Guinea: Post-Election Violence, Repression
(New York) – The post presidential-election period in Guinea has been marred with violence and repression, with at least 12 people dead, Human Rights Watch said today. Following the October 18, 2020...
View ArticleTurkey: Opposition Politicians Detained for Four Years
Click to expand Image Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been held in Edirne F-type Prison since November 4, 2016. © 2020 Private (Istanbul) –...
View ArticleLame Duck US Congress Should Pass Bill to Study Reparations for Slavery
Click to expand Image A young boy raises his fist during a demonstration in Atlanta, Georgia, May 31, 2020. © 2020 Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Before the 116th US Congress adjourns for the year, it...
View ArticleGreece Commits to End “Protective” Child Detention
Click to expand Image Unaccompanied children line up for an evening meal at a detention facility run by the Greek police. © 2015 Kelly Lynn Lunde In a huge victory for children’s rights, the Greek...
View ArticleThailand: Police Violence Against Democracy Demonstrators
Click to expand Image Democracy demonstrators take cover with inflatable ducks and umbrellas as police use water cannons during a protest rally near the parliament in Bangkok, November 17, 2020. ©...
View ArticleStill no Accountability for Hong Kong’s Police Force
Click to expand Image A protester is tackled by riot police during a demonstration outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, June 12, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Kin Cheung Among the gloomy news coming...
View ArticleUganda: Authorities Weaponize Covid-19 for Repression
Click to expand Image Musician and opposition candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine during a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, October 1, 2019. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images (Nairobi) – The arrest...
View ArticleMalaysia: End Abusive Immigration Detention
Click to expand Image Police officers detain an immigrant from an apartment under enhanced lockdown in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 1, 2020. © 2020 Reuters/Lim Huey Teng (Bangkok) – Malaysia should...
View ArticleCanada Needs to Deliver Promised Climate Accountability
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has tabled legislation that would increase transparency of government efforts to meet climate change commitments. Bill C-12, tabled November 19,...
View ArticleNepal: Stalling on Justice for Conflict-Era Crimes
Click to expand Image A Nepali man looks at photographs of disappeared persons displayed by human rights activists at an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared in Kathmandu, Nepal,...
View ArticleTop Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Beijing is destroying Hong Kong's universities with "shrinking space for dissent or even discussion”; Police escalate tensions in Thailand and used water cannons...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Bad Faith Efforts to Overhaul Constitution
Click to expand Image Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov delivers his speech during an official ceremony of transfer of the power at the Kyrgyzstan Parliament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday,...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Donors Should Support Rights Gains
Click to expand Image Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait at a UNICEF clinic in Jabal Saraj, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, August 26, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool...
View ArticleTanzania: Repression Mars National Elections
Click to expand Image A woman inks her finger after voting in Zanzibar, Tanzania, October 28, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo (Nairobi) – Authorities in Tanzania killed at least four people and carried out...
View ArticleMauritania: Revise Draft Associations Law
Click to expand Image (Beirut) – Mauritania’s parliament should revise a draft law on associations it is due to confirm during its current session to ensure that it meets international standards on...
View ArticleUN: Implement Human Rights Principles for Assistance in Syria
Click to expand Image An aid convoy drives through the city of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, in March 2018 when it was still held by anti-government armed groups. © 2018 Samer...
View ArticleSomalia: Ensure Justice in Health Worker Massacre
Click to expand Image An ambulance transports patients to a hospital from a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Feisal Omar (Nairobi) –...
View ArticleEgyptian Judiciary in Service of Repression
Click to expand Image Policemen and people walk in front of the main gate of Tora prison in Cairo on June 4, 2012. © 2012 Reuters Walid Shawky, a dentist and activist in Egypt, spent nearly two years...
View ArticleSingle Women in South Korea Have Rights to a Family Too
Click to expand Image Protesters celebrate after listening to a judgment during a rally demanding the abolition of abortion law outside of the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 11,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Release Students Jailed for Peaceful Protest
Click to expand Image (Bangkok) – The Myanmar authorities should immediately end criminal proceedings and release students and other activists charged for participating in recent peaceful protests, a...
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