Judge Blocks Arkansas From Enforcing 4 Abortion Restrictions
Source: Time BY Andrew DeMillo / AP Jul 29, 2017 (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on […]
Buddhists protest UN human rights envoy in western Myanmar
Source: Associated Press By ESTHER HSUTAN SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist demonstrators on Wednesday protested the arrival of the U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar for an information-gathering trip in […]
UK: We came from Romania to build a life, and were locked up for sleeping rough
We were in Yarl’s Wood for 26 days with no idea when we were getting out. I felt like killing myself Teofil Muntean and Marineta Olariu We come from Romania. We left for the reasons most people do. It’s a corrupt country. If you have money you can do what […]
We lost our court case against the Government to stop it selling arms to Saudi Arabia – but that doesn’t mean we were wrong
If the ruling is not overturned then it will be regarded by Whitehall and Westminster as giving a green light to continue arming and supporting brutal dictatorships and human rights […]
ALGERIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION CONDEMNS TARGETING OF AHMADI MUSLIMS
12TH JUNE 2017 / / The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) has condemned the Government’s crackdown on the Ahmadiyya Muslim minority. Referring to the arrests of the Algerian Ahmadis, the LADDH called it an unacceptable infringement of the freedoms of worship, The organization also called for the […]
Stop Calling Indonesia a Role Model. It’s Stopped Being One.
“It’s over for Indonesia’s tradition of moderation… In ten years, Indonesia could be Pakistan.” By Benedict Rogers May 29, 2017 The 15-year-old school girl’s eyes filled with tears as she put down her mobile phone. Her best friend at school, the friend she did […]
As Trump visits, Gulf states seen quietly curbing opposition
Reuters International MAY 19, 2017 – A Saudi Arabia’s and United States’ flags are seen on Meccah Road as security check point are set up ahead of the visit of […]
Attackers Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Hate Crime Against Sikh Man
Source: Huffington Post “I hope that you will learn about me and my community and one day consider me your brother too,” the victim told his assailants in court. By […]
Texas House OKs letting adoption groups deny non-Christians
Source: Associated Press By MEREDITH HOFFMAN AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many state-funded Texas adoption and foster care agencies routinely deny non-Christian, gay, and unmarried applicants on religious grounds — and […]
Netanyahu is breaking the truth
There is an obsessiveness in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s and his political associates’ relentless campaign against human rights organizations in Israel. In their preoccupation with these organizations they are ready to compromise the country’s democratic values and its standing in the world. This week his campaign against the human […]
The Arab Prince Standing Up to Trump
Prince Zeid Raad al-Hussein has emerged as the Middle East’s most prominent defender of human rights — both in the region of his birth, and the United States. BY KIM […]
Officer Who Forcibly Removed Passenger From United Airlines Flight Placed on Leave
Source: Time BY Jennifer Calfas Apr 10, 2017 One of the officers involved in forcibly removing and dragging a passenger from an overbooked United Airlines flight was placed on leave Monday. […]
Do you know Universal Declaration of Human Rights has 30 Articles?
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments You may just need to read this short less than 1880 words description of human rights, carefully, word by word, to know almost every […]
Malaysia MP: ‘Ok for rape victims to marry their rapists’
Source: BBC A Malaysian MP has drawn outrage for saying it can be OK for rapists to marry their victims and that some 12-year-old girls were “physically and spiritually” ready […]
Mass graves in Ireland: A long history of Church abuse
Source: Aljazeera When infant remains were found in a former home for unwed mothers last month, it didn’t come as a surprise to everyone. The Catholic Church has faced a […]
More blatant disregard for rights
Mar 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The US delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council boycotted this body’s deliberations in Geneva on Monday because on its agenda were discussions about Israel and Palestine. The US boycott was decided before the council opened up the deliberations on the Israeli practices, […]
India’s sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as humans
Source: Reuters By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Indian court has declared the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers living entities, giving them the same legal rights as […]
The Ahmadis of Algeria: the government’s most convenient security threat?
Despite numbering in the few thousands, the followers of this branch of Islam have been branded a major security threat by the Algerian state. Now, they are facing both a crackdown and a propaganda war. By Jacob Lindelöw Berntson In the last six months, at least 70 individuals belonging to […]
From the Algerian Press: Security Services Arrest 25 youth, Elders Of Ahmadiyya Followers
2Religious affairs minister: Algeria is protected from extremism 2017/01/15 Mourad.B/English version: Dalila Henac Research and investigation team dismantled, in coordination with other units of the National Gendarmerie, in Biskra (southern Algeria), on Sunday, a network that is affiliated with the Ahmadiyya community, which is made up of 25 people who […]
Rapporteur ‘disappointed’ UN rights panel divided on Myanmar
Source: Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert on Myanmar says she’s “disappointed” at the lack of “appetite” at the Human Rights Council to back her call for the […]
