spéciale à Diyarbakir
C’est un dur métier d’être défenseur.e des droits ou avocat.e à Diyarbakir. Pour celles et ceux qui ne la connaissent pas, Diyarbakir ...
November 25, 2020
UN experts call on Iran to halt execution of Ahmadreza Djalali
UN human rights experts* said they were alarmed by reports that Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has reportedly been transferred to ...
November 17, 2020
Trump’s record of criminal activities and Saudi complicity in child massacres in Yemen
In late January 2017, just weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in as commander-in-chief, U.S. troops carried out a raid in the southwestern ...
October 29, 2020
IADL demands freedom for Maher al-Akhras
The calls for freedom for imprisoned Palestinian hunger striker Maher al-Akhras are growing as he enters his 92nd day of hunger ...