Egypt arrests human rights defender Patrick George Zaki
Yet another human rights defender has been arrested and temporarily disappeared in Egypt. An Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) researcher, Patrick George Zaki, was stopped in the Cairo airport on February More...
Pakistan professor Junaid Hafeez convicted for blasphemy laws over Facebook remarks about Muhammad
On December 21, Junaid Hafeez, a Muslim lecturer at the University of Bahauddin Zakriya in Multan, was sentenced to death by a trial court in Multan after being convicted under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. More...
Trump moving to end asylum of migrants from Central and South America
President Trump may be making headlines over the bickering House Democrats “the squad,” while moving to reverse the U.S. policy to end all asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico More...
Malaysia: Family of abducted Christian pastor, Raymond Koh call for an investigation, a task force
The family of abducted pastor Raymond Koh and a Christian group joined forces together on April 20 to urge Kuala Lumpur to act on the recommendations of an inquiry held by the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam). Raymond More...
Venezuela begins crackdown: bans protests, Hot Air asks ‘Where is Sean Penn’
Human rights, like food and medicine, are growing scarce in Venezuela. With a vote scheduled Sunday to move forward on socialist President Maduro’s plan to rewrite the country’s constitution, the government More...
New UK Report: Child trafficking more than doubled in just one year
A shocking new report indicates that child trafficking case in the United Kingdom have increased by 66 percent from 2016 to 2017. According to the report, by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, 2,118 minors More...
ICE extradited Nazi labor camp guard Jakiw Palij to Queens from Poland
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Attorney General More...
US exits UN Human Rights Council, Nikki Haley calls it a ‘cesspool of political bias’
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, pointing to the bias against Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers More...
State Department stops describing West Bank as ‘occupied’ by Israel
The State Department’s annual report on human rights violations around the world was published on Friday and has dropped reference to the “West Bank” in Israel as “occupied” for More...
Pakistani Christian girl, Asma Yacoob, dies after acid attack and being set on fire
A 25-year-old Christian woman has died following being set alight for refusing a Muslim man’s marriage proposal. Asma Yacoob was doused in acid before being set on fire by Rizwan Gujjar, 30. She been working More...
Human Rights Watch reveals Lebanon is evicting thousands of Syria refugees
Lebanon is using force to evict at least 3,664 Syrian refugees from their homes and expelled them from the municipalities, at thirteen at this time, due to their nationality and/or religion. Human Rights Watch More...
Human trafficking data portal to pull information together to battle sex slavery around the world
A new initiative, the world’s first human trafficking data portal, the Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC), has been created by IOM, the UN Migration Agency and Polaris. photo/ Sammis Reachers “We More...
Syrian War: Ghouta bombing leaves 300 dead, ‘flagrant war crimes,’ suffering children with no food, shelter, medicine
While the Syrian military says it is trying to liberate the area from terrorists, it has also been accused of targeting civilians with a death toll reported at 300 and rising. A doctor working in Eastern Ghouta More...
Outright attacks President Trump after UN address
On September 18 and 19, President Trump addressed world leaders at the opening of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly in New York. Jessica Stern, Executive Director of OutRight Action International, reacted More...
25 dead in Yemen from Saudi air strikes as ‘civil war’ rages on
At least 25 Yemenis have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a market in the latest in a string of deadly bombings in the conflict, now called a civil war as the Iran-backed Houthi control of Sanaa More...
Aya Hijazi released from Egypt prison: Sens. Graham and McCain applaud President Trump
U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and John McCain (R-Arizona) released the following statement on the release of Aya Hijazi and other humanitarian aid workers from prison in Egypt: “We join the entire More...
New Report: Yemen ravaged by Muslim extremists, food electricity and water are scarce
An amazing new analysis on Yemen reveals a shocking devastation from the war with radical Muslims, leaving most of the nation struggling to find food, water or have electricity. “It has been almost two years More...
Liberty Counsel sues Jacksonville over gender identity rules, protective classes for sexual orientation
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit today to invalidate the so-called Jacksonville “Human Rights Ordinance” or “HRO” because it was adopted in violation of Florida Statutes, the Jacksonville More...
Nadia Murad recounds human trafficking horrors in the hands of Islamic State Muslim men, raping girls as early as age nine
A human trafficking survivor is shocking the world as she details the horrors of captivity in the hands of Islamic State militants. Nadia Murad Basee Taha recounted the treatment of herself and thousands of other More...
Arizona woman, Patcharin Koibuchi, sentenced in human trafficking, smuggling case
An Arizona woman was sentenced Wednesday for her role a sex-trafficking ring involving young girls that was based in Tempe. The Arizona Attorney General’s office found Koibuchi organized a sex trafficking More...
