Western World

The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow access to encrypted cloud data harms the privacy rights of users in the UK and worldwide, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.

Why Wests Sanctions Spree Directly Contradicts Its Own Climate Goals

Western sanctions appear to have hindered the growth of vulnerable developing economies and upended their progress in tackling climate change. One glaring example is Zimbabwe, whose economy has been crippled by severe restrictions, as Emmerson Mnanga...

Iran FM urges Sweden immediate release of Hamid Nouri

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a telephone conversation with his Swedish counterpart urged immediate release of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian national who has been incarcerated in Sweden, warning of the consequences of his illegal deten...

What were Indigenous soldiers fighting for?

They didn’t serve out of a ‘quaint, naive sense of subservience’ to the Crown, says veteran and expert.

Femicide: ‘Police often do not take complaints from attacked women seriously’

he 23-year-old woman of Spanish descent who was killed in Brussels last week by what is believed to be her ex-partner is the 19th case of femicide in Belgium this year. A new law should address the issue at its root. But is that enough? Brussels shel...

Sweden: Step up efforts to fight systemic racism, urge UN experts

Sweden should step up efforts to fight systemic racism and focus on strategies to restore trust between police and minority groups, said a UN Human Rights Council-appointed group of independent experts on advancing racial justice and equality, on Fri...

In Britain, a jail sentence is often a death sentence. What’s going on in our prisons?

Last year, 371 people died behind closed doors. We want justice for them – and an end to a cruel, complacent system.

UK households slipping into poverty

The United Kingdom has been warned of a gloomy economic outlook with a recession now a certainty as a consequence of higher energy prices. This is while new figures show around half of British adults are struggling to pay their energy bills, rent, or...

Al Wefaq boycotts elections due to repelling of reform in Bahrain

Al-Wefaq deputy Secretary General Sheikh Hussain al-Daihi has boycotted general election in Bahrain, condemning the Bahraini rulers for repelling real reform, pursuing political repression, and allowing the Zionist enemy to infiltrate in the Arab cou...

US jails rife with violence, abuse and overcrowding

In California, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles County jail of chaining mentally ill detainees to chairs for days at a time. In West Virginia, people held in the Southern Regional Jail sued the state, saying they found urine and semen in thei...

Children among thousands of refugees in prison-like facility in UK

Thousands of refugees, including children, are being held in prison-like conditions at a refugee detention center in England, and that has drawn concerns about the British government’s treatment of asylum-seekers.