Canada Should Mark Ramadan by Helping Bring Home Unlawfully Detained Muslims
Click to expand Image A girl stands in the annex of al-Hol, a camp in northeast Syria detaining thousands of foreign women and children from countries including Canada as family members of Islamic...
View ArticleUS: Congress Should Protect Child Farmworkers
Click to expand Image A 16-year-old worker harvests tobacco on a farm in Kentucky. © 2013 Marcus Bleasdale/VII for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – A bill reintroduced in the United States House...
View ArticleUkraine: Apparent POW Abuse Would Be War Crime
(New York) – Ukraine should ensure an effective investigation into alleged abuse by Ukrainian fighters of Russian prisoners of war (POWs), Human Rights Watch said today. If confirmed, the beating and...
View ArticleChina: Free Uyghur Scholar’s Students
Click to expand Image Ilham Tohti's students, from upper left: Mutellip Imin, Perhat Halmurat, Atikem Rozi; lower left: Shohret Nijat, Akbar Imin, Luo Yuwei. © 2022 Private (New York) – The Chinese...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Spate of Criminal Cases Against Journalists
Click to expand Image The Kyrgyzstan flag is raised at Ala-Too Square, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 3, 2022. © 2022 Vladimir Voronin / AP (Bishkek) – Kyrgyzstan authorities have stepped up the...
View ArticleTorture in Syrian Prisons is Not a Joke
Click to expand Image Syrian women hold banners outside the court in Koblenz, Germany, after it convicted a former Syrian secret police officer of crimes against humanity for having overseen abuse of...
View ArticlePolish Activists Arrested for Saving Lives
Click to expand Image Two women and a child huddle in sleeping bags on the forest floor after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border near Michalowo on October 6, 2021. © 2021 Maciej...
View ArticleNo ‘Beautiful Game’ Without Rights in Qatar
On March 31, as FIFA convened its 72nd Congress in Doha, one speaker took a brave stance on the uncomfortable truth about human rights in Qatar.Lise Klaveness, the Norwegian Football Association...
View ArticleUkraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas
Click to expand Image Destroyed Russian armored vehicles in the city of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. © 2022 ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images (Warsaw) – Human Rights Watch has...
View ArticleIMF: Prioritize Social Protection in Egypt Loan Talks
Click to expand Image International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Beirut) – The...
View ArticleMigrants, Asylum Seekers Locked Up in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The Zhuravychi Migrant Accommodation Center. © 2022 Global Detention Project (Berlin) – Scores of migrants who had been arbitrarily detained in Ukraine remain locked up there and...
View ArticleBangladesh: New Restrictions on Rohingya Camps
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees lie on a razed shop demolished by authorities in the Kutupalong camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, December 10, 2021. © 2021 Tanbir Miraj/AFP via Getty (New York) –...
View ArticleEU: Press Vietnam to Improve Rights Record
Click to expand Image Vietnamese Political Detainees and Prisoners, from upper left: Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Thi Tam, Trinh Ba Phuong, Pham Doan Trang, Le Trong Hung; lower left: Nguyen Tuong Thuy,...
View ArticleCanada: Jailing Immigration Detainees Infringes on Rights
Click to expand Image © 2021 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Ottawa) – Canada’s practice of incarcerating immigration detainees in provincial jails is inconsistent with international human...
View ArticleIMF/Sri Lanka: Address Economic Rights, Corruption in Loans
Click to expand Image Sri Lankans wait in line with their empty gas cylinders near a gas shop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 1, 2022. © 2022 Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via AP (Washington, DC) – Any...
View ArticleMali: Massacre by Army, Foreign Soldiers
Click to expand Image © 2013 Human Rights Watch (Nairobi) – Malian armed forces and associated foreign soldiers allegedly summarily executed an estimated 300 civilian men, some of them suspected...
View ArticleHungary: Ruling Party’s Lock On Power Threatens EU
Click to expand Image Ballots are being counted after polling stations closed for the general election in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 3, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi (Budapest) – The EU...
View ArticleReport Shows Climate Crisis Solutions Exist but Action Is Lacking
Click to expand Image "Fridays for Future" protests the climate crisis on Global Climate Strike day at a rally in New York, NY, on March 25, 2022. © 2022 Gabriele Holtermann/Sipa via AP Images This...
View Article‘Constitutional Coup’ Threatened in Pakistan
Click to expand Image The parliament building in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move on Sunday to dissolve parliament rather than...
View ArticleMexico Bill Would Further Endanger Disability Rights
For the second time in less than six months, a prominent member of the majority party in the Mexican Senate has introduced a bill to amend the country’s civil law framework with provisions that would...
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