The UN Human Rights Council Should Address the Rapidly Growing Human Rights...
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleTurkey: Mass Detentions at Pride Marches
Click to expand Image In defiance of a ban on all Pride events in Istanbul and full police lockdown, demonstrators assembled in the backstreets of Nişantaşı neighborhood near Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Older People Lack Basic Care, Support
Click to expand Image Nozala Ndoyana, 84, in front of her home in Gwaba village, Eastern Cape, where she spends more than 12 hours a day alone when her daughter goes to work. © 2023 Taurai...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Attacks on Media, Free Expression
Click to expand Image A protester holds a sign saying “don’t scare everyone” during a rally for freedom of speech and freedom for political prisoners in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on November 25, 2022. ©...
View ArticleUN Chief’s ‘List of Shame’ Adds Russia, Omits Israel
Click to expand Image A three-story house that reportedly had 30 members of one Palestinian family destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza, May 13, 2023. © 2023 Momen...
View ArticleSyrians in Passport Limbo During Assad’s Victory Lap
Click to expand Image Syrians line up to apply for passports inside of the Embassy of Syria in Amman, Jordan, September 15, 2015. © 2015 Raad Adayleh/AP Photo Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has...
View ArticleVenezuela: ICC Investigation Gets Go-Ahead
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong (Bogotá) – The resumption of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
View ArticleSyrians in Passport Limbo During Assad’s Victory Lap
Click to expand Image Syrians line up to apply for passports inside of the Embassy of Syria in Amman, Jordan, September 15, 2015. © 2015 Raad Adayleh/AP Photo Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has...
View ArticleUS: Californians Once Facing Life without Parole Give Back
Click to expand Image Ruben R. was sentenced to life without parole for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old. Changes in law gave him the chance to go before the parole board, and he was...
View ArticleReport Finds US Government Failed Meatpacking Workers During Pandemic
Click to expand Image A mural on a slaughterhouse, Vernon, California, May 26, 2020. © 2020 David McNew/Getty Images The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent...
View ArticleMore than 70 Countries Pledge to Strengthen Right to Free Education
Click to expand Image Students attend class in Freetown, Sierra Leone, September 17, 2018. © 2018 Saidu Bah/AFP via Getty Images At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, more...
View ArticleAustralia Evacuates Last Refugee on Nauru
Click to expand Image Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru, September 3, 2018. © 2018 Jason Oxenham/AP Photo Over the weekend, the last refugee held on the island country of Nauru under the Australian...
View ArticlePhilippines: Marcos Failing on Rights
Click to expand Image Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at his first state of the nation address in Quezon City, Philippines, July 25, 2022. © 2022 Aaron Favila/AP Photo (New York) – President...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: Unlawful Killings, ‘Disappearances’ by the Army
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images The...
View ArticleIntercommunal Violence in Western Congo Kills Scores
Click to expand Image Bandundu’s Malebo market turned into a camp hosting displaced people despite a Congolese government attempt to close it. © 2022 Venance Kalenga/Human Rights Watch Gunmen...
View ArticleUS Ends Critical Investigation in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Click to expand Image Fossil fuel and petrochemical plants line the area known as 'Cancer Alley," near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 15, 2013. © 2013 Giles Clarke/Getty Images On Tuesday, the United...
View ArticleKilling of Family Sparks Inquiry in Philippines
Click to expand Image A demonstration at the inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Plaza Miranda, Manila, June 30, 2022. © 2022 Ryan Eduard Benaid/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP Images The killing of a...
View ArticleUkraine Promises Inquiry into Banned Landmine Use
Click to expand Image Members of a special demining unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine searching for landmines in Horenka, Kyiv oblast, May 27, 2022. © 2022 Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via...
View ArticleExtreme Heat Signals Need for Inclusive Climate Action
Click to expand Image Waris Ali, 45, from Tahirpur, Sunamganj, with his daughter and grandchildren in his house located adjacent to the river. His son, Royis Miah, 21, who had an intellectual and...
View ArticleEnding Japan’s ‘Hostage Justice’ System
Click to expand Image Photo taken at the “End ‘Hostage Justice’ in Japan Project” launch event in Osaka, Japan on June 30, 2023, organized by Human Rights Watch and Innocence Project Japan. © 2023...
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