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Saudi Arabia is well known for the severe limits it imposes on women’s rights – the legal status of the woman being inferior to that of the man – in all fields, even in the simplest acts of daily life.

Human Rights Watch – (New York, January 18, 2018) – Afghanistan’s armed conflict took a high toll on civilians throughout the year, with insurgents carrying out particularly deadly suicide attacks in urban areas, Human Rights Watch said today in […]

Open Democracy – Christian extremism as a motivator for violence is often overlooked, while clinics providing abortion services are facing growing threats. Rising right-wing extremism in the United States appears to have breathed new life into militant […]

Human Rights Watch – World Report 2018 summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from late 2016 through November 2017. In his keynote essay, “The Pushback Against […]

Qantara – Although the protests in Tunisia are gradually dying down, the country′s political class still finds itself confronted with dissatisfaction from large sections of the population. Alongside political freedoms, the government now also needs to […]

Human Right Watch – The US government can use evidence that it may have obtained illegally – from methods ranging from old-fashioned wiretaps to sophisticated data sweeps – to prosecute people without telling them how it […]

The Guardian – Children caught in war zones are increasingly being used as weapons of war – recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide bombers, and used as human shields – the United Nations children’s agency has warned. […]