Tunisia: Questions and Answers on the Draft Constitution
Click to expand Image Tunisia’s shuttered parliament. President Saeid suspended the body on July 25 as part of his seizure of extraordinary powers. July 26, 2021, Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia. © 2021 Ahmed...
View ArticleSwedish Court Finds Iranian Guilty Over Mass Executions
Click to expand Image Photos of victims at a memorial commemorating those killed during the mass executions in the 1980s, Khavaran cemetery in Tehran, Iran, 2020. © 2020 Private "We are not looking...
View ArticleGuatemala: Attorney General Arbitrarily Fires Prosecutors
Click to expand Image Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras, reappointed on May 16, 2022, speaks to the press after an interview with a nominating commission in Guatemala City. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleUN Member States Should Accredit Blocked Human Rights Groups
Click to expand Image The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) meets at the UN Headquarters in New York, February 27, 2018. © 2018 Luiz Rampelotto/Sipa via AP Images United Nations...
View ArticleBrazil: Candidates Should Address Human Rights
Click to expand Image A woman, accompanied by a child, casts her ballot in the municipal election in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. © AP Photo/Nelson Antoine (São Paulo) – Candidates running...
View ArticleBiden Should Not Renew Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
Click to expand Image People inspect a damaged building at the site of a Saudi-led airstrike on Sanaa, Yemen. © 2022 Hani Al-Ansi/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images President Biden is set to land in Saudi...
View ArticleSupport Justice for Serious Crimes Globally
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File (New York) – Countries should take concrete steps...
View ArticleFrance’s Energy Plans Should Not Include Ignoring UAE Abuses
Click to expand Image French President, Emmanuel Macron and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan meet in Fontainebleau, France on September 15, 2021. © 2021 Chesnot/Getty...
View ArticleNSO Fails to Explain Targeting of Human Rights Watch Employee
Click to expand Image Protesters outside NSO Group’s office near Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 25, 2021. © 2021 REUTERS/Nir Elias When NSO Group, purveyor of the spyware Pegasus, told Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleA Day to Reflect on International Criminal Justice
Click to expand Image Demonstrators welcoming Karim Khan, International Criminal Court prosecutor, outside the UN Development Programme headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, October 29, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleDetained Australian Teenager Dies in Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image Yusuf Zahab in a photo that he sent Human Rights Watch from al-Sina’a prison during the Islamic State (ISIS) siege in January 2022. © 2022 Private (Canberra, July 18, 2022) –...
View ArticleYemen: Act to Avert Humanitarian Catastrophe
Click to expand Image Idle cargo and oil tanker ships at the port of Hodeida, Yemen. © 2018 AP Photo/Hani Mohammed (Beirut) – Governments should immediately support a salvage operation to prevent a...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Transgender People Denied Equal Rights
(New York) – Transgender people in El Salvador experience significant discrimination in daily life because there is no procedure for legal gender recognition, Human Rights Watch and COMCAVIS TRANS said...
View ArticleThe Hand at the Helm of Frontex
Click to expand Image A Portuguese vessel in a Frontex operation in Lesbos, Greece, 2016. © 2016 Frontex For too long, the European Union external borders agency, Frontex, has operated as though...
View ArticleMyanmar: TotalEnergies Withdraws; Junta Gains
Click to expand Image (Paris) – Myanmar’s abusive junta will obtain an increased stake in the country’s largest oil and gas field when the French company TotalEnergies withdraws from Myanmar on July...
View ArticleThailand: Free Detained Critics of Monarchy
Click to expand Image Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom (left) and Nutthanit “Bai Por” Duangmusit, Thai pro-democracy activists, have been on a hunger strike since June 2, 2022 to protest their pre-trial...
View ArticleNicaragua: Government Dismantles Civil Society
Click to expand Image On May 31, 2022, Nicaragua's national assembly canceled the registration of 82 non-governmental organizations as well as the country's language academy, accusing them of having...
View ArticleBelarusian Journalist’s Sentencing Indicates New Levels of Repression
Click to expand Image Journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva is seen reporting for Poland-based media outlet Belsat TV, in Minsk, Belarus, August 2020. © 2020 Private Last week, a court in Homieĺ, Belarus,...
View ArticleMorocco: Uyghur Activist at Risk of Extradition
(Tunis) – One year after his arrest at Casablanca airport, Yidiresi Aishan, also known as Idris Hasan, a Uyghur activist, remains under threat of extradition from Morocco to China, where there are...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Lacks Tenacity on the Rule of Law
Click to expand Image European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. © 2015 Reuters The European Commission annual Rule of Law Report,...
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