Uzbekistan: Police Abuses in Autonomous Region Protests
Click to expand Image Uzbekistan security forces fired projected flash/bang grenades at protesters in Kanlykul, Karakalpakstan, July 2022. © 2022 BaseKZ (Berlin) – Uzbek security forces unjustifiably...
View ArticleSyria: Parties to Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic
Click to expand Image A mother holds her child diagnosed with cholera in a hospital in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on September 29, 2022. © 2022 Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are...
View ArticleIs Germany Finally Dealing With Its Abusive Colonial History?
Click to expand Image The Cameroon Minister of External Relations, H.E. Lejeune Mbella Mbella, and Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office, Katja Keul, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, October...
View ArticleGreece’s Surveillance Scandal Puts Rights At Risk
Click to expand Image A woman reads newspaper's headlines referring to the killing of a Greek journalist in Athens on April 10, 2021. © 2021 LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images A European...
View ArticleUS Delegation Makes Historic Visit to International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong A bipartisan United States congressional delegation recently visited The...
View ArticleEuropean Football Group Demands FIFA Remedy Migrant Worker Abuses
Click to expand Image Workers lay the turf inside the Lusail Stadium, the venue for the 2022 Qatar World Cup final, in Lusail, Qatar, November 18, 2021. © 2021 Reuters/Hamad I Mohammed Last Sunday,...
View ArticleThe Ugandan Youth Activists Urging Action at COP27
Click to expand Image Fridays for Future Uganda activists Hilda Flavia Nakabuye and Patience Nabukalu protest the construction of a new pipeline, the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), in April...
View ArticleChagos Islands: Include Long-Expelled Residents in Negotiations
Click to expand Image Rosemond Sameenaden joins other Chagos islanders outside the High Court, London, where they are fighting the UK government for the reinstatement of their homeland. © 2019 Fiona...
View ArticleWestern Sahara: Long-Term Prisoners Await Justice
Click to expand Image Protesters supporting the Gdeim Izik defendants at their trial in Rabat on January 23, 2017. © 2017 Abdelhak Senna/EPA/Shutterstock (Tunis) – Nineteen Sahrawi activists languish...
View ArticleProtect Civilians from Incendiary Weapons
Click to expand Image Incendiary weapons fall over the city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on November 1, 2022. © 2022 Private (Geneva, November 8, 2022) – Countries concerned by the...
View ArticleUK’s Rights Record under Global Spotlight at UN
Click to expand Image Protesters gathered opposite The Royal Courts Of Justice on the first day of a High Court challenge over the UK’s agreement with Rwanda, which would see the UK transfer asylum...
View ArticleItaly: Allow Everyone Rescued to Disembark
Click to expand Image Migrants hold banners asking for help from a deck of the Geo Barents rescue ship operated by Doctors Without Borders, in Catania's port, Sicily, southern Italy, November 7, 2022...
View ArticleKiller Robots: Negotiate Treaty in New Forum
Click to expand Image © 2022 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch Governments should move the discussions of a treaty on autonomous weapons systems, also known as “killer robots,” away from meetings...
View ArticleProtect Freedom of Expression in Mali
Click to expand Image Acting Prime Minister of Mali Abdoulaye Maïga addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 24, 2022. © 2022 Mary Altaffer/AP Photo In Mali, media...
View ArticleUS Midterm Elections Yield Key Human Rights Victories
Click to expand Image Voting booths on the first day of early voting in Orlando, Florida, October 24, 2022. © 2022 Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via AP Photo During Tuesday's midterm elections, voters...
View ArticleQatar World Cup Ambassador’s Homophobic Comments Fuel Discrimination
Click to expand Image Lusail Stadium, the venue of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 final match, in Lusail, Qatar on November 5, 2022. © 2022 Keita Iijima/AP Photo On November 8, Khalid Salman, a 2022...
View ArticleCongo Expels Renowned Journalist
Click to expand Image French journalist Sonia Rolley in Namibia, 2018. © 2018 Private Democratic Republic of Congo authorities on Tuesday expelled French reporter Sonia Rolley after her application...
View ArticleEgypt Denies Entry to Activist at Climate Talks
Click to expand Image Demonstrators participate in a silent protest at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 10, 2022. © 2022 Peter Dejong/AP Photo Governments and civil...
View ArticlePhilippines Swiftly Investigates Journalist’s Killing
Click to expand Image Journalists and activists light candles during a rally following the killing of Filipino journalist Percival Mabasa, also known as Percy Lapid, in Quezon City, Metro Manila,...
View ArticleAfrican Human Rights Body Needs to Embrace Media
Click to expand Image ACHPR Commissioners are chairing the ACHPR’s 73rd Session in Banjul, Gambia, October 2022. © 2022 Francisco Perez/ISHR The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)...
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