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Syrian university restriction on female enrollment deepens concerns over women’s rights

Syria’s Higher Education Ministry announced that admission to law, economics and management, and social sciences programs at the National University of Defense Sciences would be restricted to men.

Women walk past a mural with the slogan "no to violence" (against women) drawn on the walls of a school in Syria's northern city of Manbij on December 21, 2024.
Iranian ballistic cluster munitions are fired towards Tel Aviv on March 27, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Hezbollah’s use of cluster munitions against Israel may be war crime, HRW says in rare condemnation

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New Turkish law allows children to be sentenced to life in prison outrages human rights groups

Clergymen lead Christmas celebrations at the St. George's Syriac Orthodox Church in the old city of Damascus.

Christians arbitrarily detained in Syria denied Bible access, forced to observe Ramadan, CSI report


HRW exploits human tragedy to further its political agenda - opinion

HRW’s report is part of a concerted NGO campaign, as documented by NGO Monitor, to use the term “apartheid” in order to lobby the International Criminal Court to open an investigation against Israel.

Omar Shakir, a US citizen representing New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Israel and the Palestinian territories, speaks to Reuters TV in Amman, Jordan.

Human Rights Watch did a one-sided takedown of Israel - opinion

The report comes as Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza erect more barriers to peace with Israel, and as they themselves degrade the human rights of the Palestinian people.

PA PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting in Ramallah last August.

Leading Jewish Republicans split over a Biden human rights nominee

Elliott Abrams, a longtime foreign policy maven with experience in a number of Republican administrations, has come to her defense.

Freedom House President Mark Lagon (R) testifies as Washington Director Human Rights Watch Sarah Margon (L) listens during Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on "Corruption, Global Magnitsky and Modern Slavery - A Review of Human Rights Around the World", on Capitol Hill in Washington, July

Delegitimizing Israel has become a mainstream pastime - opinion

The Human Rights Watch report accusing Israel of apartheid could have a negative impact on the Jewish state's international legacy.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch Americas, holds up a report while addressing the media in Bogota

Human Rights Watch chairman invests in Israel as he calls it ‘apartheid’

Neil Rimer is a board member of Human Rights Watch, which recently accused Israel of apartheid.

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Israeli apartheid charge: Tool against oppression or existential threat?

SETTLEMENT AFFAIRS: "Saying Israel is an apartheid state means it is a crime against humanity, which means it has no right to be, and we have an obligation to make sure it has no right to be."

THE SECURITY BARRIER is seen in the background as a Palestinian protester walks with a placard depicting former South African president Nelson Mandela during a demonstration against settlements near the West Bank village of Bil’in in 2013.

Human Rights Watch really wants to push Israel and PA into one state

This attempt to shoehorn several different areas, run by three different authorities into one place is at the heart of new human rights reports about Israel.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch Americas, holds up a report while addressing the media in Bogota

The HRW apartheid report: Does it matter? - analysis

It doesn't matter in the Western corridors of power, as they will see the report for what it is. But it does matter for influential young people who do not have a good grip on the subject.

OMAR SHAKIR, Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, looks up before a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in September

HRW chief: Israeli apartheid charge followed lack of peace deal

“We all hope that the peace process works, but 30 years into it, with no end in sight, we can’t accept that remote prospect as justifying a contemporary abusive reality,” HRW's chief said.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth

Human Rights Watch: Israel commits crime of apartheid, UN must apply sanctions

Israel met the legal definition for crimes of apartheid as set out by the Rome Statute, Human Rights Watch said in a 213-page report.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during a interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018