UK’s Rights Assessment of Rwanda Not Based on Facts
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards at a demonstration in London, United Kingdom, April 14, 2022. © 2022 Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/ Sipa via AP Images This week, the United Kingdom published...
View ArticleA First Step for Justice in DR Congo
Click to expand Image A man wearing a T-shirt with portraits of Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana attends the trial in Kinshasa on April 30, 2013 of policemen accused of killing the two men in 2010....
View ArticleFerdinand Marcos Jr.’s Contempt for the Philippine Press
Click to expand Image Incoming Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks to reporters at his headquarters in Mandaluyong, Philippines, May 11, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Aaron Favila At a press...
View ArticleHong Kong: Prominent Democracy Advocates Arrested
Click to expand Image From left, retired Archbishop of Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, barrister Margaret Ng, Professor Hui Po-Keung, and singer Denise Ho attend a press conference to announce the...
View ArticleRio Police Tear Down Memorial about Police Violence
At least eight state police vehicles carrying men armed with assault rifles, some in military fatigues, drove into the Jacarezinho neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 11. They stopped, and...
View ArticleHonduras Recognizes Its Responsibility in Trans Killing
Click to expand Image Rosa Hernández, mother of Vicky Hernández, holding a picture of her daughter. © Red Lésbica Cattrachas “We recognize before the international community, the Honduran people, and...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: Armed Islamists Kill, Rape Civilians
Click to expand Image A government soldier walks past a group of villagers displaced by fighting in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region, February 3, 2020. © 2020 Olympia de Maismont/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleStudent in Nigeria Murdered Over Blasphemy Allegation
Click to expand Image A burned-out security post where Deborah Samuel, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education, was murdered in Sokoto, Nigeria, on May 13, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Olu Akinrele...
View ArticleAs Sri Lanka’s Tamils Remember War Dead, Justice Remains Elusive
Click to expand Image Razor wire installed by the Sri Lankan Army along a beach in Mullaitivu district, where many civilians were killed at the end of the civil war in May 2009. © 2017 Creative Touch...
View ArticleNorth Korea Acknowledges Health Crisis amid Covid-19 Outbreak
Click to expand Image A first-ever government-released photograph showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wearing a mask, during a visit to a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 15, 2022. ©...
View ArticleBurundi: Suspected Opponents Killed, Detained, Tortured
Click to expand Image Burundi's president Évariste Ndayishimiye at the European Union-Africa Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 17, 2022. © 2022 Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images...
View ArticleUkraine: Executions, Torture During Russian Occupation
Click to expand Image Volodymyr Ivashchenko shows the basement where he sheltered in the initial days of the war, together with his wife, mother-in-law, daughter, and 3-year-old grandson, in Yahidne,...
View ArticleTajikistan: Tensions Escalating in Autonomous Region
Click to expand Image Summit of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Kremlin, May 16, 2022. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is on the far right. © 2022...
View ArticleOpposition Leader, Supporters Arrested in Chad
Chadian president, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, has dashed hopes for further reforms with the arrest of six members and supporters of Wakit Tamma, a coalition of Chadian opposition parties and civil...
View ArticleFIFA: Pay for Harm to Qatar’s Migrant Workers
(London) – Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in Qatar have not received financial compensation or any other adequate remedy for serious labor abuses suffered while building and servicing...
View ArticleUS/South Korea: Promote Rights in North Korea
Click to expand Image US President Joe Biden, left, and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, right. © 2021 AP Photo/Alex Brandon, and 2022 Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP (Seoul) – US President...
View ArticleQuad Leaders: Spotlight Rights, Democracy in Asia
Click to expand Image From top left, clockwise: US President Joe Biden. © 2022 AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. © 2021 Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP; Australian...
View ArticleMillions Dying Globally Because of Unabated Pollution
Click to expand Image Air pollution in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 3, 2020. © 2020 Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via AP Today, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet revealed the terrifying extent...
View ArticleUS: Flawed Military Review of Civilian Casualties in Syria
Click to expand Image Black smoke billows from the last small piece of territory held by Islamic State forces as US-backed fighters attack the area with artillery and airstrikes in Baghouz, Syria,...
View ArticleGuatemala: Attorney General’s Reappointment Threatens Rights
Click to expand Image Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and Attorney General Consuelo Porras pose for photos after she is sworn in for another four-year term, at the National Palace in...
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