Swiss 'Senior Women' Take Government to Court over Climate Change
Click to expand Image A group from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association hold banners outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France March 29, 2023. © 2023 Emma...
View ArticleUN Paints Bleak Picture of Rights in Sri Lanka
Click to expand Image Women hold portraits of family members who went missing during Sri Lanka’s civil war that ended in 2009, during a demonstration in Colombo, December 5, 2022. © 2022 Ishara S....
View ArticleKosovo: War Crimes Trial to Begin in The Hague
Click to expand Image Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on November 9, 2020. © 2020 JERRY LAMPEN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (The Hague) – The trial of the...
View ArticleSex Testing Rules Harm Women Athletes
(New York) – Women track and field athletes will be subjected to tight surveillance based on gender stereotypes under a new set of global regulations, the latest in a series of arbitrary and...
View ArticleRape Survivor Testifies Publicly in Guinea Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Fatoumata Barry testifying at the trial for the September 28, 2009 Stadium Massacre in Conakry, Guinea on March 15, 2023. © 2023 Abdoulaye Bella Diallo “I prefer to come in...
View ArticleBangladesh: Halt ‘Pilot’ Plan to Return Rohingya
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees shout slogans against repatriation at Unchiprang camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 15, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Dar Yasin (Bangkok) – Bangladesh...
View ArticleGuatemala: End Arbitrary Exclusion of Candidates
Click to expand Image Supporters of the Liberation of the People (MLP) political party protest that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal denied the candidacy of their vice president hopeful Jordan Rodas in...
View ArticleThailand: Don’t Return Chinese Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, also known as the Mayflower Church, leave from the Nongprue police station on their way to Pattaya Provincial Court in Pattaya,...
View ArticleBrazil: Online Learning Tools Harvest Children’s Data
Click to expand Image © Andrea Devia Nuño, Hero Studios Educational websites directed at Brazilian students, including two created by state education secretariats, surveilled children and harvested...
View ArticleLibya: Revoke Repressive Anti-Cybercrime Law
Click to expand Image Map of Libya © Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The Libyan House of Representatives should repeal a 2022 Anti-Cybercrime Law that restricts freedoms of speech, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleAustralia Should Raise Abuses During Vietnam Visit
Click to expand Image Vietnamese political detainees and prisoners, from upper left: Do Nam Trung, Can Thi Theu and Trinh Ba Tu, Le Trong Hung, Trinh Ba Phuong; lower left: Nguyen Thi Tam, Pham Doan...
View ArticleA Path Toward Judicial Independence in Lebanon
Click to expand Image Families of Port Blast's victims show portraits of their beloved ones near the Palace of Justice in Beirut, November 25, 2021. Relatives of victims call for an independent...
View ArticleTragedy at a Mexican Immigration Detention Center
Click to expand Image An altar with candles and photos covers the fence outside the Mexican immigration detention center that was the site of a deadly fire in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Photo taken on...
View ArticleLack of Accountability Risks Philippines’ EU Trade Perks
Click to expand Image Activists light candles in front of the picture of 17-year-old student Kian delos Santos in Caloocan City, Philippines on November 29, 2018. Delos Santos' 2017 killing resulted...
View ArticleUN: Protect Human Rights in Action on Antisemitism
Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images (New York) – The United Nations should...
View ArticleBurkina Faso Expels Two French Reporters
Click to expand Image A television shows the cut signal of the France 24 channel, hours after Burkina Faso’s military government suspended the channel on March 27, 2023. © 2023 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Closing Civic Space
Click to expand Image Selection of Central African Republic newspapers, Bangui, January 2023 © 2023 Lewis Mudge/Human Rights Watch The government of the Central African Republic is cracking down on...
View ArticleBetter Solutions Needed for Migrant Workers’ Makeshift Settlements in Italy
Click to expand Image “Informal settlement “La Pista” in Borgo Mezzanone, Puglia region, Italy, July 1, 2020. © 2020 Giorgia Orlandi, @giorgiaorlandi_ Tonight, thousands of migrant agricultural...
View ArticleNew ICC Vetting Process Begins for Judicial Candidates
Click to expand Image Judges of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Sem van der Wal/AP Images Next December, member countries...
View ArticleTajikistan: Free Autonomous Region Rights Defender
(Berlin) – Tajik authorities should release Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov, a human rights defender and lawyer from the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan unfairly convicted in connection with...
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