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A former head of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has said the country is enforcing an apartheid system against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Tamir Pardo has become the latest former senior Israeli official to claim Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid, a reference...

Human rights activists surrounded the Buenos Aires City Legislature on Monday to denounce an event honoring victims of armed leftist groups during the 1970s, when Argentina was engulfed by political violence. The tribute was arranged by Victoria Villaruel—the running-mate of right-wing populist...

While the government is on the verge of endorsing the Transitional Justice Bill, human rights defenders have expressed serious concern regarding the amendment in the provisions that are flawed and offend the essence of justice. They have demanded that errors in the bill be rectified before it is...

A Russian court has ordered the closure of the Sakharov Center—a prominent human rights organization that preserved the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov—in the latest move in a widespread crackdown on dissent. Moscow City Court said in a statement on Friday that it decided to...

The Nicaraguan government has seized a prominent Jesuit-run university—The Central American University—in the capital Managua, in President Daniel Ortega’s latest effort to lash out against the Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus—the Jesuit order that runs the school—told reporters that the...

Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has said the country’s planned referendum on an Indigenous “voice” to parliament should be called off because it is just “window dressing.” Thorpe, who is a Gunnai, Gunditjmara, and Djab Wurrung woman and a granddaughter of the revered Indigenous matriarch Alma Thorpe...

The King of Jordan approved a cybercrime bill that will crack down on online speech deemed harmful to national unity, a bill opposition lawmakers and human rights groups have warned against. King Abdullah II gave his approval on Saturday with the bill now slated as law and set to take effect one...

Sri Lanka’s president said Wednesday he will strengthen provincial governments to meet long-standing demands for self-rule from the ethnic Tamil minority, an issue that led to a bloody quarter-century civil war in the island nation. The provincial councils were introduced in Sri Lanka in 1987 after...

A report submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretary General has called for Iran to halt surging executions and rollback mandatory veiling. It was among a long list of recommendations in a report submitted last month pursuant to General Assembly resolution 77/228, in...

The United Nations' human rights office in Uganda will close this weekend after the East African country decided not to renew an agreement allowing it to operate, the UN's top human rights official said Friday. The closure comes amid concern over human rights violations including extrajudicial...