Cambodia: Quash Convictions of ‘ADHOC 5’
Click to expand Image © 2018 ADHOC (Bangkok) – The Cambodian authorities should quash the baseless criminal convictions of four members and one former member of the Cambodian Human Rights and...
View ArticleZambia: Hope for Kabwe Lead Poisoning Victims
Click to expand Image Three girls play the game isolo on the ground in the lead-affected township of Waya in Kabwe. Soil is the main source of lead exposure in Kabwe. © 2018 Zama Neff/Human Rights...
View ArticleAustralia: Climate Protesters’ Rights Violated
Click to expand Image (Left) Violet Coco, 31, spent 21 days under what amounted to house arrest and is under a curfew from 3 p.m.- 10 a.m. (Middle) Andrew George, 33, was sentenced to three months in...
View ArticleLGBTI Activists in Ghana Sue Over Abusive Arrest and Detention
Click to expand Image A young lesbian woman at an LGBT community center in Accra, Ghana. © 2017 Human Rights Watch Last week, a group of Ghanaian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...
View ArticleThe UK Government’s Bill of Wrongs
Click to expand Image UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, speaks during a cabinet meeting with at 10 Downing Street, London, May 24, 2022. © 2022 Daniel Leal/Pool via AP The UK government has...
View ArticleHorror Behind Closed Doors of Polish Residential Institution
Click to expand Image Women hold banners during a Supermothers Day protest in Warsaw on May 26, 2018. © 2018 Luczniewski/NurPhoto via Getty Images “My child’s nightmare lasted around a year and a...
View ArticleA Suffocating Environment for Greek Civil Society
Click to expand Image Supporters of activists from a migrant search-and-rescue group, who are facing espionage and other felony charges, gather outside a court before their trial in Mytilene port, on...
View ArticleUS States Should Protect Youth Abortion Access
Click to expand Image Protesters rally in support of abortion rights outside the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas on May 14, 2022. © 2022 Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP As people...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Topples Roe v. Wade in a Blow to Rights
Click to expand Image Abortion rights activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana In a predicted but...
View ArticleCrackdown in Russia Requires Dedicated UN Monitoring
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a demonstrator holding a poster reading "Hands off Memorial, freedom for political prisoners" in front of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in...
View ArticleUS: Abortion Access is a Human Right
Click to expand Image Abortion rights activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana (Washington, DC) –...
View ArticleJudge Tries to Block Abortion for 11-Year-Old-Rape Survivor in Brazil
Click to expand Image Women hold a banner calling for “legal, safe and free abortion,” during a protest in front of the municipal theater in Rio de Janeiro. © 2018 Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil “Do...
View ArticleTanzania: Court to Rule on Education Ban for Pregnant Students
Click to expand Image The flag of the United Republic of Tanzania. © 2010 TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – A landmark case on Tanzania’s discriminatory ban against students who are...
View ArticleCameroon: Separatist Abuses in Anglophone Regions
Click to expand Image A burned-out classroom in the government primary school in Molyko, Buea, South-West Cameroon, destroyed by suspected separatist fighters on February 7, 2022. © Private, February...
View ArticleLebanon: Commitment Needed to Tackle Torture
Click to expand Image Ziad Itani, a Lebanese actor, who was exonerated of spying for Israel, is carried after he was released by Lebanese authorities. Itani has accused security officials of torturing...
View ArticlePolish Court Rules Pushback of Asylum Seekers Unlawful
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 ArticleMaldives Arrests Suspects in Cases of Murdered Activists
Click to expand Image (Left): Relatives of disappeared Maldivian journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla hold a silent protest during International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances in Colombo,...
View ArticleIndia: Free, Drop Charges Against Teesta Setalvad
Click to expand Image Protestors demand the release of activist Teesta Setalvad after she was arrested in Mumbai, India, 27 June, 2022. © Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – The Indian...
View ArticlePakistan Court Holds State Responsible for Enforced Disappearances
Click to expand Image Relatives hold placards and photos of missing family members during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 20, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed The Islamabad High Court...
View ArticleMorocco/Spain: Horrific Migrant Deaths at Melilla Border
Click to expand Image Migrants hold placards during an anti-racism demonstration in the Moroccan capital Rabat on June 28, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images (Milan, June 29, 2022) – The deaths of at...
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