Anti-democratic legislation's been passed. More's coming. Individual liberties are threatened, including those of minorities. Affected groups include those named above and anyone criticizing government policies, including Jews.
Annually, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) publishes its "State of Human Rights - Situation." For 2011, it documents "grave violations of rights in Israel's prisons and describes a rising trend of restrictions of liberty" overall, including:
- freedom of expression;
- freedom of political activity; and
- freedom of thought and opinion.
Child and adult refugees held on Nauru under Australia’s offshore detention regime are continuing to report...
On one level, an incendiary video posted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend...
President Barack Obama's administration plans to increase the number of worldwide refugees accepted into the United...
The world's chemical weapons watchdog will investigate the suspected use of chlorine gas in an opposition...
