US State Department Improves Reporting on Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image A new mother holds her hour-old baby in the maternity ward at Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 2020. © 2020 Lynzy Billing In a new report released today,...
View ArticleAngola: Police Arrest, Charge 22 Peaceful Protesters
Click to expand Image Police officers in Luanda, Angola on December 26, 2021. © 2021 OSVALDO SILVA/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Angolan authorities should immediately drop criminal charges...
View ArticleLebanon: Questions for Candidates About Rights
Click to expand Image Activists chant slogans demanding the end of corruption, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 20, 2020. © 2020 Marwan Naamani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Beirut) – Candidates for...
View ArticleBulgaria: Free Online Textbooks for Ukrainian Refugees
Click to expand Image Refugee children from Ukraine at a temporary shelter in Krakow, Poland. March 15, 2022. © Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP (Brussels) – A Bulgarian firm has begun providing free...
View ArticleThailand: Prominent Rights Defender Harassed
Click to expand Image Photo captured on a security camera of the alleged assailant, a woman wearing a mask and a black t-shirt. © 2022 Private (Bangkok) – The authorities in Thailand should urgently...
View ArticleGuatemala: High Stakes for Attorney General’s Nomination
Click to expand Image Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who is seeking re-election, speaks to the press after an interview with a nominating commission in Guatemala City, Wednesday, April...
View ArticleUK Local Elections: A Chance to Improve Children’s Lives
On May 5, voters across London will go to the polls to elect their new local government representatives.These elections will decide who runs London’s local authorities, which are responsible for...
View ArticleMaldives: Reforms Fall Short in Curbing Threats to Free Speech
Click to expand Image Soldiers secure a site after a bomb blast injured Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives parliament speaker and former president, in the capital, Male, May 6, 2021. © 2021 AFP via Getty...
View ArticleIMF/World Bank: Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection
Click to expand Image A woman and her child receive relief goods distributed by a community service center in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 4, 2021. © 2021 Sipa USA via AP (Washington, DC, April 14, 2022)...
View ArticleUK Plan to Ship Asylum Seekers to Rwanda is Cruelty Itself
Click to expand Image British Home Secretary Priti Patel (L), and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta sign an agreement at the Kigali Convention Center in...
View ArticleUS Will Protect Cameroonians from Dangerous Deportations
Click to expand Image Protesters in Washington, DC, call for a halt to deportations to Cameroon; for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroonians in the US; for the release of Cameroonians from...
View ArticleYemen: Latest Round of Saudi-UAE-Led Attacks Targets Civilians
Click to expand Image Rescue members remove rubble covering victims of aerial attacks carried out by the Saudi and UAE-led coalition that targeted a detention facility in the Houthi strong-hold Saada...
View ArticleUS: Public Housing Cutbacks Jeopardize Low-Income People
Click to expand Image Work permits are displayed in front of the New York City Housing Authority's Ocean Bay Apartments Bayside complex during renovations, part of the US Housing and Urban Development...
View ArticleBrazil: Invite UN Experts on Racial Justice
Click to expand Image Activists hold a sign that reads in Portuguese "Justice for Jacarezinho. End massacres in favelas" during a protest a day after police killed 27 people during an operation in...
View ArticleMorocco: Drop Charges Against Activist
Click to expand Image Rabie al-Ablaq © Private (Washington) – Moroccan authorities should drop charges against a social media commentator who risks up to four years in prison on a charge of...
View ArticleAlgeria: Jailed Activist Ends Hunger Strike
Click to expand Image Merzoug Touati © 2021 Facebook (Beirut) – An unjustly imprisoned Algerian blogger and activist ended the hunger strike he had begun three weeks ago to protest both his detention...
View ArticleHouthis Commit to End Violations Against Children in Yemen
Click to expand Image Child soldiers with Houthi fighters hold weapons during a demonstration in Sanaa on March 13, 2015. © 2015 Reuters Seven years into a catastrophic war in Yemen, the Houthis have...
View ArticleChina: Credibility of UN Human Rights Chief’s Visit at Risk
Click to expand Image Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, November 3, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleIndonesia Military Finally Ends Abusive ‘Virginity Test’
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protesting so-called “virginity tests” and sexual violence in Indonesian schools and universities during the Women's March rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2020....
View ArticleRefugees in Europe Need Mental Health Support
Click to expand Image Ukrainians who have fled the war wait outside an NGO-run center that helps refugees with urgent placement and documents on March 23, 2022 in Paris, France. © 2022 AP...
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