Afghanistan: Taliban Deprive Women of Livelihoods, Identity
Click to expand Image Burqa-clad women walk on a street in Ghazni City, in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, November 15, 2021. © 2021 HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Taliban rule has had...
View ArticleGreece: New Biometrics Policing Program Undermines Rights
Click to expand Image Police detain individuals assumed to be migrants in central Athens, on Sunday, August 5, 2012. Between August 4, 2012, and February 22, 2013, Greek police detained almost 85,000...
View ArticleIndia Should Stop Using Abusive Foreign Funding Law
Click to expand Image The People’s Watch’s building in Madurai, India. (Geneva) – The Indian government should immediately stop harassing the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns and its program...
View ArticleTaliban Use Harsh Tactics to Crush Afghan Women’s Rights Protest
Click to expand Image Women protesters demand justice and call for the Taliban to respect women’s rights in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 16, 2022. Photo provided by one of the protest organizers. The...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions for Sport: Protect Children
Click to expand Image Residents of the Centre Technique National in Croix-des-Bouquets play in a match on May 12, 2020. Earlier this year, survivors and family members accused Haitian Football...
View ArticleRetaliating against Rights Groups Means Retaliating against People in Need
Click to expand Image The team and supporters of the Belarusian human rights organization "Human Constanta." © 2022 Human Constanta Last year, Belarusian authorities redoubled their crackdown on civil...
View ArticleSyria: German Trial for Wartime Atrocities Opens
Click to expand Image The building entrance of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court. © 2022 Julian Zündorf (Berlin) – Judges in Frankfurt, Germany will begin hearing evidence on January 19, 2022 in a...
View ArticleInvestigating a Massacre, Iraq Should Address Root Causes
Click to expand Image People walk outside Iraqi Criminal Court in Baghdad's Karkh district, Iraq, May 5, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File On December 31, Iraqi security forces killed 20...
View ArticleNew Language Requirement Raises Concerns in Ukraine
Click to expand Image A man reads a newspaper at a metro station, in Kiev, Ukraine, February 12, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov A new legal provision on the use of the Ukrainian language, part...
View ArticleUS: Cervical Cancer Disproportionally Kills Black Women
(Atlanta) – The United States federal and many state and local governments are not doing enough to end cervical cancer deaths, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social...
View ArticleMyanmar: TotalEnergies Endorses Targeted Sanctions
Click to expand Image Soldiers move in to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 7, 2021. © AP Photo, File (Paris) – The French company TotalEnergies has signaled...
View ArticleUN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
Click to expand Image Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand on guard at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © 2021 Piyas Biswas / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (New...
View ArticlePakistan’s New Law Aims to Protect Women in Workplace
Click to expand Image Women's rights activists demonstrate to condemn violence against women in Lahore, Pakistan, July 24, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry Pakistan’s parliament has passed a bill...
View ArticleCongo’s Prison Rape Trial a Missed Opportunity
This week a court in Lubumbashi in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo found 10 male inmates guilty of rape, arson, and attempted escape during riots at Kasapa central prison in September 2020....
View ArticleDutch University Hit by Chinese Government Funding Scandal
Click to expand Image Main building of the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Campus at Amstelveenseweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. © 2016 Ger Bosma/Alamy Stock Photo The Vrije Universiteit (Free...
View ArticleNew Study Underscores Dangerous Levels of Chemical Pollution
Click to expand Image A 200-meter pile of plastic waste originating from household waste fills the river at Kali Busa, near Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2, 2021. © 2021 Kuncoro Widyo Rumpoko/Medialys...
View ArticleChechen Police Abduct a Woman in Retaliation Against Her Sons
Click to expand Image Zarema Mussaeva. © 2021 Private As all eyes are focused on growing tensions between the Kremlin and NATO, Chechen authorities seem emboldened to be unrestrained in their use of...
View ArticlePrioritize Rights, Justice in Southern Thailand Peace Efforts
Click to expand Image A soldier checks vehicles at a checkpoint in downtown Narathiwat, Thailand, June 29, 2015. © 2015 Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images The Thai government returned to the...
View ArticleUN Reviews Venezuela’s Poor Human Rights Record
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleBurundi: Account for Dead in Gitega Prison Fire
Click to expand Image A fire broke out in a severely overcrowded prison in Gitega, Burundi’s political capital, early on December 7, 2021. © 2021 Private (Nairobi) – Burundian authorities should...
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