Egypt: Data of Tens of Thousands of Students Compromised
Click to expand Image Egyptian high school students take their final exams in Cairo, Egypt, June 21, 2020. © 2020 Ziad Ahmed/NurPhoto via AP Images (Beirut) – The Egyptian government and a private...
View ArticleEU: Major Step For ‘Deforestation-Free’ Trade
Click to expand Image European lawmakers vote on climate change issues at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, September 13, 2022. © AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias (Berlin) –...
View ArticleBeirut Bar Association Seeks to Muzzle Lawyers
Click to expand Image Lebanese lawyer Nizar Saghieh, who heads of the local rights-based organization Legal Agenda. © Legal Agenda Prominent Lebanese lawyer Nizar Saghieh, who heads the local...
View ArticleUK Social Security Should Guarantee Adequate Living Standard
Click to expand Image A person holding a shopping basket in a supermarket, March 1, 2023. © 2023 Press Association/AP Images Faced with a cost-of-living crisis and a generational high in inflation,...
View ArticleUN: More Groups Address ‘Antisemitism’ Issue
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) – More than 100 human rights and...
View ArticleAustralia: Press Vietnam on Poor Rights Record
Click to expand Image Twelve Vietnamese rights activists and bloggers currently detained for exercising their basic rights. Top row from left to right: Le Van Dung, Le Manh Ha, Dinh Van Hai, Bui Van...
View ArticleBiden Administration Should End Federal Marijuana Prohibition
Click to expand Image A demonstrator waves a flag during a protest calling for the legalization of marijuana, outside of the White House on April 2, 2016, in Washington, DC, US. © 2016 Jose Luis...
View ArticleIran Court Issues Sentences in Downing of Ukraine Flight PS752
Click to expand Image Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 08, 2023 as Iranian-Canadians marked 3rd anniversary of the downing of...
View ArticleYemen: New Truce Would Require Accountability
Click to expand Image Yemeni men inspect a destroyed house that was allegedly targeted by Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 8, 2018. © 2018 Hani Al-Ansi/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images...
View ArticleMarriage Equality Could Bring Women Autonomy and Safety
Click to expand Image "Women & Trans-persons’ March for Peace & Diversity" in Kolkata, India, April 4, 2019. © 2019 Avishek Das/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP Images A coalition of queer feminist...
View ArticlePeru Ruling a Victory for LGBT Equality
Click to expand Image Inter-American Court of Human Rights judges in a hearing in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 22, 2023. © 2023 Mayela Lopez/Reuters In a landmark unanimous ruling published last week,...
View ArticleFrance Ratifies Treaty to End Violence and Harassment at Work
Click to expand Image Protestors marching to demand the end of femicide and violence against women in Paris, France, November 23, 2019. © 2019 Christian Hartmann/Reuters In a long overdue step,...
View ArticlePlantations, Ranches Are Devouring World’s Forests
Click to expand Image An aerial view shows cattle on a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 14, 2020. © 2020 Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters This Earth Day, it's...
View ArticleCambodia: Renewed Attacks on Political Opposition
Click to expand Image Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen gives a speech in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Thursday, January 30, 2020. © Heng Sinith/AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Cambodian government has stepped up...
View ArticleWhite House Issues Significant Environmental Justice Order for Earth Day
Click to expand Image On Earth Day, marchers at the White House hold a banner reading, “End the Era of Fossil Fuels.” Washington, DC, US, April 22, 2023. © 2023 Antonia Juhasz When Tish Taylor saw...
View ArticleIran: Security Forces Kill, Torture, Abuse Children
Click to expand Image A memorial to children killed in Iran outside of UNICEF’s office in Washington, DC, November 30, 2022. © 2022 Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP (Beirut) – Iran’s security...
View ArticleSudan Conflict and International Law
Click to expand Image Residential buildings damaged in fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, April 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Marwan Ali (Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch released a question and answer document...
View ArticlePakistan’s Sindh Province Backs Transgender Rights
Click to expand Image The Aurat March to end gender-based violence against women and transgender and non-binary people on International Women's Day, March 8, 2021 in Karachi, Pakistan. © 2021 Betsy...
View ArticleMexico’s Congress Should Ban Discriminatory Immigration Checks
Click to expand Image A Mexican Marine orders a group of migrants from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan off a bus at an immigration checkpoint outside the town of Viva Mexico, near Tapachula, in Chiapas...
View ArticleRights Groups Launch Community Safety Agenda for the US
Click to expand Image Hundreds march from Nubian Square to City Hall to urge Boston City Council to reallocate Boston police funding to youth jobs programs in Boston Public Schools in Boston,...
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