31 July 2015

Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed 'by ultra-Orthodox Jew'

31 July 2015

Israeli police have arrested a man after six people were wounded in a stabbing at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem, the BBC reported.

30 July 2015
Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland condemns death sentence of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland condemns death sentence of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

30 July 2015

I condemn the decision by a Tripoli court to sentence Saif  al-Islam  Gaddafi and eight other defendants to death, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland said. 

Gaza 'Black Friday': Cutting edge investigation points to Israeli war crimes in Rafah

30 July 2015

New evidence showing that Israeli forces carried out war crimes in retaliation for the capture of an Israeli soldier has been released today in a joint report by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture.

The evidence, which includes detailed analysis of vast quantities of multimedia materials, suggests that the systematic and apparently deliberate nature of the air and ground attack on Rafah which killed at least 135 civilians, may also amount to crimes against humanity.

29 July 2015
Some '2,000' migrants try to storm Channel Tunnel terminal

Some '2,000' migrants try to storm Channel Tunnel terminal

29 July 2015

Lille (France) (AFP) — Attempts by migrants desperate to reach England through the Channel Tunnel reached a new peak overnight, as about 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Eurotunnel terminal in the French port town of Calais.

28 July 2015

Hungary opposition condemns PM Orbán’s link between migrants and terrorism

28 July 2015

Hungary’s prime minister has said there is a clear link between illegal migrants entering Europe and the threat of terrorism.

UN Committee against Torture opens its fifty-fifth session

28 July 2015

On 27 July 2015 the UN Committee against Torture opened its  fifty-fifth  session. In an opening statement, Carla Edelenbos, a representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the appalling situation of migrants had been highlighted by the High Commissioner at the interactive dialogue on the human rights of migrants at the  twenty-ninth  session of the Human Rights Council in June 2015.

27 July 2015
France: New surveillance law a major blow to human rights

France: New surveillance law a major blow to human rights

27 July 2015

Extensive powers allowing French authorities to monitor people online and offline will come into force in a matter of days after the country’s highest constitutional authority endorsed all but three sections of a new surveillance law, Amnesty International said.

24 July 2015

Saudi Arabia detained suspected of connection with ISIS

24 July 2015

According to Star (Turkey), Saudi Arabia held a  large-scale  operation against extremists. The operation was conducted after an ISIS terrorist attack occurred in Iraq on Eid  al-Fitr , a sacred day for the Muslims. Over 120 died, including women and children, about 150 were injured as a result of the attack.

23 July 2015
Campaign group accuses Liberia palm oil firm of exploiting Ebola crisis

Campaign group accuses Liberia palm oil firm of exploiting Ebola crisis

23 July 2015

DAKAR, July 23 (Reuters) —  Anti-corruption  campaign group Global Witness on Thursday accused palm oil company Golden Veroleum of taking advantage of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia to double the size of its plantation.

22 July 2015
Yemen: first UN food aid arrives in Aden as intense fighting takes ‘serious toll’ on civilians

Yemen: first UN food aid arrives in Aden as intense fighting takes ‘serious toll’ on civilians

22 July 2015

21 July 2015 — In "a major breakthrough," the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that its first ship since conflict erupted in Yemen in March berthed today in the port of Aden after repeated attempts to reach huge numbers of increasingly desperate people and as intense fighting continues to take a serious toll on civilians.