Iranian Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir has announced that the death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd, the ringleader of the US-based Tondar terrorist group, was ready for execution, but he passed away before it could be carried out.

In June my colleague and I went to Doha, Qatar to speak with Palestinian patients and their family members who had been evacuated from Gaza. The medical professionals treating them told us that these were the most complex trauma cases they had ever seen.

College and university presidents across the US need to respect and protect the right to protest in support of Palestinian rights the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter.

The Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, today expressed concern about the human rights implications for women and girls of Germany’s Gender Self-Determination Act, which allows the change in legal sex based on self-identification, removing previous judicial an...

The United Nations children’s agency says at least one child a day has been killed in Lebanon over the past month as Israel intensifies its bombing campaign.

Some EU governments have long prevented the EU from taking measures to address the Israel’s grave abuses against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. A slew of recent rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) make this inaction no longer tenable, and will test the EU’s an...

After more than a year of war, Abu Razzak Al-Qassas and his family live in a makeshift shelter within a cemetery in the southern Gaza Strip, dependent on food donations for survival.

The UN Human Rights Office expressed concern Tuesday about Israel's attack on a multistory residential building sheltering children, women and the elderly in the northern Gaza Strip.

In July 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting, a convicted paedophile who had been released early from a four-year sentence for abducting and assaulting a young girl. The resulting outcry was one reason why New Labour, keen to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of cr...

The International Criminal Court ICC faces allegations of hypocrisy for delaying the arrest warrant requests for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for over five months, while the warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin was approved in just 24 days.