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The Times of Israel

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Topic: human rights

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September 21, 2012
6:07 pm

Irwin Cotler speaking to a Knesset Committee in March. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Clinton, UN chief urged to cancel Ahmadinejad talk

Iranian president’s ‘incendiary incitement’ should land him ‘in the docket of the accused rather than at the UN podium,’ says former Canadian justice minister Cotler

September 12, 2012
9:00 pm

Israeli soldiers stand guard on Tuesday as Eritrean asylum seekers sit on the ground behind a border fence, after they attempted to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

New testimony shows Eritreans pleaded with Israel to not be forced back into Egypt

Maariv reports that accounts of migrants stuck at the border, given by 3 Eritreans let into Israel, contradict claims government made last week

By Michal Shmulovich

September 6, 2012
6:50 pm

Israel allows in two women, one youth stuck on Sinai border

After eight days camped out on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to come in

By Yifa Yaakov and Times of Israel staff

September 6, 2012
11:23 am

Doctors barred from accessing Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ petitions High Court to allow asylum seekers to enter; second hearing set for Sunday

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

September 6, 2012
7:15 am

High Court to hear petition on behalf of Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ seeks order granting asylum seekers entry into country

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

September 5, 2012
3:06 pm

Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt in 2010. (photo credit: AP/Assaf Golan)

Eritreans stuck at Egyptian border won’t be allowed in, interior minister says

20 migrants, caught between two sets of barriers, left in sun for six days

By Michal Shmulovich

August 29, 2012
10:49 pm

Ban Ki-moon, left, speaking to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad through a translator on Tuesday. (photo credit: (AP/Presidency Office, Mohsen Rafinejad)

Netanyahu brands Tehran summit ‘a stain on humanity’

UN chief Ban, in Iran for Non-Aligned Movement meeting, calls on hosts to halt ‘offensive’ threats against Israel

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

July 4, 2012
6:42 am

Professor Françoise Hampson in Jerusalem (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Israel’s break with Human Rights Council understandable but misguided, says expert

Françoise Hampson, a UK-based veteran of fact-finding missions, came to Israel with NGO Monitor, yet she has some good things to say about Amnesty and B’Tselem

By Raphael Ahren

June 25, 2012
2:29 pm

A smokescreen of incompetence at HRW

Human Rights Watch’s call Israel and the US out over the use of white phosphorous, while ignoring the context of terrorism and asymmetric warfare

By Gerald M. Steinberg

June 14, 2012
10:31 am

Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border (illustrative photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

On anniversary of Hamas’s Gaza takeover, 50 NGOs demand an end to Israel’s blockade

Jerusalem insists the closure is legal and vital for security

By Raphael Ahren

April 4, 2012
4:34 pm

Four questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

As an Israeli who has dedicated his life to the promotion of a better future for Israelis and Palestinians, I’ve learned that questions are among humanity’s most important tools

By Uri Zaki

March 25, 2012
5:40 pm

Iran: Shadowboxing vs. a rationally genocidal regime

Some comments on the bizarre ideas zipping through cyberspace in the last week or so, on the choices facing our leaders

By Elihu D. Richter and Yael Stein

March 20, 2012
6:37 pm

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (photo credit: Yasin Bulbul/AP)

US commission lambastes Turkey as major violator of religious freedom

Bipartisan panel wants State Department to include Ankara on annual watch list

By Ari Ben Goldberg

March 20, 2012
12:30 pm

A Syrian rebel fires at a Syrian army checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus (photo credit: AP)

Syrian opposition groups accused of human rights abuse

Human Rights Watch: ‘Opposition leaders should make it clear to their followers that they must not torture, kidnap, or execute under any circumstances’

March 18, 2012
5:14 pm

Omar Sharif Jr (photo credit: Omar Sharif Jr, Facebook page)

Omar Sharif Jr: I’m gay and Jewish

Grandson of screen icon comes out, in more ways than one

By Gabe Fisher

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