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 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference at the end of the G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri island, Italy, April 19, 2024.

Blinken: No double standard on Israel and human rights

People enter the State Department Building in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2017.

Israeli gov't committed human rights abuses in 2023, State Department says

 People attend the rally "Against terror and antisemitism! Solidarity with Israel" at Brandenburg Gate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, Germany October 22, 2023.

Rights groups file new case against German arms export to Israel

By REUTERS
 A guard is seen at an observation tower along a wall of Gilboa Prison, from where six Palestinian prisoners escaped, on September 6.

Amnesty International mourns death of terror prisoner as 'Palestinian writer'

 TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves a news conference during a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, last year.

NATO needs to take punitive measures against Erdogan, here's why

 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Bakytzhan Sagintayev at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 19, 2024.

UN says Russia consolidates control of occupied Ukraine with ‘climate of fear’

By REUTERS
 Eric Rosenthal, founder and executive director of Disability Rights International, testifies on Dec. 6, 2022, before a Senate committee in support of the International Children with Disabilities Protection Act.

Meet the Jewish activist fighting for the rights of people with disabilities

By LARRY LUXNER/JTA
 Women hold a picture of Mahsa Amini during a sit-in following her death, at Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon September 21, 2022

Mahsa Amini's death in Iran custody was 'unlawful', says UN mission

By REUTERS
 Military vehicles drive on a street during an Israeli raid at Tulkarm, in the West Bank, February 18, 2024.

Italy rejects extradition to Israel of Palestinian over rights fears

By REUTERS
 Udo Bullmann (L) visits Israeli Knesset

Edelstein: Russian gulags had better conditions than Gaza hostages have

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.

Iranian executions up by 43% since last year, most unannounced

A Chinese pagoda overlooks the old city in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, May 4, 2021.

Top official from China's Xinjiang says 'Sinicization' of Islam 'inevitable'

By REUTERS
 A woman in Zahedan holds a sign reading "What you’ve washed with blood is my dear soul."

Iranian Baloch human rights activist at risk of deportation from Sweden - report

 Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists hit and caused damage in Holon, December 11, 2023.

UN Special Rapporteur 'unaware' of rocket attacks on Israel

 Israeli soldiers operate next to the UNRWA headquarters, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024.

UNRWA draft report alleges beatings, sexual abuse of Gazan detainees - NYT

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against job cuts by UNRWA, in Gaza City September 19, 2018.

House Foreign Affairs Committee calls for UNRWA head to testify in Congressional hearing

 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023.

UN's Turk calls Gaza war a carnage, urges arms embargo on Israel

 MELIKA PAZOUKI (left) and Lily Farhadpour in ‘My Favourite Cake.’

Iran bans directors from attending Berlin premiere of their movie