The United States is asking Israel to refrain from certain violations of international law in Palestine during President Joe Biden's visit to the apartheid state next month, according to a report published Wednesday.Axios reports U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for...
New Demands for Yemen War Powers Resolution as Report Reveals Depth of US Complicity in Airstrike
A leading peace group on Monday said a new report detailing the depth of US support for Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen – hundreds of which have been called war crimes by international legal experts – shows the need for Congress to pass a recently introduced...
US Groups Demand Full Probe After Israeli Forces Kill Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Human rights advocates on Wednesday called for a thorough and transparent investigation after Al Jazeera and witnesses said Israeli forces shot and killed one of the network's reporters while she was at work.Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known 51-year-old...
Study Reveals Sweeping Extent of ICE’s Secret Surveillance Dragnet
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is operating a digital surveillance dragnet through which the agency is able to access information about nearly every person in the United States, a two-year investigation by researchers from the Center on Privacy &...
Rights Group Says Ukraine Torture or Killing of Russian POWs Would Be Clear ‘War Crime’
A leading international human rights group said Thursday that if genuine, unverified videos showing Ukrainian troops shooting Russian prisoners of war would depict war crimes, while calling on Ukraine to "ensure an effective investigation" into the alleged abuse.Human...
‘A Failure’: Critics Rebuke Biden for Nuclear Posture Review Update
Nonproliferation advocates on Wednesday expressed disappointment after the Biden administration released a summary of its latest Nuclear Posture Review, which fails to depart from decades of dangerous U.S. first use policy."This Nuclear Posture Review is a failure. It...
Right Groups Condemn Saudi Mass Executions as ‘Brutal’ Display of ‘Autocratic Rule’
Prominent international human rights groups and defenders on Tuesday condemned Saudi Arabia's recent execution of 81 people in a single day and called on the fundamentalist monarchy to enact a moratorium on capital punishment and commute the death sentences of all...
‘Racist’ New Israeli Law Bars Naturalization of Palestinian Spouses
A new law passed Thursday that effectively bans the naturalization of Palestinian spouses of Israeli Jews was condemned by human rights advocates in Israel and around the world, some of whom called it the latest manifestation of an apartheid regime.Reut Shaer, a...
House Dems Vow To Introduce War Powers Resolution for Yemen
A pair of progressive US lawmakers on Monday said that if President Joe Biden does not stop supporting the Saudi-led war against Yemen, they will work to pass a new war powers resolution to "end unconstitutional US participation" in the conflict. "We will not sit by...
New Amnesty Report Outlines ‘True Extent of Israeli Apartheid Regime’
Palestine advocates on Tuesday welcomed a new report in which Amnesty International became the latest on a growing list of human rights organizations to explicitly call Israeli policies and actions against Palestinians "apartheid."The report – entitled Israel's...
