Covid-19 Hampers Workplace Safety in Georgia’s Mines
Click to expand Image Miners enter the Mindeli coal mine in Tkibuli, Georgia, July 13, 2018. © 2018 REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili Two people died in a mining accident in the country of Georgia’s...
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities in Mexico Underrepresented in Politics
Click to expand Image 2021 Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellow Bryan Russell campaigning at San Martin Plaza in Lima, Peru, December 13, 2019. Russell, who ran twice for Congress in Peru, is now an...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Opposition Leader Beaten in Custody
Click to expand Image Tofiq Yagublu (file photo). © Azadliq Radiosu/RFERL (Berlin) – Azerbaijan police violently dispersed a peaceful protest in central Baku on December 1, 2021, and detained dozens...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Dewa Mavhinga
Click to expand Image Dewa Mavhinga © 2021 Human Rights Watch (Johannesburg) – Human Rights Watch is heartbroken to report the sudden death of Dewa Mavhinga, Southern Africa director at Human Rights...
View ArticleFIFA: Ensure Fair Trial of World Cup Whistleblower
Click to expand Image Abdullah Ibhais at a resturant. © 2021 Abdullah Ibhais (Beirut) – FIFA should publicly call on the Qatari authorities to ensure a fair trial for the detained former employee of...
View ArticleMyanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced to 4 Years
Click to expand Image Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw, September 19, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s junta should immediately quash the verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi, who on December 6,...
View ArticleInternational Criminal Court Annual Meeting
Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International...
View ArticlePakistan Sentences Rights Defender to 14 Years in Prison
A military court in Pakistan has reportedly sentenced human rights defender and political activist Idris Khattak to 14 years’ “rigorous imprisonment” on charges of espionage after anonymous sources...
View ArticleCountries Should Bolster Law on Incendiary Weapons
Click to expand Image An incendiary weapon falls in Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on March 23, 2018. © 2018 HAMZA AL-AJWEH/AFP via Getty Images As a major United Nations...
View ArticleAustralia: Press Vietnam to Respect Rights
Click to expand Image Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son shake hands before their meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, November 9, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Hau...
View ArticleMozambique: Hundreds of Women, Girls Abducted
Click to expand Image A woman walks through the Internally Displaced Person camp “25 de junho,” in Metuge, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique on May 20, 2021. © 2021 JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleUzbekistan Should Keep Its Human Rights Promises
Click to expand Image President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivers a speech at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 22, 2021. © Government of...
View ArticleChile Overwhelmingly Passes Marriage Equality
Click to expand Image A family takes part in the annual Pride parade in Santiago, Chile, November 13, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Esteban Felix It’s a special day for same-sex couples in Chile. Today their...
View ArticleDraconian UK Law Puts Vulnerable Asylum Seekers at Risk
Click to expand Image A group of people on the deck of HMC Seeker as they wait to be brought ashore by the UK Border Force in Kent. September 22, 2020. © 2020 Gareth Fuller/PA Wire via AP Images...
View ArticleDecades of Impunity Paved Way for Myanmar’s Coup
On December 10, 2019, Abubacarr Tambadou, then Gambia’s justice minister, posed a question to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. “Why is the world standing by and allowing such...
View ArticleSyria/Russia: 12 Civilians Dead in Idlib Artillery Attacks
(Beirut) – The Syrian-Russian military alliance fired at least 14 large-caliber artillery shells into the town of Ariha in Idlib governorate on October 20, 2021, killing 12 civilians and injuring 24,...
View ArticleLebanon: Release Detained Journalist
Click to expand Image Nada Homsi © Private (Beirut) – Lebanon’s General Security should immediately release Nada Homsi, a journalist from the US, who was arrested on November 16, 2021, and whose...
View ArticleCuba: Prominent Figures Urge End to Repression of Artists
Click to expand Image Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, an artist who has vocally criticized repression in Cuba, speaks during an interview at his home in Havana, Cuba, on May 2, 2018. Alcántara has...
View ArticleAustralia: Press Laos to Respect Rights
Click to expand Image Shui-Meng Ng holds a picture of her husband, Sombath Somphone, the forcibly disappeared Lao activist, following a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, December 12, 2018. © 2018...
View ArticleIndia: Army Kills 14 Civilians in Nagaland
Click to expand Image Placards calling for revocation of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act at the Hornbill festival in Nagaland, following the killing of civilians by Indian soldiers in the state,...
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