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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.

Army judge rules that sex-assault case requires unanimous verdict for officer to be found guilty

A U.S. Army officer facing sexual assault charges will require a unanimous guilty verdict to be convicted in an upcoming court-martial, a judge ruled this week ahead of a potentially groundbreaking case.

French police face disciplinary hearings amid high numbers of femicide

Six French police officers face disciplinary hearings starting Tuesday accused of “administrative failings” in the gruesome case of Chahinez Daoud, who was killed by her husband last May. Daoud was one of 113 femicides in France in 2021, a number tha...

US Politicization of Human Rights Erodes Foundation of Human Rights Governance: Report

A report published on Monday revealed that the United States has brazenly resorted to human rights politicization to maintain its political interests and global hegemony.

Swiss-Based Rights Organization Urges UN Probe into Human Rights Abuses in Saudi Arabia

A human rights organization voiced serious concern about grave human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, calling on the United Nations to hold Saudi authorities to account over various forms of torture being perpetrated in the kingdom.

370 European Parliamentarians call for an end to forced dispossession of Palestinians, referencing inequality and apartheid

370 European Parliamentarians from 21 countries and respective Parliaments from across Europe and the European Parliament (including from the UK) have written to European Foreign Ministers and the European Union's High Representative of the Union for...

Gharibabadi blasts US for voting against HR resolutions at UN

The secretary of Iranian Judiciary's Human Rights Council Kazem Gharibabadi has lambasted the United States for voting against two human rights resolutions adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

France closes 20 more mosques in fresh assault on religious freedom

In a fresh assault on religious freedom of Muslims, French government has closed at least 21 more mosques in the country, accusing them of "promoting extremism".

Collective action needed to beat AIDS, pandemics of tomorrow: UN Chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2021, said that for beating AIDS and building resilience against the pandemics of tomorrow, "we need collective action."

Western states must let go of double standards to protect human rights: Tehran

A top Iranian human rights official has lamented the exploitation of human rights issues by certain countries as a tool to pressure other nations, saying human rights will be the main victim should Western countries insist on applying double standard...

Ganging up against Iran at UN fails dismally

Unable to reconcile with the reality that Iran's Islamic Revolution had succeeded against all odds to overthrow a despotic lackey of America and to successfully establish a progressive Islamic State, some Western allies led by the United States remai...