China’s ongoing mistreatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority continues to escape the headlines, including in Muslim-majority nations. Although the forced assimilation campaign targets the Uyghurs’ culture and religion amongst other human rights violations, they have received no support from other Muslim populations; common critics of Islamophobia and abuses against Muslim …
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34 Civil Society Organizations Urge Unga Member States to Support Resolution on Human Rights in Iran
Thirty-four Iranian and international NGOs, including the Association for the Human Rights of the Azerbaijani people in Iran (AHRAZ), have sent a joint letter to UN General Assembly member states urging them to support Resolution A/C.3/72/L.41, on human rights in Iran, which will be voted on next week before the …
Read More »US-backed YPG terrorists recruiting displaced children from Syria camps, report says
Ankara,Turkey,Aug 16 The PKK terror group’s Syrian affiliate the People’s Protection Units (YPG) is recruiting children from displacement camps in the country’s northeast in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said Friday. According to Daily Sabah news agency, Thousands of people live in camps scattered across parts of Syria …
Read More »Iranian Regime executed three child offenders in January 2018
Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 12 According Human Rights Watch (HRW), 18-year-old Amirhossein Pourjafa was hanged on 4 January in the northern town of Karaj for the alleged rape and murder of a three-year-old girl when he was 16. On 30 January, 20-year-old Mahboubeh Mofidi of Nowshahr – married off at 13 was executed …
Read More »The 12th Anniversary of the Bloody Uprising of the South Azerbaijani People against Fascism on May 2006
Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 22 Today is the twelfth anniversary of the bloody uprising of South Azerbaijani people against Fars Chauvinism on 22nd of May 2006. Following years of mistreatment and discrimination at the hands of the Iranian government, on May 12, 2006, an Iranian newspaper with the name of “IRAN …
Read More »Why Trump’s Jerusalem move is triggering a chain reaction
Why Trump’s Jerusalem move is triggering a chain reaction-By :Monica Showalter There’s nothing like a little U.S. leadership. President Trump’s announcement that he is moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is seeing a heartening chain reaction as other nations follow our lead. Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he’s hearing from all …
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