Ukraine: Russian Forces Fired On Civilian Vehicles
Click to expand Image Maksym Maksymenko’s shot-up car in Hostomel, Ukraine. Russian forces opened fire on the vehicle on February 28, 2022 while Maksym was trying to evacuate with his mother,...
View ArticleOlder People No Longer Invisible Casualties of War in Ukraine
Click to expand Image An older woman is evacuated from a hospice in Chasiv Yar city, Donetsk district, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris The impact of war on older people...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Evidence of Serious Abuse in State of Emergency
Click to expand Image People wait for news of the release of relatives detained during the state of emergency in El Salvador, at the security perimeter of the Izalco prison in Izalco, El Salvador, on...
View ArticleLow Income Puts Older People’s Rights at Risk
Click to expand Image Zenobia Ansualve, 88, eats lunch at her home in Caracas, Venezuela, August 2021. Ansualve lives alone on US$20 a month and relies on a friend to help buy her groceries and cook...
View ArticleMexico: Address Persistent Violence Against Journalists
Click to expand Image Journalists from Veracruz commemorate their killed colleagues and demand an end to violence against journalists during a nationwide demonstration, at the Zócalo of Veracruz,...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Abuses by Russia-Linked Forces
Click to expand Image A UN peacekeeper alongside a member of Russian security forces and a member of Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s presidential guard in Bangui, December 27,...
View ArticleTime for British Columbia to Cancel Immigration Detention Contracts
Click to expand Image © Shivangi Sikri/Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity Human rights organizations and advocates across the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) are launching a...
View ArticleIndia: Media Freedom Under Threat
Click to expand Image Journalists protest against authorities’ growing restrictions on media, outside the Press Club of India, New Delhi, India, February 18, 2021. © 2021 Pradeep Gaur/SOPA...
View ArticleNo ‘Dignity and Pride’ in World Cup Labor Abuses
Click to expand Image Workers walk to the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar, December 20, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar At a May 2 conference entitled “Managing...
View ArticleWhat Roe v Wade Means for Human Rights
Click to expand Image A crowd of people gather outside the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, May 2, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Anna Johnson On Monday night, POLITICO published a leaked draft US Supreme...
View ArticlePhilippines: Witnesses Retract Testimony Against Duterte Critic
Click to expand Image Senator Leila de Lima prepares to address the media after a warrant for her arrest was issued by a regional trial court in Pasay city, Philippines, February 23, 2017. © 2017 AP...
View ArticleConcerns Remain as Egypt Frees Activists and Critics
Click to expand Image Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entrances of Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, August 2, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File During the last days of...
View ArticleKazakhstan: No Justice for January Protest Victims
Click to expand Image Demonstrators attend a rally in memory of victims of the January 2022 country-wide unrest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, February 13, 2022. © 2022 ALEXANDR BOGDANOV/AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleFrontex Reform Needed to Uphold Human Rights
Click to expand Image A man holds a banner during a protest against pushbacks of migrants near the border crossing between Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina in Maljevac, Croatia, June 19, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleIran: Release Detained Teacher Activists
Click to expand Image Thousands of Iranian teachers took to the streets in 28 cities across the country, demanding better labor protections, February 2015. © 2015 Siavosh Hosseini, Sipa via AP Images...
View ArticleCosta Rica’s Mental Health Bill a Step Back for Human Rights
Click to expand Image A plenary session in the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly in San José, September 28, 2021. © 2021 Asamblea Legislativa de la Republica de Costa Rica via Wikimedia Commons Last...
View ArticleHow Data Targets People Seeking Abortion
Click to expand Image A Planned Parenthood clinic in Louisville, Kentucky on April 14, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Piper Hudspeth Blackburn Vice Motherboard recently reported that a location data firm is...
View ArticleNew Covid-19 Death Count Should Prompt Stronger Action
Click to expand Image Activists hold a candlelight vigil in front of the White House in Washington DC, May 4, 2022. © 2022 Joy Asico/AP Images for Public Citizen Nearly 15 million people have died...
View ArticleAlgeria: Arbitrary Travel Bans on Diaspora Activists
Click to expand Image Algerians demonstrate in Algiers to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak movement, February 22, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Toufik Doudou (Beirut) – Algerian authorities have...
View ArticleUkraine: Migrants Locked Up Near Front Lines
Click to expand Image A member of the Ukrainian armed forces walks past the wreckage of a house damaged by rockets on the southern outskirts of Mykolaiv, Ukraine on March 9, 2022. © 2022 Scott...
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