Human rights violations

Child among protesters sexually assaulted in Iran, rights group says

HRW and Amnesty warn that Tehran uses rape, sexual violence, and torture to suppress dissent, continuing a pattern of violence following previous protests.

Illustrative People step on an Iranian flag at a march in support of nationwide protests in Iran, Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 18, 2026.
PEOPLE ATTEND a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022.

Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says

Members of the Baha'i faith hold flowers as they demonstrate outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in the country's capital Sanaa April 3, 2016

Iranian regime weaponizes judicial systems against Baha'i minority, Human Rights Watch claims

Members of Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard stand in formation as they carry out an increased security patrol along Lake Maracaibo amid rising tensions between Venezuela and US, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, October 26, 2025.

Venezuela's GNB guilty of crimes against humanity, including rape and torture, UN finds


Speaking truth to power

James Loeffler traces the Jewish roots of the world’s human rights organizations

Amnesty international billboard

U.N. Human Rights - as wrong as ever

The Jerusalem Post

Syrian Observatory says war has killed more than half a million

About 85 percent of the dead were civilians killed by the forces of the Syrian government and its allies.

A man holds a child after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria February 7, 2018.

London Center enlightens public on human rights violations

By viewing human rights violations and national security through the same lens, the London Center is able to conceive of innovative solutions.

Max Saatchi stands with other protesters while wearing a mask depicting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a "No to Rouhani, Yes to Human Rights in Iran Rally" organized by the National Council of Resistance to Iran, outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York, September 28,

Putin orders 'humanitarian corridor' in Syria's eastern Ghouta

More than 500 people have been killed in the strikes by pro-Assad forces in the past week.

Wounded children in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

EXPOSED! 382 Political Plotters and their "Back Door Power Grab" for the $18 Trillion EU

The Jerusalem Post

Syria's Ghouta residents 'wait to die' as bombs fall

The area is being hammered by one of the heaviest bombardments in seven years of war that has killed at least 250 people in 48 hours.

A civil defense member reacts at a damaged site after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

Exhibition mocking Iranian human rights abuses to kick off in Brussels

The exhibition was created as a forceful response to the controversial International Holocaust Cartoon Competition which takes place annually in Iran.

A cartoon from the upcoming Israeli Cartoon Project exhibition in Brussels, mocking Iran's human rights record

Germany permits Iranian regime mass murderer to flee the country

Iranian dissidents protest at Hamburg airport.

Mahmoud Shahroudi in 2007

Judge rules ACLU to visit ISIS fighter detained in Iraq

The man surrendered in mid-September to US-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters pursuing an offensive against Islamic State’s former stronghold of Raqqa.

An Islamic State fighter carries the group’s flag in Raqqa, north-central Syria.