Sources: Reuters via MSNBC
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk condemns Israel's human rights violations in Gaza and denounces Israeli settlements. 2025-02-26
United Nations human rights experts accuse Israel of carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that resulted in child malnutrition and death in Gaza. 2024-07-9
The Moscow City Court orders the closure of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Russia's oldest human rights organization. 2023-01-25
Canada imposes sanctions on 17 Iranian entities over human rights abuses, including former Foreign Relations Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. 2022-10-13
The United Nations General Assembly votes on a slate of new members of the Human Rights Council. The election of certain countries—China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan—draws strong criticism over their human rights records, including from UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, who described the election as "making a gang of arsonists into the fire brigade". 2020-10-13
25-year-old Australian footballer and refugee from Bahrain, Hakeem al-Araibi, is ordered to defend an extradition order back to Bahrain in a Bangkok court, after being detained upon arrival in Thailand for his honeymoon with his wife in November 2018. International community is treating it as a human rights issue; a campaign to free al-Araibi and return him to Australia is growing. 2019-02-4
The United Nations issues a report calling for an end to the nation's state of emergency, claiming it has been used to violate human rights. Turkey responds, calling the report "biased" and "unacceptable". 2018-03-20
China releases an annual report on human rights, criticizing the United States' human rights record, citing the arrest of Occupy Wall Street protesters and Internet restrictions. 2012-05-26
Amnesty International calls on the People's Republic of China to stop the harassment, arbitrary detention and torture of human rights lawyers. 2011-06-30
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee criticizes Iran for human rights abuses; Iranian diplomat Mohammad-Javad Larijani calls the UN censure a "politicization” of human rights. 2010-11-19