Kyrgyzstan: Respect Rights While Restoring Order
Click to expand Image Protesters gathered on Ala Too Square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital on October 6, 2020, two days after a disputed parliamentary election. © 2020 Caroline Eden (Berlin) – Law...
View Article39 Countries at UN Express ‘Grave Concerns’ About China’s Abuses
Click to expand Image Chinese police patrol a night market near Id Kah Mosque in Xinjiang, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, June 25, 2017. © 2017 AFP/Getty Images A cross-regional group of 39...
View ArticleAnti-LGBT Persecution in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
(Washington, DC) – The governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have failed to effectively address violence and entrenched discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
View ArticleFinally, Good News for Asylum Seekers in Italy
Click to expand Image Italians and asylum seekers from the local specialized reception center work together to clear debris after floods in Belluno, Italy, November 2018. © 2018 SIPROIMI It pledged...
View ArticleJustice Delivered in Greece
Click to expand Image Magda Fyssa, the mother of late Greek rap singer Pavlos Fyssas, who was stabbed and killed by a supporter of the extreme right Golden Dawn party in 2013, celebrates immediately...
View ArticleUN: Deny Rights Council Seats to Major Violators
Click to expand Image A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, October 1, 2018. © AP Photo/Richard Drew A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Mass Detention of Rohingya in Squalid Camps
Click to expand Image A Myanmar police officer patrols the Thet Kae Pyin camp in Sittwe township where Rohingya Muslims have been confined since 2012, Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 7, 2016. © 2016...
View ArticleHuman Rights on the Ballot in California
Click to expand Image A mail-in ballot from the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder for the November 3 election, September 5, 2020. © 2020 Ted Soqui/Sipa via AP Images Early voting has begun in...
View ArticleNicaragua: Ortega Tightening Authoritarian Grip
Click to expand Image Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks next to first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo during the inauguration ceremony for a highway overpass in Managua, Nicaragua,...
View ArticleBelarus Uses Children to Pressure Dissenting Parents
Click to expand Image Women stand in front of a police officer during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, September 19, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleJonathan Price’s Killing Underscores Need for US Structural Police Reform
Click to expand Image Jonathan Price © Will Middlebrooks/GoFundMe The call that came into the Wolfe City Police Department just after 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 3, wasn’t particularly notable in the...
View ArticleArgentina: Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online
Click to expand Image Commuters walk through an overcrowded subway station during local rush hour on March 13, 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. © 2020 Lalo Yasky/Getty Images (New York) – Argentina’s...
View ArticleAlgeria: Migrants, Asylum Seekers Forced Out
Click to expand Image Migrants of several nationalities, part of a group of 270 people, arrive from Algeria to Assamaka, Niger, on September 30, 2020. © 2020 IOM Niger (Beirut) – Algerian authorities...
View ArticleBangladesh: Protests Erupt Over Rape Case
Click to expand Image Students protest against an alleged gang-rape and brutal torture of a woman in the southern district of Noakhali, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 8, 2020. © 2020 Rehman...
View ArticleBuilding Equitable Futures by Investing in Girls
Click to expand Image Feminist students strike against sexist violence in Madrid, Spain, March 6, 2020. © 2020 Alberto Sibaja/Pacific Press/Sipa via AP Images In advance of this International Day of...
View ArticleChild Marriage, Pregnancies Soar During Pandemic
Click to expand Image Belkis, 15 years old, holds her one-year-old son in the house where she lives with her mother, two sisters, and one brother. Belkis was married when she was 13 years old to a man...
View ArticleTurkey: Turkmen Activist Faces Deportation
Click to expand Image Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, left, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Ankara, Turkey, February 29, 2012. © 2012 AP Photo/Umit...
View ArticleProlonged Political Crisis in Kyrgyzstan Puts Rights at Risk
Click to expand Image Protesters gathered on Ala Too Square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital on October 6, 2020, two days after a disputed parliamentary election. © 2020 Caroline Eden It has been a...
View ArticleProsecution of Former MP Casts Doubt on Reform in Burundi
Hopes that a new president may reverse a repressive course in Burundi seem increasingly misplaced. Click to expand Image Fabien Banciryanino. © Private The Burundian judicial authorities’ decision to...
View ArticleFresh Calls to End Afghanistan’s ‘Virginity Exams’
Imagine being arrested and taken by police to a doctor who examines your vagina and anus –without your consent. Now imagine you are sent for several of these exams, sometimes with other people...
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