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 […]
Indonesia’s Sentencing of ‘Son of God’ Adds to Alarm Over Crackdown
Source: The New York Times By JON EMONTMARCH 9, 2017 Photo Ahmad Mushaddeq, a self-proclaimed messiah, in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2008. He was imprisoned for blasphemy for the first time […]
‘Shariah Law’ a Disaster for the Muslim Majority Countries
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Kacem El Ghazzali, writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council, wrote in an article […]
President Obama Put an All-Gender Bathroom in the White House. Trump Kept It
Source: Time BY Zeke J Miller, Katy Steinmetz 1:19 AM PKT The Trump Administration is maintaining a gender-neutral restroom at the White House, despite recently rolling back a key Obama-era policy designed to protect transgender youth. The White House’s “All-Gender Restroom” was established during the Obama Administration in 2015 in Room […]
U.N. Human Rights Experts Unite to Condemn China Over Expulsions of Tibetans
Source: The New York Times By EDWARD WONG A half-dozen United Nations experts who investigate human rights abuses have taken the rare step of banding together to condemn China for […]
‘Jane Roe’ made abortion legal. Then a minister made her rethink.
Source: The Washington Post By Avi Selk When Flip Benham opened an office of his antiabortion group next door to an abortion clinic that employed Norma McCorvey, the two saw […]
Norma McCorvey, Plaintiff in Landmark Roe v. Wade Abortion Case, Dies at 69
Source: Time Lucinda Shen Feb 18, 2017 Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff at the center of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that expanded abortion rights in the United States, […]
