Six years after the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, 1,360 children remain separated from their parents, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The 135-page report highlights the lasting trauma inflicted by the policy, describing it as “calculated cruelty”. Children were forcibly taken from their parents, many left in angu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah Port in western Yemen as a “possible war crime.” At least six civilians were killed and over 80 others injured on July 20 when Israeli warplanes struck more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in […]
A report by Human Rights Watch and the Drug Policy Alliance has revealed the harsh realities of America’s drug policies and deportation practices. The report reveals that thousands face deportation annually for past drug offenses, despite these acts no longer being crimes in many states. The report underscores how outdated federal laws d...
The Chinese government has banned Uyghurs from using social media. threatening arrests, hefty fines, and other penalties. The ban forbids Uyghurs using social media apps like TikTok. Access to platforms like Twitter and YouTube, as well as cryptocurrency trading, has also been restricted. Ilshat Hassan Kokbore of the World Uyghur Congress say...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Muhammad Al-Ghazali stood at the highest point on Al-Rashid Street in the central Gaza Strip, to receive an internet signal and communicate with his friends and relatives abroad. Residents of the besieged enclave are facing a devastating war aggravated by their inability to contact ambulance and emergency team...
SYDNEY / ISTANBUL (AA) An Israeli lobby group was behind the sacking of a journalist at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a report has claimed, citing a coordinated campaign which includes messaging on WhatsApp. It has triggered an in-house protest with staff threatening to walkout. Award-winning journalist and author Antoinette Lat...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel is using starvation as a “weapon of war” in Gaza by intentionally cutting people’s access to water and food, which is a war crime, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. “Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agric...
ANKARA (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said that Israel’s deadly strikes on journalists in Lebanon were an “apparently deliberate attack on civilians and thus a war crime.” “Two Israeli strikes on a group of Lebanese, American, and Iraqi journalists in south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, were apparently deliberate attacks on c...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said it could not confirm Israel’s claims that Hamas is using Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for military purposes. “The Israeli military claims that Hamas has its headquarters underneath al-Shifa hospital, and that Hamas military officials are inside the hospital. HRW cannot corroborate this...
– LONDON (AA) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official has said that the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza is “yet another war crime committed by the Israeli army, in a list that keeps getting longer, and longer, and longer.” “When will Western powers open their eyes and pressure their ally to […]
