Malaysia: Rights Agenda for Next Government
Click to expand Image Motorcyclists ride past political party flags in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 6, 2022. © 2022 Wong Fok Loy/Sipa via AP Images (Bangkok) – Political parties in Malaysia’s...
View ArticleMusk Chaos Raises Serious Rights Concerns Over Twitter
Click to expand Image © 2022. AP In these early days of Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, there’s little to be optimistic about from a human rights perspective. Musk’s chaotic, shoot-from-the hip...
View ArticleG20 Leaders Should Publicly Challenge China’s Xi on Abuses
Click to expand Image Chinese security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang region, November 4, 2017. © 2017 Ng Han Guan/AP Images Most of the world leaders attending...
View ArticleQatar: Rights Abuses Stain FIFA World Cup
Click to expand Image © John Holmes, for Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The FIFA World Cup from November 20 to December 18, 2022, will be played following years of serious migrant labor and human...
View ArticleImmigration Detention Campaign Focuses on Canada’s Federal Government
Click to expand Image Following the success of four provinces canceling their immigration detention contracts with the Canada Border Services Agency, human rights organizations and advocates across...
View ArticleCOP27: Governments Should Reject Weak Carbon Market Rules
(Sharm El-Sheikh) – Countries attending the 27th annual United Nations climate change Conference of Parties (COP27) in Egypt should reject newly proposed recommendations for removals in a global carbon...
View ArticleSocial Audits No Cure for Retail Supply Chain Labor Abuse
Click to expand Image Bangladeshi worker at a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 2, 2022. © 2022 Habibur Rahman/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – Social...
View ArticleEU: Press Central Asian Countries Over Rights Violations
Click to expand Image From left to right: Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev, Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mukhtar Tileuberdi, EU's foreign policy...
View ArticleRare Meeting of Egyptian, International Rights Groups
Click to expand Image Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1, 2021. © 2021 Yves...
View ArticleUS Jails and Prisons Sink to Banning Mail
Click to expand Image A prisoner holds a tablet that he checked out from a corrections officer, left, at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men, in Concord, N.H., July 23, 2018. © 2018 Charles...
View ArticleJailed Belarusian Rights Defender Faces Ill-Treatment
Click to expand Image Nasta Lojka, 2022. © 2022 Private On Monday, a court in Minsk, Belarus, sentenced human rights defender Nasta Lojka to 15 days’ detention on bogus charges of “petty hooliganism”....
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges Against Dissident on Facebook
Click to expand Image Bui Van Thuan. © Private (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the outspoken commentator Bui Van Thuan and drop the politically motivated charges...
View ArticleEgypt: Detentions, Repression Follow Protest Calls
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 (Beirut) – Egyptian...
View ArticleAfghan Child Custody Case Exposes US Wartime Abuses
Click to expand Image US special operations forces conduct combat operations in southeast Afghanistan, May 2019. © 2019 Sgt. Jaerett Engeseth/US Army On September 5, 2019, US armed forces and Afghan...
View ArticleGovernments Should Commit to Fossil Fuel Phase Out at COP27
Click to expand Image Community leaders from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice rally at COP27 for a swift, just and equitable phaseout of fossil fuels, November 15, 2022. © 2022 Hugo...
View ArticleUS: Child Welfare System Harms Families
(New York) – Child welfare systems in the United States too often treat poverty as the basis for charges of neglect and decisions to remove children from their parents, Human Rights Watch and the...
View ArticleFIFA/Qatar: Migrant Workers Call for Compensation for Abuses
(Beirut) – Migrant workers and their families are demanding compensation from FIFA and Qatar authorities for abuses, including unexplained deaths, that workers suffered preparing for the 2022 FIFA...
View ArticleLandmines: Boost Support for Global Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image Members of a special demining unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine searching for landmines in Horenka, Kyiv oblast, May 27, 2022. © 2022 Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Covid-19 Used as Pretext to Seal Border
(Seoul) – The North Korean government has substantially increased security along its northern border, using Covid-19 as the justification, further restricting travel and trade, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleUS: Reject Texas Border Militarization
Click to expand Image People gather at a press conference on Operation Lone Star outside the Customs and Border Protection office in Washington, DC on November 15, 2022. © 2022 Kristine Jones...
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