How Egyptian police hunt LGBT people on dating apps
In Egypt, homosexuality is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegations that police are hunting LGBT people online. Now BBC...
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
Why the World Feels Different in 2023
From climate negotiations to sports to diplomacy, the global south is becoming more powerful. The most meaningful trend in global...
2022: A year in the Middle East
2022 was a year full of unprecedented protests, groundbreaking state visits, important elections, and new challenges for the Middle East...
Egyptian women fear systemic normalization of gender-based violence and femicide
A woman carries a placard that reads in Arabic "A man cares about his mother, sister, daughter and wife" during a rally to eradicate...
"You're on your own": African students stuck in Ukraine seek refuge or escape route
When Percy Ohene-Yeboah peered down from his high-rise apartment in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning, the...
US: Slow Progress on Human Rights
High-Level Pronouncements Marred by Systemic Racism, Abuse of Asylum Seekers (Washington, DC) – The administration of President Joe Biden...
Human Rights Watch criticises Biden, others for weak defense of democracy
First: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the December 2021 jobs report during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White...
Egypt independent human rights organization closes due to government pressure
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), one of Egypt’s last independent human rights organizations, closed Monday. ANHRI...
20 Years of US Torture – and Counting
Global Costs of Unlawful Detention and Interrogation Post-9/11 (New York) – Twenty years after Guantánamo Bay detention operations...
Egypt frees activist Ramy Shaath after he abandons nationality
Shaath’s detention came amid a continuing crackdown on political dissent under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Egyptian...
