Daily Archives: December 31, 2024

2024-12-31: News Headlines

newarab (2024-12-31). In Iran, late Jimmy Carter remembered as 'architect of sanctions'. newarab.com Iran played a central role in The former US president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who passed away on Monday at the age of 100, left behind a legacy of punitive measures whose impact on Iran has endured since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. | "Carter had a bad character," said Hassan Taherifar who works at a Tehran bazaar outside the former US e…

Hugo GABBERO (2024-12-31). SOS-defenders platform: Expose arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide. fidh.org A collective of local, regional and international human rights organisations unveils SOS-Defenders, an action platform that exposes the alarming scale of arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide.
Geneva, 13 December 2024. This information hub, which will progressively expand to cover more countries, has already documented 274 cases of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders across 17 countries (Bahrain, Belarus, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Iran, Jordan, (…) | – |