Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral
Cathedral dean Rev. Randy Hollerith, who chose the iconic author, human rights campaigner, and Holocaust survivor for the alcove’s final ...
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Watchdog slams human rights group for branding Israel an apartheid state
In its report, the Human Rights Watch denies Israel's legitimacy as a Jewish state, specifically with regard to the 1950 ...
EU set to sanction Iranian individuals for human rights abuses
Decision marks the first time since 2013 that travel bans and asset freezes have been enacted. On March 9, UN ...
UN panel slams Assad for 'heinous violations, human rights abuses'
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield denounces the “brutality” and “untold suffering” caused by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime ...
Why are 3 IDF veterans suing leftist NGO Breaking the Silence?
Group of soldiers who fought in Operation Protective Edge in 2014 accuse left-wing group of defamation over "testimonies" about incidents ...
'Erdogan wants to silence me'
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a lawmaker from Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, has been sentenced to 2.5 years for prison for ...
China jails 'citizen journalist' who reported on COVID from Wuhan
Criticism of China's early handling of the crisis has been censored, and whistle-blowers such as doctors warned not to talk. ...
High Court rejects tougher sentence for soldier who shot 2 Palestinians
Families argued that plea bargain did not reflect severity of the shooting; soldier's attorneys: He was operating alone in very ...
Iraq hangs 21 on charges of terrorism
Iraq has put hundreds of suspected jihadists on trial and carried out several mass executions since defeating Islamic State fighters ...
Jewish director's 'Francesco' depicts Pope Francis as 'great connector'
"The main thread of this movie is more about us as human beings, who are creating disasters every day," says ...