Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Exacerbates Hunger in Middle East, North Africa
Click to expand Image A boy buys bread from a bakery in Sanaa, Yemen, March 2022. Yemen imports at least 27 percent of its wheat from Ukraine and 8 percent from Russia. © 2022 Hani...
View ArticleAfrica’s Governments Can Do More to Protect Pregnant Students
Click to expand Image A 17-year-old Form Three student, who has a young daughter, leaves a classroom at her senior school in Mukono district, Uganda, February 15, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa...
View ArticleUkraine: Ensure Safe Passage, Aid for Mariupol Civilians
Click to expand Image Ganna Kotelnikova, an anesthesiologist, and her family try to get a signal over medium wave radio to get information about the situation inside the city on March 7, 2022 © Ganna...
View ArticleEmerging Battles Over Forests Crucial to Protect Rights, Tackle Climate Crisis
“The forest dies first, we die later,” said Ka’apor chief Itahú as we patrolled the vast Alto Turiaçu Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon, looking for evidence of illegal logging. During our...
View ArticleMyanmar: US Recognizes Genocide Against Rohingya
Click to expand Image Myanmar armed forces march on the 75th anniversary of Union Day on February 12, 2022 in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. © 2022/ AP Photos (Washington, DC) – The United States government has...
View ArticleMokom’s Reckoning in the Central African Republic
Click to expand Image Maxim Mokom at a peace deal signing ceremony in Bangui, Central African Republic, February 6, 2019. Abbas was announced dead by 3R’s leadership on April 2, 2021. © 2019 GGt On...
View ArticleAustralia: Extreme Heat Threatens Lives
Click to expand Image Denham Court Housing Estate in Western Sydney. Housing estates with homes crammed close together capture and store heat that radiates from one neighbor to the next. January 28,...
View ArticleQatar’s Migrant Workers Sidelined Ahead of World Cup
Click to expand Image T-shirt campaign by the German team at the World Cup qualification match between Germany and Iceland on March 25, 2021 in Duisburg, Germany. © 2021 Marvin Ibo...
View ArticleBangladesh: Officials Threaten Rohingya for Setting Up Schools
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugee students demonstrate against being expelled from Bangladeshi secondary schools in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 6, 2019. © 2019 Private (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleIn Tunisia, State Television the Latest Battleground
Click to expand Image Members of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNTJ) protest in front of the state television channel headquarters, March 11, 2022. © 2022 SNTJ Tunisian President...
View ArticleDR Congo: Martial Law Brings Crackdown in East
Jean Paul Ngahangondi, a provincial deputy for North Kivu, has been detained since February 6, 2022, for "contempt" of the head of state and the army: "After my arrest, I was taken to the ANR...
View ArticleUganda: Hundreds ‘Disappeared,’ Tortured
Click to expand Image Ugandan soldiers patrol near the house of Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, in Magere, Uganda, two days after Uganda's...
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges Against ‘Citizen Reporter’
Click to expand Image Le Van Dung. © 2019 Le Van Dung (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately drop the politically motivated charges against the social commentator Le Van Dung and...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Threaten Revenge Killings
Click to expand Image A Taliban fighter raises a flag in the ruins of Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan, November 30, 2021. ©2021/Alfred Yaghobzadeh/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) (New York)...
View ArticleUS Should End Marijuana Prohibition
Click to expand Image Supporters hold flags near the Capitol in Washington, DC, during a rally in favor of marijuana legalization on April 24, 2017. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon In the last Congress, the...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Reopening Girls’ Schools Needs Watching
Click to expand Image Afghan girls exit classrooms at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, one of the few provinces where the Taliban permitted girls' secondary schools to reopen, November 25, 2021....
View ArticleTanzania: Expedite Protections for Girls’ Education
Click to expand Image The flag of the United Republic of Tanzania. © 2010 TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Tanzania’s pledge to adopt guidelines to ensure that schools ensure adolescent...
View ArticleIraq: Impunity for Violence Against LGBT People
Click to expand Image © 2022 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (Baghdad) – Armed groups in Iraq abduct, rape, torture, and kill lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, with impunity,...
View ArticleRussia: Kremlin Targets Critics Amid Ukraine War
Click to expand Image Alexei Navalny, a jailed opposition leader, during a court session in Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, March 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin) – The...
View ArticleEnglish Premier League: Urgently Adopt Human Rights Policy
Click to expand Image Newcastle United players warm up before the Premier League match at the Amex Stadium, Brighton, United Kingdom on July 20, 2020. © 2020 AP Images (London) – The English Premier...
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