Human Rights

Abbas Attar, an Iranian-born photographer with Magnum who documented cataclysmic events throughout the world, including the Iranian revolution, and developed a particular interest in the role of religion in them, died in Paris. He was 74

Al-Marsad has published a book on the forgotten occupation of the Syrian Golan, telling the story of the native Syrian population who continue to suffer after fifty years of occupation by Israel. In Forgotten Occupation: Life […]

The brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl from a Muslim minority group is not just about gender violence.

The report is a far cry from the media frenzy that was caused by the announcement of symbolic reforms, such as that set out in the September 2017 Royal Decree giving Saudi women permission to drive.This report casts a harsh light on the scandalous situation of Saudi women HRDs.

Women and girls routinely face sexual and gender-based violence during war and its aftermath, maternal mortality is endemic in conflict-affected areas and amplifying women’s voices is critical to removing risks to their well-being.

As the long and tumultuous Syrian civil war grinds on, the cascade of death, displacement and physical destruction shows no signs of ending. Syrian being evacuated from Zamlka in Syria’s eastern Al-Ghouta province outside Damascus,Syria, […]

 121 Clicks Documenting people and the stories beyond the ordinary is one of the fascinating and daunting task in terms of Photojournalism. The Lives of those affected, the way they come into terms into reality […]

AAN  Author: Kate Clark More than one third of security detainees held by Afghan government forces are being tortured, according to the United Nations. The ICC may investigate this war crime. (Photo: Pajhwok) The International Criminal […]

Qantara – Fifteen years ago, on 20 March 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq. Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon describes the pain of watching his country disintegrate in the aftermath, made all […]

“The woman question,” she wrote, “is nothing more or less than a question of human rights. That the emancipation of woman means in reality the emancipation of the human being within her.’”