Thailand: Emergency Decree Pretext for Crackdown
Click to expand Image Riot police march towards pro-democracy protesters near Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, October 15, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe (Bangkok) – The Thai...
View ArticleMarginalized Communities Will Pay Highest Price for Pulling Plug on US Census
Click to expand Image Census Drive and voter registration booths at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem, New York, September 22, 2020. © 2020 2020 Lev Radin/Sipa via AP Images The US Census Bureau will...
View ArticleCDC Director Doubles Down on Endangering Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testifies before Congress on the Coronavirus crisis, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in...
View ArticleNigeria: Crackdown on Police Brutality Protests
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, on October 15, 2020. © 2020 Sunday Alamba/AP Photo (Abuja) – Nigerian security forces have responded to...
View ArticleThailand: Water Cannon Used Against Peaceful Activists
Click to expand Image Pro-democracy demonstrators face water cannons during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, October 16, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe (Bangkok) – Thai police...
View ArticleJapan: Raise Rights on Trip to Vietnam, Indonesia
Click to expand Image Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence Wednesday, September 16, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. © Carl...
View ArticleMauritania: Free Activists Held on Blasphemy Charges
Click to expand Image (Beirut) – Mauritania’s government should drop charges of blasphemy and insulting Islam against eight political activists and release the five held in pretrial detention since...
View ArticleCameroon: Opposition Leaders, Supporters Detained
Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private (Nairobi) – Cameroonian security forces fired tear gas and water...
View ArticleCuba’s Government Targets Social Media Influencers
Click to expand Image Screenshot from a video showing Ruhama Fernández. © YouTube/Ruhama Fernández Cuba’s government has a well-documented history of harassing dissidents, journalists, and opposition...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Horrific Pretrial Detention System
Click to expand Image Illustration of a North Korean pre-trial detention and investigation facility (kuryujang) based on former detainees’ testimonies told to Human Rights Watch and the illustrator's...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia to Host Women’s Summit While Women Activists Sit Behind Bars
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...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Forced Anal Exams in Homosexuality Prosecutions
Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) (Colombo) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people to forced physical examinations since 2017 in...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Alleged Child Offenders Face Death Sentences
Click to expand Image Men hold placards bearing portraits of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution sparked demonstrations in 2016 by the country's minority Shia citizens...
View ArticleDR Congo: Wanted Warlord Preys on Civilians
(Goma) – Congolese authorities have not arrested a rebel commander wanted for multiple crimes under a June 2019 warrant even as his forces have continued to carry out summary killings, rapes and sexual...
View ArticleKiller Robots: Precedent for a Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image Following the lead of legal precedent, a new treaty on killer robots should ensure meaningful human control over the use of force and ban weapons operating without such control....
View ArticleWhen Will Iraq Start Protecting Journalists?
Click to expand Image The office of Dijlah TV station in Baghdad was badly damaged after it was torched by protesters on August 31, 2020. Photo circulated on social media. A well-known TV station in...
View ArticleA Domestic Violence Case Goes to Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court
Click to expand Image Cartoon about Domestic Violence by Tatiana Zelenskaya. © Open Line NGO Gulzhan Pasanova could spend 10 years in prison because in defending herself from her abusive husband, he...
View ArticleUS: Protect Peaceful Assemblies; Limit Use of Force
Click to expand Image Federal officers run after dispersing protesters in Portland, Oregon, July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Noah Berger City and state officials in the United States should review...
View ArticleTurkey: Justice for Rights Lawyer’s Killing
Click to expand Image Tahir Elçi, the president of Diyarbakir Bar Association and human rights lawyer, speaks to the media shortly before being shot dead in Diyarbakir, Turkey November 28, 2015 . ©...
View ArticleCanada: Climate Crisis Toll on First Nations’ Food Supply
Climate change is taking a growing toll on First Nations in Canada, depleting food sources and affecting health. Canada is contributing to the climate crisis, which acutely affects Indigenous peoples...
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