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The Times of Israel

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Topic: human rights

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January 25, 2013
3:52 am

Israeli Border Police officers check documents of Palestinian women at the Qalandia checkpoint on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah (illustrative photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Britain cites ‘concern’ for Israeli human rights record

Foreign Office’s quarterly report also criticizes Palestinians; section on Iran half as long as section on Israel

December 16, 2012
3:27 pm

A family of African migrants in the Shapira neighborhood of Tel Aviv (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel guilty of ‘bleak’ and ‘severe’ human rights abuses, local NGO asserts

Civil rights group’s report decries situation in the West Bank, among the Bedouin, and relating to African migrants in Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

December 4, 2012
10:03 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (photo credit: CC-BY Antônio Cruz, Wikimedia Commons)

UN human rights chief urges Iran to improve conditions of jailed activist

Navi Pillay expresses concern for life of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since mid-October

November 17, 2012
12:33 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin implied to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that a jailed member of the punk band Pussy Riot was anti-Semitic. (Photo credit: Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service/RIA-Novosti/AP)

Putin invokes anti-Semitism while defending imprisonment of subversive rock band

In meeting with German chancellor, Russian president defends move, falsely claiming musician had been involved in anti-Jewish display

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

November 16, 2012
1:11 pm

Relations were expected to improve between US President Barack Obama (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in 2009, after the revocation of the Jackson-Vanik amendment. (photo credit: AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

US Congress set to replace historic law that helped free Soviet Jewry

With the support of Jewish groups, American legislators are expected to end Jackson-Vanik restrictions on Russia

By Ron Kampeas

November 15, 2012
10:04 pm

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, plans to address the UN on the ongoing crisis in Syria. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar flash90)

Foreign Ministry slams UN human rights chief for ‘ringing silence’ on Gaza rocket fire

High Commissioner does not care for Israelis’ human rights, spokesman charges

By Raphael Ahren

November 15, 2012
4:43 pm

NGO hypocrisy in Gaza

On ignoring human rights when the humans are Israelis

By Gerald M. Steinberg

November 15, 2012
3:19 pm

Turn off the lights in Gaza

Making the case for zero tolerance for terror

By Elihu D. Richter

November 13, 2012
8:50 pm

Egyptian army soldiers arrest a woman protester during clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 16, 2011 (photo credit: AP Photo/File)

Egyptian rights groups excluded from EU meeting

Statement claims Foreign Ministry withdrew a previous invite, likens Morsi government to Mubarak regime

November 8, 2012
4:10 pm

In this Nov. 5, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama makes a call to thank a volunteer as he visits a call center in a campaign office in the German Village section of Columbus, Ohio (photo credit: AP)

Obama wins, Bahraini oppositionists lose (their citizenship)

Arab columnists are cautiously optimistic about Obama’s second term

By Elhanan Miller

November 5, 2012
1:17 pm

Speaking power to truth in Gaza and the West Bank

On the gagging of progressive Palestinian voices

By Philippe Assouline and Daniel Campos Putterman

October 27, 2012
2:18 pm

UAE upbraids European Parliament over human rights resolution

From the web Reuters: Document attacks oil-rich Gulf state’s treatment of dissidents, women and migrant workers

October 25, 2012
3:28 am

In this Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 photo, a group of Iranian workers protest in front the Industrial Ministry building in Tehran, Iran, demanding their delayed salaries. For weeks, a manifesto complaining about Iran's sinking economy circulated in secret among factories and workshops. In the end, some 10,000 signatures were on a petition addressed to Iran's labor minister calling attention to the street-level fallout from Western sanctions: rising prices, fewer jobs. (AP Photo)

UN human rights expert says Iran quashing freedoms

Ahmed Shaheed pleads for access to Islamic Republic

October 18, 2012
1:11 am

12-year-old Egyptian girl punished for not wearing a veil, father says

Teacher cut off girl’s hair, sent her away for being ‘shameful’

By Haggag Salama

October 12, 2012
1:40 am

UN report raps Iran for ‘systemic’ rights violations

Islamic Republic continues to stone people to death, detains more journalists than any other nation

By Peter James Spielmann

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