Where is the outrage?
Aug 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Where is the outrage? Last week, Daesh fighters slipped into the Druze-majority Sweida city and countryside and massacred more than 250 civilians, […]
I have irritated, I think, all gov’ts during my tenure — Prince Zeid
UN human rights commissioner’s tough approach triggers debate as he gets ready to leave office By AFP – Aug 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES HH Prince Zeid will leave office as […]
Hail the prince
Jul 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ali Kassay In six weeks, the term of office of His Highness Prince Zeid Bin Ra’ad as UN high commissioner for human rights will […]
Ahed Tamimi, a symbol of Palestinian struggle, prepares for freedom
By AFP – Jul 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES In this file photo taken on February 13, 2018, Palestinian teenager and campaigner Ahed Tamimi arrives for the beginning of her trial […]
Loyal citizens, persecuted minority: the plight of Pakistani Ahmadis
Commentary / Insight Neither the Ahmadi individuals nor their community has any agenda to conspire against you or Pakistan. Far from it, we have said time and again that have […]
The elephant in the room
Perspectives The hate and propaganda against Ahmadis have become so potent that they have shaped themselves into a new force, parallel to the writ of the state Obaidullah Khan July […]
The UN’s human rights chief has had enough
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has reached the end of his tether— and now he’s speaking out by Tom Fletcher / July 23, 2018 / Leave a comment Facebook Twitter Linkedin […]
UN Human Rights Chief deeply alarmed by reports of serious rights breaches in Cameroon
GENEVA (25 July 2018) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday expressed deep alarm at persistent reports of human rights violations and abuses […]
Israel adopts divisive Jewish nation-state law
By Reuters – Jul 19,2018 – JORDAN TIME OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel passed a “nation-state” law on Thursday declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, […]
Jewish nation state: Israel approves controversial bill
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law characterising the country as principally a Jewish state, fuelling anger among its Arab minority. The “nation state” law says Jews have a […]
Parties play religious cards as Pakistan poll looms
Islamist groups threaten to deepen social divisions and further discriminate against minorities, women A vendor arranges election party symbols, including lions for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of Shahbaz […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadi community could be further imperiled by a new court order
World Meena Menon Jul 15, 2018 The most remarkable thing about the Ahmadis’ “place of worship” is the silence. There is no azan; nothing identifying these spaces as houses of […]
Home arrest for Israeli accused of arson that killed Palestinians
By AFP – Jul 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians look at the damage after a house was set on fire in the West Bank village of Duma on July 31, […]
Penang mufti welcomes court ruling in favour of Ahmadi Muslims
Predeep Nambiar | July 7, 2018 He says the ruling makes sense as members of the sect are not considered Muslims in the first place. Wan Salim Wan Mohd Noor. […]
Briefing On Human Rights and Religious Freedom – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
July 6, 2018 House Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Statement of Eric Goldstein, Deputy Director, Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa Division I wish […]
Inside Geneva : Who’s in charge in today’s wars?
By Imogen Foulkes This content was published on June 25, 2018 It is key for humanitarian organisations to be able to talk to ‘non-state’ armed groups to try to […]
Hungarian STOP Soros laws are openly xenophobic – U.N.’s Zeid
Reuters International This content was published on June 21, 2018 Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein in Geneva, Switzerland June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (reuters_tickers) GENEVA (Reuters) – New Hungarian laws that criminalise […]
Opinion: When US migrant policy debates invoke the Bible
By Henry Sturcke This content was published on June 20, 2018 5 Two young girls watch a World Cup soccer match on a television from a holding area where […]
This is what the Bible’s Romans 13 actually says about asylum and what Jeff Sessions omitted
The Catholic Church has been one of the most vocal opponents of the crackdown on asylum cases Casey Strine The Independent Voices Sessions argued that the current zero-tolerance approach ‘protects the […]
Trump Administration Withdraws U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council
ImageNikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, speaking to the General Assembly last week in New York.CreditDon Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Gardiner Harris June […]