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Tag Archives: rights
UN report denies Israel’s right of self-defense, advocates arrest of Israelis instead
Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and any other “suspected” Israeli war criminals wherever and whenever you can get your hands on them. That is the shocking bottom line of a scandalous report released today from the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.…
UN Secretary-General weighs lumping Israel in with ISIS and Al Qaeda
This week Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz have posed a challenge for would-be presidents and all Americans: if the United Nations criminalizes Israel’s exercise of the right of self-defense it will pay a heavy price. The organization has no…
Iranian artist draws 12-year-plus prison sentence for cartoons ridiculing parliament
Atena Farghadani is facing a dozen years behind bars for drawing cartoons. (Justice for Iran)
An Iranian artist was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for drawing a cartoon disparaging members of parliament over their decision to restrict…
Iranian artist could draw lengthy prison term for cartoons ridiculing parliament
Atena Farghadani is facing a dozen years behind bars for drawing cartoons. (Justice for Iran)
Iran’s thin-skinned mullahs have jailed an artist who drew a cartoon disparaging members of parliament over their decision to restrict birth control for women.
Atena…
Judge slaps down U.N. on sex crimes reporting
The United Nations’ suspension of a top human rights official who passed evidence to French authorities of rape and sexual abuse of starving children in the Central African Republic by French and African troops last year was unlawful, a U.N.…
UN says Israel, not Iran, North Korea or Syria worst violator of human rights
What country deserves more condemnation for violating human rights than any other nation on earth? According to the U.N.’s top human rights body, that would be Israel.
Last week, Israel was the U.N.’s number one women’s rights violator. This week…
Islamic State torturing, killing, raping children in Iraq; government must do more to help, UN says
ISIS is beheading, crucifying and burying alive children and families of religious minorities in Iraq, according to a UN report, which called on government forces there to do more to protect them.
In a report issued Wednesday in Geneva, the…