Fighting Devastates Sudan’s West Darfur
Click to expand Image People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, after fighting between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces, April 29, 2023. ©...
View ArticleTop Russian Activist Indicted
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov and his lawyer, Ekaterina Tertukhina, at the prosecutor’s office in Moscow when they received his indictment. © 2023 Memorial Last weekend, Russian authorities moved...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Apparent War Crimes in Border Conflict
Click to expand Image Forces from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan killed and injured civilians in apparent war crimes during their brief but intense armed border conflict in September 2022. The...
View ArticleDR Congo: Reject Discriminatory Nationality Bill
Click to expand Image The People's Palace in Kinshasa, DRC, which houses the Congolese Parliament. © 2011 Grazyna Bonati/Alamy Stock Photo (Kinshasa) – The Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament...
View ArticleNepal: Court Orders Recognition of Same-Sex Spouse
Click to expand Image LGBTQIA activists and supporters take part in a pride parade demanding equal legal rights and marking the month of June as a pride month in Kathmandu, Nepal, June 11, 2022. ©...
View ArticleCroatia: Ongoing, Violent Border Pushbacks
Click to expand Image A man and his daughter who said Croatian police had pushed them back to Bosnia and Herzegovina 11 times carry a 10-month-old baby in her stroller through the forest near the...
View ArticleEgypt: Detained Academic at Risk of Death
Click to expand Image Salah Soltan © Private 2021 (Beirut) – The Egyptian authorities should immediately release Salah Soltan, the arbitrarily detained father of a prominent US human rights defender,...
View ArticleUK: Rights Action Needed for Gulf Trade Pact
Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The United Kingdom should not finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries until the agreement...
View ArticleMaldives Press Freedom in Danger
Click to expand Image Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City,US, September 21, 2021. © 2021 Eduardo Munoz/Reuters The space for freedom of the...
View ArticleLaos: Activist Gunned Down in Vientiane
Click to expand Image Prominent Lao political activist Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom was fatally shot in Vientiane, Laos on April 29, 2023. © Private (New York) – The Lao government should immediately and...
View ArticleBangladesh: End Crackdown Against Journalists and Critics
Click to expand Image Students protest and call for the release of Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams after a case was filed against him under the Digital Security Act, Dhaka, Bangladesh, March...
View ArticleUS: School Censorship Violates Basic Human Rights
Efforts by US states to ban school curricula offering historically accurate accounts of racism in the United States are attacks on fundamental human rights, Human Rights Watch said today on the May 3,...
View ArticleIraq Gas Flaring Tied to Cancer Surge
Click to expand Image Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq, September 16, 2019. © 2019 Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters Ali Hussein Jaloud, an Iraqi man barely in...
View ArticleHuman Rights Press Awards Announce 2023 Winners
(Bangkok) – Reporting on the fifth wave of Covid that engulfed Hong Kong, the Myanmar military’s abuses against the Rohingya, and human trafficking of African students by Taiwanese universities are...
View ArticleChina: Phone Search Program Tramples Uyghur Rights
Click to expand Image A Chinese security officer watches a woman pass through a checkpoint, equipped with a metal detector and facial recognition technology, to enter the main bazaar in Urumqi in the...
View ArticleSudan: Explosive Weapons Harming Civilians
Click to expand Image A house hit during fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, April 25, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Marwan Ali (Nairobi, May 4, 2023) – The two warring armed forces in Sudan have repeatedly used...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: Army Linked to Massacre of 156 Civilians
Click to expand Image An animal pen burned by apparent Burkinabé soldiers on April 20, 2023 in the village of Karma, Yatenga province in northern Burkina Faso, April 27, 2023. © 2023 Private Burkina...
View ArticleBurundi Court Upholds Journalist’s Conviction
Click to expand Image Floriane Irangabiye © Private. Last week, civil society in Burundi breathed a collective sigh of relief at the announcement that five human rights defenders charged with state...
View ArticleRussia: Law Targets International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko...
View ArticleGreece Stuck at Bottom of EU on Press Freedom
Click to expand Image Newspapers on a kiosk at Omonoia square in Athens, Greece on October 19, 2022. © 2022 Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via AP Images For the second year in a row, Greece came last among...
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