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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.

UN: EU needs to lift its people out of poverty

The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, urging the bloc to boldly rethink its whole socio-economic approac...

Thousands of Iranian patients ask UN SG to remove US sanctions for untroubled access to medicine

Thousands of Iranian patients with special needs in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for his efforts to lift the US unilateral sanctions against Iran which have blocked the country’s access to drugs and medical equipment...

Iran slams Germany for role in arming Saddam with chem. weapon

Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva lashed out at Germany for non-responding to its role in equipping former deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons during Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

UK asylum seekers threated to remain silent on bad conditions: Report

People held at temporary Home Office refugee camps are being threatened that their asylum claims will be harmed if they “misbehave”, according to testimony from site residents.

Unemployment rate hidden by UK government: Official

The full scale of Britain’s jobs crisis is being underestimated because hundreds of thousands of people are being missed by official unemployment figures, Gordon Brown has warned.

Discriminating against maternity leave-takers breaches Human Rights Act: UK charity

The government could be forced to award rebates to tens of thousands of self-employed women if a case accusing it of discriminating against those who have taken maternity leave is successful.

US and Zionist regime give Corona artificial respiration through sanctions and terror: HR official

Ali Bagheri said: while all the scientific and medical capacities in the world have become united to eradicate the corona virus, the US and the Zionist regime are trying to remove the effective role players in this combat by giving the corona virus a...

A French self-contradiction: Paris in list of selling arms to human rights violatorAs

French foreign minister has lately made baseless claims on Iran’s quite conventional, legitimate arms programs while his country has been clearly breaching the human rights by selling lots of arms and munitions to the Middle East countries to b...

Experts: UK criminal justice system suffers delay in cases

Urgent action is needed to tackle an “unprecedented backlog” of court cases built up during the pandemic that has “severe implications” for victims, the UK’s four justice chief inspectors have warned.

UK based company accused of modern slavery in Persian Gulf countries: Report

Migrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the United Arab Emirates have collectively been forced to pay millions of pounds in illegal fees to recruitment agents to secure their jobs, Guardian reported.