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 Police officers stand at the entrance of the district Judicial Complex in Islamabad, Pakistan November 28, 2023.

Islamabad High Court grants bail to Bushra Bibi after nine months of detention

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
 Arsen Ostrovsky

25 ViZionaries: Arsen Ostrovsky - No. 8

 Argentina's President Javier Milei addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 24, 2024.

Argentina's President Milei calls out UN's hypocrisy in condemning Israel

 Volker Turk United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights addresses the Human Rights Council on his report on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland,

The UN’s new Durban resolution is reinforcing racism

By Diana Krief , ANDRIA SPINDEL
 THE AMERICAN flag is set on fire at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington on the day that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress last month.

Endangering human rights: The pitfalls of cultural relativism and critical race theory

By Sabrina Soffer
 A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017.

Canada chief human rights commissioner resigns after controversy over Israel activity

By REUTERS
King Mohammed VI of Morocco reviews a guard of honour at the National palace during his state visit to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 19, 2016

Freed journalists call for release of all prisoners of conscience in Morocco

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in August 2016 against the execution by Iran of up to 20 Kurds suspected of attacking security forces.

Iran executes 29 prisoners in one day, rights groups report

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, delivers her rapport during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, on March 26, 2024.

Albanese 'unfit' to serve at UN, US Amb. Greenfield states after Netanyahu-Hitler comparison

FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks after Brazil won the bid to host the Women's World Cup, during the 74th FIFA Congress at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand, May 17, 2024.

Israel must be suspended for violating FIFA statutes, human rights lawyers say

By REUTERS
 European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends a press conference on the day of EU-Ukraine Association Council in Brussels, Belgium March 20, 2024.

EU imposes sanctions on five Israeli individuals and three entities

By REUTERS
 IDF soldier prays at the Western Wall.

US considers holding military aid over IDF promotions despite human rights violations - CNN

A view shows a symbolic ballot box for the presidential election in a street in Tehran, Iran June 29, 2024.

Iranian prisoners under duress to vote, threatened with lashings

 IDF troops operating in southern Gaza, June 21, 2024.

Incidents of IDF misconduct in the Gaza Strip prompt investigation

 Supporters of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran protest outside Stockholm District Court on the first day of the trial of Hamid Noury, 60, accused of involvement in the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, Stockholm, Sweden August 10, 2021.

Sweden frees convicted former Iranian official Hamid Noury in prisoner exchange deal

By REUTERS , Walla! , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A gavel and a block is pictured on the judge's bench in this illustration picture taken in the Sussex County Court of Chancery in Georgetown, Delaware, U.S., June 9, 2021.

Human rights groups push for UK to ban weapon sales to Israel

 Screenshot of Beit Issie Shapiro’s video for Conference Of States Parties to the CRPD.

Disability rights organizations campaign against UN double standard

 Religious leaders march to the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem in the interfaith march for human rights and peace on June 2, 2024.

Israeli-Arab religious leaders hold march for human rights, peace in Jerusalem