On Thursday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” Amnesty International Adviser Kristine Beckerle, who is one of the authors of the group’s report accusing Israel of genocide responded to arguments that Israel didn’t start the war, Hamas did on October
Amnesty International, the global human rights organization, accused Israel of “genocide” in a report Thursday — but the Israeli branch of the group disagreed, saying it was never consulted and accusing the main organization of bias.
A Labour politician has been suspended after calling for political opponents to have their throat cuts at a left-wing rally in London.
The parliament in Finland has approved a bill that would allow its border guards to turn back illegal migrants from Russia.
Authorities in Mexico are investigating the murder of a journalist whose body was found with his hands tied and with tape over his eyes in the southern state of Chiapas. The killing comes as international press freedom organizations continue to label Mexico as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for news workers.
The United Nations invited the jihadist Taliban terrorist organization to a two-day conference on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, next weekend, its third such meeting since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
NGO Amnesty International is facing widespread mockery over a post eulogizing a deceased Palestinian terrorist as a mere “writer.”
Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists are calling out Mexico’s government over the ongoing violence against journalists and the lack of protection given to them — even those who have been placed under a police program for targeted journalists.
The Associated Press (AP) on Sunday denounced the “shocking level of censorship” imposed by the United Arab Emirate (UAE) on the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai. The AP was mortified by “sharp restrictions on what demonstrators could say, where they could walk and what their signs could portray.”
Government said it is imposing a ban on providing shelter for single men seeking asylum, arguing for families, women and children first.
Nigel Farage called for “mass sackings” in the deep state after a former government asylum official joined a pro-mass migration charity.
Amnesty International issued an “urgent” call for Cuba to free Yoruba leader Loreto Hernández García and his wife, Donaida Pérez Paseiro.
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein blasted the Biden administration’s new government strategy for combating antisemitism, deeming it both “phony” and “dangerous,” as well as a “frightening disgrace that enables antisemitism.”
The European Commission faces accusations it is paying for itself to be lobbied by “far-left… radical” groups.
An abortion activist has been sentenced for providing abortion pills by post, the first such case after reforms by Poland’s government.
Climate activists reacted with equal measures of anger and despair Sunday at the news oil giant Saudi Aramco achieved record profits totalling $161.1 billion last year as global demand for fossil fuels shows no sign of abating anytime soon.
Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage.
Several activist non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have alleged French authorities tried to deport two Syrian nationals back to Syria, claiming the attempts are illegal under international law.
The Swedish branch of Amnesty has slammed the authorities after 12 climate extremists were sentenced for blocking an ambulance from travelling down a road.
Amnesty International (AI) said on Sunday that it “deeply regrets the distress and anger” caused by a press release last Thursday in which the group accused Ukrainian forces of deliberately endangering civilians by exposing them to Russian attacks.
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday asked Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong to intervene on behalf of human rights activist Drew Pavlou, a 23-year-old Australian national arrested in London for allegedly emailing a bomb threat to the Chinese Embassy.
Soros-linked NGO activists, anti-capitalists, and furries reportedly marched in Dublin on Saturday to “assert” their pro-transgenderism “truth” to the population.
The UK government will finally be able to overrule European judges on the deportation of migrants under reforms to human rights rules.
The Taliban’s “General Directorate of Intelligence” on Tuesday arrested Afghan fashion model and YouTube celebrity Ajmal Haqiqi and three of his friends for “insulting Islamic sacred values.”
According to a Chinese police officer quoted by Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Wednesday, the Chinese government has issued directives across the Xinjiang region forbidding its captive population, the Uyghur Muslims, from discussing the brainwashing camps in their province.
Israel on Tuesday swore in the first Arab Muslim to serve as in the country’s highest court as a Supreme Court justice.
Amnesty International reported Wednesday that 109 women remain unaccounted eight years after the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from a state-run secondary school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a joint report on Wednesday in which they alleged Ethiopia’s federal government has perpetrated “ethnic cleansing … crimes against humanity and war crimes” in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region as part of a civil war between Addis Ababa and the separatist militia known as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Amnesty International U.S. Director Paul O’Brien said he regretted “representing the views of the Jewish people” after previously saying his organization is opposed to Israel continuing to exist as a Jewish state.
An Amnesty International official said his organization is opposed to Israel continuing to exist as a Jewish state, prompting a rare condemnation from all 25 Jewish House Democrats.
Israel on Monday appointed an Arab Muslim to serve as in the country’s highest court as one of four new Supreme Court justices.
The executive director of Amnesty International’s Israel branch came out against the human rights organization’s recent report accusing Israel of apartheid, saying it was doing more harm than good.
The leader of the Arab Islamist Ra’am party in the Israeli government, Mansour Abbas, denied Israel was an “apartheid state,” adding Jews are Arabs were “creating miracles” by ruling side by side in a coalition for the first time in Israel’s history.
UK-based Amnesty International has released a new report accusing Israel is of apartheid against the Palestinians. Here are five reasons why the claim is so preposterous and even hurtful to those who suffered under real apartheid rule.
Amnesty International UK has come under fire by Israel as well as U.S. Jewry for a report accusing Israel of “the crime against humanity of apartheid.”
The human rights organization Amnesty International denounced the Taliban for weeks of “repeated war crimes and relentless bloodshed” on Wednesday in an analysis of the final days of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
Afghanistan’s terrorist Taliban leaders issued a decree outlining the rights of women under the regime, but getting an education or finding a job was not included.
Amnesty International accused Pfizer, a U.S.-based multinational pharmaceutical giant, on Thursday of using “misleading language” to suggest it has supplied poor countries with greater supplies of coronavirus vaccines than it actually has.
The family of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, detained since May 2020 for her reporting from the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, is warning that she is severely underweight from a hunger strike and “may not survive the coming cold winter.”
Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday it will close its office in Hong Kong by the end of the year.
