Cavusoglu takes swipe at Swedish counterpart
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday took a swipe at his Swedish counterpart Anna Linde during a joint press conference in Ankara, castigating her...
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People with disabilities demonstrate outside palace
A delegation of people with disabilities gathered outside the presidential palace on Tuesday morning expecting to see the president and submit a written statement with...
Time does not dilute Turkey’s human right violations in Cyprus says UN ambassador
Turkey’s human rights violations in Cyprus cannot be normalised just because they have been in place for a long time, permanent representative at the UN...
Battling unlawful profiling
A workshop on how to identify and battle unlawful profiling was hosted at the office of the Commissioner for Administration and Protection of Human Rights...
Politicians won’t solve the Cyprus problem, but individuals can
By Alper Ali Riza Political leaders in Cyprus cannot agree the time of day let alone how to share a small island surrounded by a...
The misinformation of cowardly online commentators
Half-truths, cherry-picking and mud-throwing By Christos P Panayiotides I recently found myself at the receiving end of a mud-smearing campaign from a handful of anonymous...
Minorities in Cyprus remain a target says US human rights report
The latest report of the US State Department on Human Rights Practices in Cyprus found that members of ethnic and racial minorities were more likely...
Justice minister highlights improvements in human rights
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou on Monday praised the progress Cyprus has made in terms of human rights in recent years by pointing to what he...
France’s ban on full-body Islamic veil ‘violates human rights’
The UN Human Rights Committee said on Tuesday that France‘s ban on the niqab, the full-body Islamic veil, was a violation of human rights and called...
Murder in the consulate at Istanbul
If there ever was a case of abuse of diplomatic privilege, the Khashoggi disappearance is as bad as it gets By Alper Ali Riza Until...
Saudi state airline Saudia suspends flights to and from Toronto
Saudi state airline Saudia said in a post on its official Twitter account that it was suspending flights to and from Toronto, the latest in...
UN rights experts tell Bahrain to release jailed activists
United Nations human rights experts called on Bahrain on Thursday to release detained activists, end restrictions on freedom of expression, and end discrimination against women. Bahrain, where...
U.S. quits U.N. human rights body, citing bias vs Israel
The United States withdrew from a “hypocritical and self-serving” United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday over what it called chronic bias against Israel and...
Sri Lankans’ deportation did not violate human rights says ECHR
Cyprus did not violate any human rights conventions by deporting three Sri Lankan nationals in 2011, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on...
Justice ministry says report on prevention of torture ‘positive’
The justice ministry said it was satisfied with the report of the European Commission on the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...
‘As Turkey’s emergency rule continues, so will rights abuses’
Human rights violations and a clampdown on freedom of expression are likely to continue in Turkey as long as it remains under a state of emergency, Amnesty...
House discusses updating language on disabilities
The law on ‘mentally retarded’ persons prepared 30 years ago should be renamed with the term ‘mental disabilities’, parliament’s human rights committee heard on Monday....
India’s top court in landmark ruling on privacy
India’s top court unanimously ruled on Thursday that individual privacy is a fundamental right, a verdict that will impact everything from the way companies handle...
History speaks to those who listen
By Alper Ali Riza The broad historical sweep in which Europe eventually took centre-stage began with the end of World War II and ended with...
Trump breaking torture taboo, laws threatened – UN rights boss
The United Nations’ top rights official has accused US President Donald Trump of breaking taboos by suggesting bringing back torture, and warned world powers against...
