Human rights watch

“More than 40 years of systematic persecution of Iran’s Baha’is is a crime against humanity and should be judged as such,” a Baha’i community representative tells The Media Line.

"The EU’s cash-for-migration-control approach strengthens authoritarian rulers while betraying human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, and activists whose work involves great personal risk.”

HRW has targeted Israel with repeated and false accusations of “deliberately killing civilians,” committing war crimes, collective punishment, and disproportionate responses.

The substance is not banned as a chemical weapon, but it is prohibited by the Convention on the Prohibition of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, to which Israel is not a signatory.

This would mean a return to implementing many ordinary laws that were suspended as the government enacted many defense orders that touched every aspect of public life.

At its core, the apartheid lie depicts Jews who have returned to their ancestral homeland as “settler colonialists” and “foreign interlopers,” comparing them to South African whites during apartheid.

A planned overhaul of the judiciary by Israel's religious-nationalist government would be "a disaster" for human rights, HRW Executive Director Tirana Hassan said.

Although the UAE has resettled the vast majority of the Afghan refugees they have sheltered, Human Rights Watch is charging the Gulf nation with arbitrarily detaining as many as 2700 for over a year.

Rights groups, including HRW, have criticized Bahrain for holding international events as a way of distracting from repression of political opposition