Shackled in Ghana for Mental Health Conditions
Click to expand Image A woman with a real or perceived psychosocial disability is chained in a room at Mount Horeb Prayer Camp in Mamfi, Ghana. The black bucket is where she defecates and urinates,...
View ArticleUS Congress Protects Right to Marry
Click to expand Image Senators Rob Portman, Tammy Baldwin, Susan Collins, and Kyrsten Sinema, talk with reporters following Senate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act at the Capitol in Washington,...
View ArticleEU Should Stop Illegal Migrant Pushbacks at its Borders
Click to expand Image Migrants show broken phones in the village of Horgos, Serbia, January 28, 2020. © 2020 Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo A new report, including disturbing video and audio evidence, shows...
View ArticleNo Justice for Victims of Forced Disappearances in Uganda
Click to expand Image President Yowerei Museveni speaks during a news conference in Entebbe, Uganda, July 26, 2022. © 2022 Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo In recent weeks, Ugandan media has been awash once...
View ArticleQatar and FIFA’s Callous Response to a Migrant Worker’s Death
Click to expand Image The chief executive of Qatar 2022, Nasser Al Khater, at the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 news conference in Doha, Qatar, October...
View ArticlePoland: Veto Bill Targeting Sex Ed
Click to expand Image People attend 'Stop Lex Czarnek' protest at the Main Square in Krakow, Poland on February 15, 2022. ©2022 Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP. (London) – President Andrzej Duda of...
View ArticleRussia: Harsh Sentence For Opposition Politician
Click to expand Image Ilya Yashin waves to supporters in a Moscow courtroom during a hearing on abusive charges against him of spreading "false information" about Russian forces. Moscow, Russia,...
View ArticleBiden Should Stop Using Trump’s Playbook at the Border
Click to expand Image Venezuelan migrants stand near the Paso del Norte International Bridge, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico October 21, 2022. © 2022 Jose Luis Gonzalez/REUTERS President Donald Trump left...
View ArticleHuman Rights Press Awards in Asia Relaunches for 2023
Click to expand Image Workers pile Apple Daily newspapers at the printing factory in Hong Kong, June 17, 2021. © 2021 Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images via AP Images (Bangkok) – Human Rights Watch and...
View ArticleBangladesh’s Brutal Crackdown on Political Opposition
Click to expand Image Police set up a roadblock near the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party's central office in Dhaka, December 8, 2022. © 2022 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Photo Early in her...
View ArticleNew York City Overdose Prevention Centers Give Hope
Last week marked one year since New York became the first city in the United States to open overdose prevention centers (OPCs), which have prevented more than 600 fatal drug overdoses since opening....
View ArticleEU: Frontex Complicit in Abuse in Libya
Click to expand Image Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat Ras Jadir intercepts a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea, July 30, 2021. © 2021 David Lohmüller/Sea-Watch (Brussels) – The use by the EU’s...
View ArticleLebanon: Rising Poverty, Hunger Amid Economic Crisis
Click to expand Image People wait in line at a bakery in Beirut, Lebanon, July 2022. © 2022 Hussam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – The majority of people in Lebanon are unable to...
View ArticleFIFA Misleading World on Remedy for Migrant Workers
Click to expand Image Laborers remove scaffolding at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Monday, April 29, 2019. © AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili (Geneva) – FIFA is still failing to fulfill its human...
View ArticleTajikistan: Long Sentences for Autonomous Region Activists
Click to expand Image The Tajikistan flag. © 2022 Maksim Konstantinov, Sipa via AP Images (Berlin, December 13, 2022) – Six civil society activists from the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region in...
View ArticleIran: Death Sentences Against Protesters
(Beirut) – Iranian authorities’ execution of two men in connection with widespread antigovernment protests is a gross miscarriage of justice and a dangerous escalation, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleSudan: Pact Omits Key Justice Reforms
Click to expand Image Sudanese demonstrators march in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022 to protest a deal signed between the country’s main pro-democracy group and its ruling generals. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleUkraine: Apparent Cluster Munitions Hit Kherson
Click to expand Image The fragmentation pattern left by an apparent cluster munition impact during an attack on a populated neighborhood in Kherson city on November 21 that wounded three civilians,...
View ArticleHong Kong: Media Tycoon Trial a Travesty
Click to expand Image In this December 12, 2020 photo, Jimmy Lai, who founded the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, is escorted by Correctional Services officers to a prison van before appearing in...
View ArticleReports Allege Nigerian Army Abuses
Click to expand Image Nigerian military ride on their truck as they secure the area around the Polo area of Maiduguri, Nigeria February 16, 2019. © 2019 Afolabi Sotunde/REUTERS Two Reuters reports...
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