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8th December 2022
Afghanistan: Amnesty international condemns public execution by the Taliban

A protest in Iran against the morality police

6th December 2022
Iran: International community must not be deceived by dubious claims of disbanding ‘morality police’

Hanna Selivon standing in her destroyed home in Chernihiv, Ukraine. July 2022.

6th December 2022
Ukraine: Older people face heightened risks, unable to access housing in displacement following Russian invasion – new report

Salah Hammouri, French-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher at Palestinian NGO "Addameer (Conscience) for Prisoner Support and Human Rights", which supports political prisoners detained in Israel and in Palestinian prisons, and user of one of six devices reportedly hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, speaks before cameras at the offices of al-Haq Centre for Applied International Law in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 8, 2021. - An investigation by a European rights group published on November 8 found that Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used to hack the phones of staff of Palestinian civil society groups targeted by Israel. The revelations by Frontline Defenders -- confirmed by Amnesty International and the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab -- mark the latest development in the widening controversy surrounding six prominent Palestinian groups designated as "terrorist" organisations by Israel's defence ministry last month.

2nd December 2022
Israel/OPT: Deporting Salah Hammouri would constitute a war crime

Mahsa Amini, whose death triggered the protests in Iran

24th November 2022
Iran: Landmark UN fact-finding mission marks long-awaited turning point in tackling systematic impunity

Authorities in Russia clamp down on a protest.

24th November 2022
Russia: Journalists and independent monitors being silenced to stifle reporting of protests – new report

22nd November 2022
COP27: Loss and Damage fund is welcome but failure to deliver on phasing out fossil fuels is a huge setback

22nd November 2022
Russia: Court upholds acquittal of feminist artist on trial for ‘pornography’

The revolutionary court in Iran issuing the death penalty to protestors

17th November 2022
Iran: Chilling use of the death penalty to further brutally quell popular uprising

14th November 2022
Ukraine: Preserving evidence of war crimes as Ukraine retakes its territory key for victims of war crimes

Construction Continues at 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Stadiums

11th November 2022
Qatar – Six things you need to know about the hosts of the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Collage of Baluchi victims killed protesting in Iran

11th November 2022
Iran: urgent international action needed to stop mass killings of Baluchi protestors

11th November 2022
Saudi Arabia: Execution of two Pakistani nationals is callous attack on right to life

10th November 2022
Northern Ireland: Irish government urged to bring UK government to European Court if Troubles Bill becomes law

10th November 2022
Egypt: World leaders at COP27 must call for release of Alaa Abdel Fattah – activist at risk of death

A bus taking people from Mariupol, Ukraine, arrives in the village of Bezimenne in Donetsk, 7 May, 2022.

10th November 2022
Ukraine: Russia’s unlawful transfer of civilians a war crime and likely a crime against humanity – new report

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