Mali: Coordinated Massacres by Islamist Armed Groups
Click to expand Image United Nations police patrol Ménaka region in northeast Mali on June 13, 2021. © 2021 MINUSMA/Gema Cortes (Nairobi) – Islamist armed groups in Mali have killed hundreds of people...
View ArticleEnding US Subminimum Tipped Wages can Reduce Poverty and Inequality
Click to expand Image Francis Nwokeji, a restaurant worker from New York, speaks during a press conference calling on Congress to abolish the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers in Washington DC,...
View ArticleRacist Political Mailer Feeds Misinformation in New York
Click to expand Image A sign advertising a bail bonds business is displayed near Brooklyn's jail and courthouse complex in New York, July 2015. © 2015 Kathy Willens/AP Photo Earlier this month,...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: First War Crimes Verdict Due
Click to expand Image Proceedings at the Special Criminal Court in May 2022 during its first trial. © 2022 Special Criminal Court (Nairobi) – The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Authorities Renew Attack on Media
Click to expand Image President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov speaks at a plenary session of parliament where new ministers are sworn in on March 9, 2022 in Bishkek. © 2022 Nazir Aliyev Tayfur/Anadolu...
View ArticleCongo’s Indigenous Rights Bill Stalls
Click to expand Image An Indigenous woman and her children walk to a market to sell pottery on Idjwi island, eastern Congo, January 2017. © 2017 Therese Di Campo/Reuters Four months ago, the...
View ArticleDecree on Libyan Women’s Non-Citizen Children Fails Discrimination Test
Click to expand Image A woman walks with her two children at sunset near the seashore in Benghazi April 29, 2014. © 2014 Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters On October 19, the Council of Ministers of the...
View ArticleStill No Justice for 2020 Zanzibar Election Violence
Click to expand Image Residents line up to vote before the deadline in Zanzibar, Tanzania, October 28, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo Today marks two years since Tanzania’s most recent general elections, when...
View ArticleAustralia’s FIFA World Cup Team First to Collectively Back Workers, LGBT Rights
Click to expand Image The Australian national soccer team, the Socceroos, pose for a photo before the start of a game in Brisbane, Australia, September 22, 2022. © 2022 Dan Peled/AP Photo Australia’s...
View ArticleTurkey Jails Another Human Rights Defender
Click to expand Image Şebnem Korur Fincancı © 2022 TİHV Şebnem Korur Fincancı is the latest human rights defender to be jailed in Turkey as authorities pursue a bogus investigation against her for...
View ArticleBrazil: President-Elect Lula Should Prioritize Human Rights
Click to expand Image Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva votes in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state, in the presidential runoff on October 30, 2022. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência...
View ArticleBahrain: Political Isolation Laws Ban Opposition
Click to expand Image © 2022 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Beirut) –The Bahraini government is using its political isolation laws and a series of other tactics to keep activists and former...
View ArticleICC: Afghanistan Inquiry Can Resume
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File (The Hague) – The International Criminal Court...
View ArticleRecord Number of States Condemn China’s Persecution of Uyghurs
Click to expand Image The perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang region, April 23, 2021. © 2021 Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo Fifty United Nations...
View ArticleSweden’s New Government Abandons Feminist Foreign Policy
Click to expand Image The new Swedish government pictured on Lejonbacken's terrace at Stockholm Palace, Sweden, October 18, 2022. © 2022 Jonas Ekströmer/TT/AP Photo In 2014, the Swedish government...
View ArticleBahrain: Pope Francis Should Condemn Bahrain Rights Record
(Beirut) – Pope Francis should press Bahrain to end its human rights abuses when he visits the country from November 3 to 6, 2022, nine human rights organizations said today. While in Bahrain, he is...
View ArticleSyria: Civilian Homes Demolished in Security Operation
Click to expand Image US soldiers and Syrian Democratic Forces standing by loader and military vehicles in East Ghweran neighbourhood at 2 p.m. on January 29, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleASEAN: Act to Stop Myanmar Military Abuses
Click to expand Image Activists protest the Myanmar military coup during an ASEAN summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2021. © 2021 Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo (New York) – Governments attending...
View ArticleFighting in Eastern Congo Puts Civilians at Risk, Again
Click to expand Image Civilians flee fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army near Kibumba, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, October 29, 2022. © 2022 Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo...
View ArticleSouth Africa Needs to Step Up Fight Against Gender Based Violence
Click to expand Image President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering the keynote address at the National Gender-based Violence and Femicide Summit on November 1, 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa. © 2018 GCIS The...
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