US: No Justice 6 Months Since New York Police Assault
(New York) – New York City authorities have yet to hold police accountable for the planned assault and mass arrest of peaceful protesters they carried out on June 4, 2020, in the predominantly Black...
View ArticleUS Heat Deaths Among Older People Rising
Click to expand Image Patrons get on an express bus set up by the city Phoenix, Arizona, to take people to a heat relief station inside the Phoenix Convention Center, May 29, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Human Rights Groups Under Pressure
Click to expand Image © 2020 AP Photo (London) – Kazakhstan tax authorities are targeting over a dozen human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in the country with fines and possible...
View ArticleEnd Abusive Sex Testing for Women Athletes
Women athletes, largely from the Global South, are targeted and harmed by “sex testing” regulations. Women being observed under the regulations, and in some cases being compelled to undergo a medical...
View ArticleIran: Adopt Draft Law to Protect Women
Click to expand Image Iranian women wearing masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus walk at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on February 20, 2020. © 2020 WANA/Nazanin Tabatabaee via Reuters...
View ArticleRenew EU Sanctions Against Congo Officials
Click to expand Image Police detain members of the youth movement Filimbi after a peaceful sit-in outside the African Union (AU) office in Kinshasa on October 29, 2016. © Private Carbone Beni did not...
View ArticleTajikistan: Dissident’s Family Interrogated, Threatened
Click to expand Image Fatkhuddin Saidmukhidinov © 2020 Private (Berlin) – Tajik authorities in late November 2020 summoned, interrogated, and threatened family members of Fatkhuddin Saidmukhidinov, a...
View ArticleHong Kong: Drop Cases Against Democracy Activists
Click to expand Image Joshua Wong, center right, and Ivan Lam, center left, were led into a prison van before their court appearance in Hong Kong on Wednesday. © 2020 Kin Cheung/Associated Press (New...
View ArticleFrance: Dissolving Anti-Discrimination Group Threatens Rights
Click to expand Image French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin delivers a speech on the state of terrorism threat at the French General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) in Paris, Monday Aug....
View ArticleUS: House Votes to End Marijuana Prohibition
Click to expand Image Supporters hold flags near the Capitol in Washington, DC, during a rally in favor of marijuana legalization on April 24, 2017. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon (Washington, DC) – The...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Scrap Bill Shielding North Korean Government
Click to expand Image People watch a news program showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South...
View ArticleCuba: Covid-19 Rules Used to Intensify Repression
Click to expand Image Artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Anamelys Ramos present a habeas corpus regarding detained musician Denis Solís, in Havana, on November 10, 2020. Otero Alcántara and Ramos...
View ArticleAfghan Children Need Full Access to Education
Click to expand Image Girls study in a tent held up by a tree in a government school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Forty-one percent of all schools in Afghanistan do not have buildings and even when they do,...
View ArticleBelarus Escalates Crackdown on Independent Journalism
Click to expand Image Young demonstrators during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, 6 December 2020. © 2020 The Associated Press On December...
View ArticleEgypt: World Bank Funds Health but Neglects Jailed Doctors
Click to expand Image A nurse helps a colleague put on personal protective equipment at the 6th of October Central Hospital, an isolation hospital for Covid-19 patients, in Giza, Egypt, in July 2020....
View ArticleGreece: Lead Poisoning Concerns in New Migrant Camp
Click to expand Image A girl from Syria living in Mavrovouni camp watches the Greek military search for unexploded munitions after she and thousands of other migrants had already moved to the site. ©...
View ArticleBurundi: UN Should Ensure Regular Rights Briefings
Click to expand Image The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Burundi on July 29, 2016 calling for the deployment of unarmed police officers to Burundi to support UN human rights...
View ArticleLighting Up Hope for Human Rights
Click to expand Image Niagara Falls shines blue for Human Rights Day. © Niagara Falls Illumination Board (New York) – Human Rights Watch has arranged for 10 landmarks to shine bright blue on December...
View ArticleUS Environmental Agency Greenlights Neurotoxic Pesticide
Click to expand Image A 12-year-old girl picks cucumbers on a Michigan farm. © 2009 ROMANO Last week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed interim decision that...
View ArticleNo Equality in Sport Until We Stop Policing Women’s Bodies
Click to expand Image Caster Semnya wins the women's 800m during the IAAF Doha Diamond League 2019 at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, May 3, 2019. © 2019 Jiro Mochizuki/Image of Sport...
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