Libya: After Prison Escape, Derna Residents Rounded Up
Click to expand Image A view of destroyed buildings and cars after forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar took control of the area, in Derna, Libya, June 13, 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetor (Beirut)...
View ArticleAfter 2 Years of Covid, We’re Still Failing Older People
Click to expand Image Victor Tripiana, 86, reaches out to touch the hand of his daughter-in-law, Silvia Fernandez Sotto, separated by a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of Covid-19, at the...
View ArticleHungarians Helping Ukraine’s Refugees No Excuse for Limited Government Action
Click to expand Image Humanitarian aid distributed by volunteers, Tiszabecs, Hungary, March 2, 2022. © 2022 Lydia Gall / Human Rights Watch At the Hungary-Ukraine border last week and at one of...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Assault Kills Fleeing Civilians
Click to expand Image Ukrainian soldiers help a woman in the town of Irpin, Ukraine on March 6. © 2022 AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak For several hours on March 6, 2022, Russian forces bombarded an...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Warring Parties Should End Attacks on Women, Girls
Click to expand Image A Tigrayan refugee survivor of rape who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, on March 20, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleStanding with Afghan Women and Girls on International Women’s Day
Click to expand Image A Taliban fighter talks with a woman at the government passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 17, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz “While it feels as though the...
View ArticleNigeria Risks Falling Further Behind on Women’s Equality
Click to expand Image Women march during a protest to challenge impunity and gender-based discrimination raids on women in Abuja, Nigeria, May 10, 2019. © 2019 Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images On...
View ArticleUN: Groups Urge Rights Chief to Report on Chinese Government Abuses
Click to expand Image High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. ©...
View ArticleGermany Indicts Alleged Gambia ‘Death Squad’ Driver
Germany has forged ahead with efforts to bring justice for grave crimes with the indictment of a Gambian national accused of being a former member of a Gambian “death squad.” Click to expand Image...
View ArticleA Generation of Children Impacted by Covid-19 School Closures
This piece is the third in a series marking the two year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic. Find more of our work documenting the global response to the coronavirus here.Cataclysm. Inordinate...
View ArticleEU's Generous Response to Ukraine Refugees Shows Another Way is Possible
Click to expand Image People fleeing Ukraine enter Poland through the border crossing Korczowa, Poland, March 4, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu The outpouring of solidarity and empathy for people...
View ArticleChad: Killings by Security Forces in East
Click to expand Image Screenshot from a January 25, 2022 video showing a military vehicle, in the city of Abéché, near the Tago Zagolocemetery where Chadian security forces indiscriminately opened...
View ArticleRussia: Brutal Arrests and Torture, Ill-Treatment of Anti-War Protesters
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a protester in Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Russia on March 6, 2022. © 2022 Dmitry Lebedev/Kommersant/Sipa via AP Images (Berlin) – Russian authorities have...
View ArticleUK Ministry of Justice Treats People with Disabilities as an Afterthought
Click to expand Image Disability rights campaigners protest outside the Houses of Parliament, in Westminster, London on June 24, 2015. © 2015 Press Association via AP Images There is a mantra in the...
View ArticleTrying to Survive in a Besieged Ukrainian City
Click to expand Image Civilians flee the city of Sumy, Ukraine after a temporary ceasefire was announced on March 8, 2022. © 2022 Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images On...
View ArticleKazakhstan Should Criminalize Domestic Violence as Part of Reforms
Click to expand Image Participants at the international Women's Day rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2022. © 2022 Stanislav Beketov At a peaceful rally marking International Women’s Day on March...
View ArticleCovid-19 Vaccine Access is a Right, Not a Privilege
Click to expand Image People wait in a queue to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at an inoculation center, in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, February 25, 2022. © 2022 Suvra Kanti Das/Sipa via AP Images This...
View ArticleFree the Data for Ukraine’s Children
Click to expand Image A girl who fled Ukraine with relatives sits on a bunk bed in a classroom converted into an emergency shelter at a school in Zahony in northeastern Hungary, on the border with...
View ArticleReform Sri Lanka’s Draconian Abortion Law
Click to expand Image Progressive Women's Collective during a protest march for International Women's Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 8, 2021. © 2021 Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto via AP Sri Lanka has...
View ArticleToxic Pollution Demands ‘Immediate, Ambitious Action’
Click to expand Image Morning haze and smog envelops the skyline in New Delhi, India, November 5, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Altaf Qadri A new report by United Nations experts is raising renewed alarms...
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