Texas Officials Threaten Transgender Children and Families
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather outside the State Capitol to speak out against anti-transgender legislation being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House in Austin, Texas, May 20,...
View ArticleRussia: Arbitrary Detentions of Anti-War Protesters
Click to expand Image People attend an anti-war protest, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24, 2022, after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a military operation in Ukraine. © 2022...
View ArticleEU: Disappointing Draft on Corporate Due Diligence
Click to expand Image “I don’t have gloves; when we pick up the fruit bunches it hurts us,” said a palm fruit harvester that has worked for the Congolese palm oil company PHC for over a decade....
View ArticleRussia: With War, Censorship Reaches New Heights
Click to expand Image Journalists work in the news room of the independent Dozhd (Rain) television channel in Moscow, Russia. © 2021 AP/Denis Kaminev (Berlin) – Russian authorities have threatened to...
View ArticlePakistan: Repeal Amendment to Draconian Cyber Law
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalists and civil society activists take part in a demonstration called by the journalists’ union to condemn attacks on journalists, in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 28,...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Candidates Speak Out on Human Rights
Click to expand Image South Korea’s presidential candidates – (l to r) Lee Jae-myung, Ahn Cheol-soo, Shim Sang-jung, and Yoon Suk-yeol – pose for a photo before a televised debate for the March 9...
View ArticleGambia Calls for Justice as Rohingya Face Dire Threats
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees await the arrival of a U.N. Security Council team at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/A.M. Ahad A...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Government Critics Held on Dubious Charges
Click to expand Image South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9,...
View ArticleEU: Keep Borders Open for People Fleeing Ukraine
Click to expand Image People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine arrive at a temporary camp in Przemysl, Poland, February 28, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Yara Nardi (Brussels) – The European Union and...
View ArticleFrance Expands Abortion Access in Two Key Moves
Click to expand Image People attend a rally to defend the right of abortion in Paris, France on September 26, 2020. © 2020 Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images Over the past 10...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Hunger Crisis Has Economic Roots
Click to expand Image Afghans waiting in lines to receive emergency assistance from the World Food Program (WFP) in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 3, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Bram Janssen (Washington, DC)...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Burning Our Past to Protect Our Future
Click to expand Image Documents and laptop destroyed by a resident to avoid confiscation by the Taliban, in Kabul, February 28, 2022. © 2022 Private “I had to burn all of your books and your...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom: Provide Sanctuary to Those Fleeing Ukraine
Click to expand Image People fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, cross train tracks to get to a train leaving for Poland, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleReinvigorating Public Housing by ‘Reimagining’ Eviction in NYC
Click to expand Image The Queensbridge Houses, managed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), sit beneath the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, November 16, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Mark Lennihan The...
View ArticleGlobal Plastics Treaty: A Historic Opportunity to Protect Human Rights
Click to expand Image UN Environment Assembly President Espen Barth Eide walks past a heap of plastic bottle waste during a field trip to Dandora Dumping site in Nairobi, Kenya ahead of the Fifth...
View ArticleUkraine: Countries Request ICC War Crimes Inquiry
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch Thirty-eight governments have taken a significant...
View ArticlePending Execution Highlights Singapore’s Failures on Disability Rights
Click to expand Image Activists demonstrate against the impending execution of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, outside the Singaporean Embassy in...
View ArticleAfghan Women Watching the Walls Close In
Click to expand Image A woman wearing a burqa walks to her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 14, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris When the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan on August...
View ArticleSri Lanka: UN Report Describes Alarming Rights Situation
Click to expand Image Tamil National Alliance lawmaker Shanakiyan Rasamanickam urges repeal of the abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act, Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 15, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Eranga...
View ArticleGreece Should Know that Refugees Can Come from Anywhere
Click to expand Image A dinghy with migrants, left, in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast on April 2, 2021. © 2021 Hellenic Coast Guard via AP...
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