The Epitome of Impunity in Central African Republic
Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba addresses residents of Ngakobo while on a ministerial trip in the Ouaka province in Central African Republic, January 23, 2023. © 2023 Government of the Central...
View ArticleMyanmar: 2 Years Since Coup, Worsening Repression
Click to expand Image Protesters hold a banner reading “We will never be frightened,” in Yangon, Myanmar, in response to the junta’s execution of four political prisoners on July 25, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleUS Congress Helps Boost Justice in Ukraine
Click to expand Image A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images Following a visit to the United States by Ukrainian President...
View ArticleUzbekistan: 16-Year Sentence in Autonomous Region Protests
Click to expand Image Lolagul Kallykhanova, one of 22 defendants on trial in connection with July protests in Karakalpakstan, stands at the sentencing hearing at court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on...
View Article‘Cruel’ Death in Australia Shows Need for Bail Reform
Click to expand Image Donna Nelson, the mother of Veronica Marie Nelson, speaks to the media outside the Coroners Court on January 30, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. © 2023 Tamati Smith/Getty Images...
View ArticleItaly Reups Funding to Force Migrants Back to Libya
Click to expand Image Migrants who were intercepted by Libyan authorities on a boat off the coast are held ahead of their transfer to a detention centre in Surman, Libya on May 12, 2022. © 2022 Mahmud...
View ArticleSouth Korea Cancels Plans to Update Definition of Rape
Click to expand Image Union members at an International Women’s Day event in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2018. © 2018 Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto via Getty Images Last week South Korea’s Ministry of Gender...
View ArticleNepal’s Social Protection System Reinforces Inequality
A fruit seller near Patan Mangal Bazar says the high and unreliable food prices affect his business, with fewer people purchasing mangos and apples. “10 people ask the price, 2 buy.”© 2022 Human...
View ArticleIsrael: Collective Punishment against Palestinians
Click to expand Image Israeli forces enter the East Jerusalem home of Khayri Alqam, who killed seven civilians in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov on January 27, 2023, to seal and eventually...
View ArticleBurundi: Journalist’s Conviction Violates Free Speech Rights
Click to expand Image Floriane Irangabiye © Private. The conviction of the Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye on charges of “undermining the integrity of the national territory” on January 2,...
View ArticleCharge with 10-Year Sentence Reinstated Against Kazakhstan Opposition Figure
Click to expand Image Kazakh opposition politician Zhanbolat Mamai speaks during an interview in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 28, 2022. © 2022 Pavel Mikheyev/REUTERS As Kazakhstan gears up for...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Rights Abuses Overshadow Pope’s Visit
Click to expand Image South Sudan President Salva Kiir meets Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican on March 16, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino (Nairobi) – Pope Francis’...
View ArticleAllegations of Bangladesh Police Torture, Illegal Detentions
Click to expand Image Police confront Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists gathered in front of the party's central office in Dhaka on December 7, 2022. © 2022 Rehman Asad/Getty Images...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch to Open Jordan Regional Office
Click to expand Image © 2022 Human Rights Watch (Amman) – Human Rights Watch will open a regional office in Amman, Jordan, in February 2023, in a move to intensify its advocacy on key human rights...
View ArticleDR Congo: Atrocities by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
Click to expand Image People displaced by fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese government forces gather north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 25, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleNigeria: Impunity, Insecurity Threaten Elections
Click to expand Image Women cast their ballots as they vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections on February 23, 2019, at a polling station in Daura, Katsina State, northwest Nigeria. ©...
View ArticleUN Message to Ghana on Mental Health Care
Click to expand Image Two men with a real or perceived mental health condition held by a chain around their ankle at Mount Horeb Prayer Centre in the Eastern Region in Ghana. © 2022 Shantha Rau...
View ArticleHouthis Violating Women’s and Girls' Rights in Yemen
Click to expand Image A Yemeni woman shops at a market in Yemen's third city of Taiz, on December 15, 2022. © 2022 Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images Several United Nations human rights experts...
View ArticlePakistan: IMF Bailout Should Advance Economic Rights
Click to expand Image A produce vendor waits for customers at a market in Islamabad, Pakistan, on January 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File. (New York) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
View ArticleAfghan Professor Jailed After Protesting Restrictions on Women
Click to expand Image Ismail Mashal, a journalism professor, speaks during an interview with AFP in Kabul on December 30, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images February 2 marked 500 days since the Taliban...
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