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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged Hamas authorities to allow captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to communicate with his family and receive visits from the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the government of Iraqi Kurdistan to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM) in a report published Wednesday. The report, "They Took Me and Told Me Nothing," calls...

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem on Monday released its annual report , noting an advancement in the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories but calling for greater improvement. The report, examining...

The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Monday that the government has changed its position concerning a previous decision not to invite Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to an African Union (AU) [official...

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court Saturday upheld a ruling requiring the country's Ministry of Interior to revoke the citizenship of Egyptian men married to Jewish Israeli women. The court distinguished Israeli women of Jewish origin from those of...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday condemned the recent execution of 18 people in Libya . The executed were charged with pre-meditated murder and several were foreign nationals from Chad, Egypt, and Nigeria. AI...

JURIST Guest Columnists Michael Kearney, a lecturer in international law at the University of York (UK), and Victor Kattan, Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, argue for the recognition of Palestine as a...

The Egyptian Parliament on Tuesday voted to extend the country's state of emergency for two years. Despite the two-year extension, parliament voted to limit the application of the emergency laws only...

Five international Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members will be tried in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of money laundering, Attorney General Abdul Magid Mahmoud announced Wednesday. The members, including Muslim Brotherhood...

Two political parties in eastern Sudan on Tuesday accused the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) of using voter fraud and intimidation in gaining electoral victories in their region of the country during last week's national elections. Representatives...