Guatemala: Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Rights
Click to expand Image Legislators attend a session of Congress in Guatemala City, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. ©AP Photo/Moises Castillo (New York) – A group of lawmakers in Guatemala has advanced a bill...
View ArticleAfghan Women’s Rights Activists Forcibly Disappeared
Click to expand Image Afghan women activists gathered to protest against Taliban restrictions in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 19, 2021 © 2021 Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The...
View ArticleA Gold Medal for Censorship in China
Click to expand Image © 2021 Badiucao In the video, a skier is preparing for her big race at the Winter Olympics in China. She puts on her boots, her gloves, her helmet, and her googles. Then she...
View ArticleCampaign Targeting Immigration Detention in Canada Builds Momentum
Click to expand Image © Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch Since Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International launched the joint #WelcomeToCanada campaign in October 2021 calling on Canada to stop...
View ArticleEU, Egypt Bid to Lead Global Counterterrorism Body an Affront to Rights
Click to expand Image An Egyptian intelligence security detail member stands guard near a banner showing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. © 2021 Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images The European Union (EU)...
View ArticleMyanmar: Urgent Action Needed to Block Foreign Revenue
Click to expand Image A natural gas and oil pipeline of the Yadana project in Myanmar. © Getty Images (New York) – Myanmar’s military will continue to collect massive revenues from natural gas and...
View ArticleChile’s New President-Elect Sets out a Feminist Government
Click to expand Image Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric, center, poses for photos with his cabinet appointments in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Esteban Felix Last...
View ArticleNamibian Court Rules It Cannot Require Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages
Click to expand Image Anita Elfriede Seiler-Lilles (1st L) and Anette Seiler ( 2nd L, applicants in the case), Phillip Lhl (C) and Guillermo Delgado (4th R) who have a pending case regarding domicile...
View ArticleTunisian Activist Sentenced to Prison over Criticism of Police
Click to expand Image Activist Myriam Bribri participates in a protest organized by the Manich Msamah movement in Tunis, Tunisia, May 13, 2017 © 2017 Lina Ben Mhenni “I’m not sure whether to laugh,...
View ArticleUN Security Council Should Act on Myanmar Atrocities
Click to expand Image Anti-coup protesters run from teargas deployed by the police during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, March 1, 2021. © 2021 Sipa USA via AP Images United Nations Security...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Among Pegasus Spyware Targets
(New York) – The targeting of a Human Rights Watch staff member with Pegasus spyware underscores the urgent need to regulate the global trade in surveillance technology, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleRegression on Abortion Harms Women in Poland
Click to expand Image Women take part in a demonstration against the Polish abortion law, in Wroclaw, Poland, on March 17, 2021. © 2021 Krzysztof Zatycki/NurPhoto via AP (Geneva) – One year after the...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Killings, Excessive Use of Force in Almaty
Click to expand Image Riot police officers holding 12-gauge shotguns, which can fire both lethal and less-lethal ammunition, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Vladimir...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Target LGBT Afghans
(New York) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not conform to rigid gender norms in Afghanistan have faced an increasingly desperate situation and grave threats to...
View ArticleSyria: Major Problems with UN Procurement Practices
Click to expand Image Vehicles of an aid convoy after arriving at the opposition-held city of Douma, Eastern Ghouta province, Syria, March 9, 2018. © 2018 Samer Bouidani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images...
View ArticleEU: To End Deforestation, Protect Land Rights
Click to expand Image Brazilian Indigenous leaders protest against the destruction of the Amazon forest, outside the European Commission headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, November 5, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleUS: Risky Fix for New York Public Housing Woes
(New York) – A New York City program that privatized control and management of some public housing lacks adequate oversight and protections for residents’ rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
View ArticleEgypt: Forced Returns of Eritrean Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image The scarred back of an Eritrean asylum seeker in Cairo who says Egyptian traffickers tortured him for ransom in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula by dripping molten plastic onto his back,...
View ArticleSouth Korea: What Do the Candidates Say About Rights?
Click to expand Image South Korean activists hold placards on discrimination against women during a protest to mark International Women's Day in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2021. Sign on the right...
View ArticleSerbia: Bahraini Dissident Unlawfully Extradited
Click to expand Image Ahmed Jaffer Muhammad © Private (Beirut) – Serbia extradited a Bahraini political dissident to Bahrain in the early hours of January 24, 2022, despite an order by the European...
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