EU Member States Should Act on Philippines Abuses
Click to expand Image Veiled protesters, mostly relatives of victims of alleged extra-judicial killings, display placards during a protest outside the Philippine military and police camps in Quezon...
View ArticleNigeria’s Rising Number of Missing Persons
Click to expand Image Family members of the kidnapped Nigerian Chibok girls, Nigeria, October 18, 2016. © 2016 AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga Hundreds of people are missing from a town in northeast Nigeria...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Reviews Child Death Penalty Cases
Click to expand Image Ali al-Nimr is one of at least three Saudi men currently on death row for protest-related crimes committed when they were children. © 2011 Eshaparvathi/Creative Commons On August...
View ArticleArgentina: Legalize Abortion
(Washington, DC) – The life and health of anyone who is pregnant in Argentina will be at risk as long as access to abortion and post-abortion care remains heavily restricted, Human Rights Watch said in...
View ArticleMyanmar: End Harassment of Rakhine Media Outlets
Click to expand Image A screenshot of chief editor of Development Media Group (DMG), Aung Marm Oo. © 2015 Aung Marm Oo/Facebook (Bangkok) – Myanmar authorities should stop using criminal laws, website...
View ArticleLebanon Should Stop Excluding Children from School
Click to expand Image A classroom sits empty at a school in Loueizeh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Hussein Malla As another school year is about to begin in Lebanon, the...
View ArticleSyria: Health Workers Lack Protection in Pandemic
Click to expand Image A health worker with a face mask walks inside a hospital, as hospitals enforce a series of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Damascus,...
View ArticleCities Forcibly Evict Residents in South Africa
Click to expand Image A South Africa soldier guards the entrance of a housing development while flats are being emptied in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Aug. 12, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Jerome...
View ArticleNepal: Punish Rights Abusers; Protect Independent NHRC
Click to expand Image Nepalese police disperse protestors in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 28, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha (New York) – The Nepal government should act on the National Human...
View ArticleTanzania: Freedoms Threatened Ahead of Elections
Click to expand Image A man reads Tanzania’s major English-daily newspaper The Citizen in Arusha, Tanzania. The cover story refers to Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda storming the...
View ArticleSchoolchildren in England Should Not Go Hungry Again
Click to expand Image Students wash their hands as they arrive on the first day back to school at Charles Dickens Primary School in London, England, September 1, 2020. © 2020 Press Association via AP...
View ArticleUS Sanctions International Criminal Court Prosecutor
Click to expand Image Illustration of the scales of justice replaced by two people shackled by their wrists and dangling in the air. © 2015 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – The...
View ArticleIt’s Too Early to End Burundi Inquiry
Click to expand Image Doudou Diene, President of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, speaks at a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland,...
View ArticleHungary Continues Attacks on Academic Freedom
Click to expand Image Students barricading themselves at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, displaying banners reading, “We stand up for the freedom of our university” and “We won’t stay...
View ArticleOpposition Leader Convicted in Azerbaijan
Click to expand Image Tofig Yagublu holds a sign calling for freedom at an unsanctioned opposition protest, November 3, 2017. © 2017 Aziz Karimov In another mockery of justice, a court in Azerbaijan...
View ArticleEgypt: Man Dies in Unjust Detention
Click to expand Image Ahmed Abdelnabi Mahmoud and Raia Abdallah at their home in Dallas, Texas. © 2020 Facebook/The Free Raia and Ahmed Campaign Page (Beirut) – A 64-year-old Egyptian man whose...
View ArticleChina: Mongolian Mother-Tongue Classes Curtailed
Click to expand Image Chinese paramilitary police wear face masks in Beijing, May 1, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo (New York) – The Chinese government should reverse its new policy of increasingly replacing...
View ArticleIndia: Stop Using Pellet-Firing Shotguns in Kashmir
Click to expand Image An Indian police officer aims a shotgun at Kashmiri protesters throwing stones, in Srinagar, India, May 8, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan (New York) – The Indian authorities...
View ArticlePhilippines Soldiers Accused of Beating Indigenous People
Click to expand Image Filipino army troopers patrol a street in the Philippines in the early morning, March 15, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Aaron Favila Soldiers in the Philippines allegedly detained and...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Prominent Detainees Held Incommunicado
Click to expand Image Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul had been on hunger strike for six days before Saudi authorities finally allowed her parents to visit on August 31, according...
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