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Tag: human rights

The charges the world did not want to see: Palestinians accuse Hamas of war crimes

For nearly two years, the International Criminal Court’s investigations into the Israel-Hamas war have drawn global attention. When the ICC...

Hamas spied on World Vision employees to disrupt Gaza aid director’s trial

Internal Hamas documents seized by Israeli soldiers and reviewed by experts reveal that the terror group spied on and...

U.S. sanctions UN rights monitor for ‘political warfare’ against Israel

The United States has imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, citing...

From Australia’s Jewish past

Ron Castan AM QC – barrister and human rights advocate Ron was born in Melbourne on 29 October 1939 and...

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

Melanie Phillips: The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the shallow and ignorant, whose knowledge of the Jewish state is entirely drawn from malicious propaganda that misrepresents Israel’s defensive measures as racist aggression.

Facebook names ex-member of Muslim Brotherhood-linked party to new board

“We cannot be removed by Facebook,” they penned in a “New York Times” opinion piece. “Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has also personally committed to this arrangement.”

Overwhelming majority of UN Human Rights Council reps praise Iran on record

“It’s the foxes guarding the chickens,” says U.N. Watch director after delegates to a U.N. review session on Tehran’s human-rights record overwhelmingly applaud the Islamic Republic.

Advocate speakers represent four major human rights issues in Australia

The Sydney Jewish Museum has hosted an engaging and dynamic panel of speakers, who explored four major human rights issues facing Australia today.

Australia joins UN Human Rights Council

Australia has taken up our seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world’s peak body responsible for human rights.

ECAJ makes landmark submission to parliamentary committee on freedom of religion

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has sent a landmark 31 page submission, with 14 recommendations, to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the status of the human right to freedom of religion or belief in Australia and other countries currently being conducted by the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.

Bibles in schools discriminatory?

New Zealand's secular Education Network has asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate bibles in schools, claiming they breach the Human Rights Act.