Tanzanian Activist Still Jailed One Year On
Click to expand Image Tito Magoti and Theodory Giyani attend a court hearing in Dar es Salaam on December 24, 2019. © 2019 Sipa Michael Mallya This Sunday marks one year since police in Dar es Salaam...
View ArticleItaly: Flawed Migrant Regularization Program
Click to expand Image An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020. © Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan) –...
View ArticleUS: Protect Cameroonians From Deportation
Click to expand Image A patrol of Cameroonian gendarmes during a political rally in the Omar Bongo Square, Buea, capital of the South-West region, on October 3, 2018. © 2018 Marco Longari/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleNew York: Inquiry Confirms Police Misconduct at Protests
(New York) – The recommendations by New York City’s oversight agency for changes in police department operations in a December 18, 2020 report appear to fall far short of the reforms needed, Human...
View ArticleTurkey: YouTube Precedent Threatens Free Expression
Click to expand Image YouTube announced on December 16, 2020 that it will appoint a local representative in Turkey to comply with the country’s recently amended internet law. © 2020 StockSnap on...
View ArticleSudan: Security Forces Kill Protesters in Eastern Sudan
Click to expand Image Still image from a video obtained by Human Rights Watch shows three military vehicles, identified by witnesses as belonging to the RSF near Kassala Teaching Hospital, on October...
View ArticleIn a Pandemic Year, Some Good News for Children
Click to expand Image Students sing the national anthem before class at a secondary school in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, November 20, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Leo Correa This year has been...
View ArticleRwanda Should Stop Locking Up the Poor
Click to expand Image Gikondo Transit Center, April 2015. © 2015 Human Rights Watch. The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has held that states’ laws enabling the detention of people who,...
View ArticleVenezuela: Humanitarian Groups Under Attack
Click to expand Image Children eat lunch at Madre Asunción's community kitchen, which is ran by the NGO Alimenta La Solidaridad, on October 9, 2019 in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. © Leonardo Fernández...
View ArticleQatar: Wage Abuse Action Shortchanges Workers
Click to expand Image Former and current employees of Imperial Trading and Construction Company (ITCC) protest months of delayed and unpaid wages outside the company's headquarters in Qatar. © 2020...
View ArticleUganda: Northern Village May Be Disenfranchised
Click to expand Image Ugandans continue to queue to cast their votes at sunset in the capital Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. © (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (Nairobi, December 22, 2020) –Thousands...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Revise Intelligence Act Amendments
Click to expand Image South Korean President Moon Jae-in, bottom, speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, October 28, 2020. © 2020 Jeon Heon-kyun/Pool Photo via AP (Seoul) – The South...
View ArticleKazakhstan’s Domestic Violence Survivors Push for Legal Protections
Click to expand Image Participants protest against discrimination and gender-based violence during a rally held by members of feminist organizations and social activists in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
View ArticleNicaragua: Law Threatens Free, Fair Elections
Click to expand Image Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega greets soldiers during the oath of the Commander in Chief of the Nicaraguan army General Julio Cesar, at the Revolution square in Managua,...
View ArticleChina: Repression Threatens Winter Olympics
Click to expand Image Photo of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games logo in Zhangjiakou City where the 2022 Winter Olympic Games will take place, September 17, 2020, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei...
View ArticleTurkey: Release Unlawfully Jailed Opposition Politician
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 ArticleKyrgyzstan: Increased Interference in Trade Union Activities
Click to expand Image A protester listens to a speaker during a rally in front of the government building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, October 14, 2020. © 2020 Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Personal Drivers Face Abuse
Click to expand Image Foreign laborers work on the construction of new luxury houses in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, April 2019. © 2019 FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Saudi Arabia...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Rebel Violence Threatens Elections
Click to expand Image Presidential guards stand guard in Bangui, on December 12, 2020, during the opening campaign rally for incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra, seen in the poster, a...
View ArticleRussian Court Sentences Opposition Figure to 2-Year Suspended Sentence
Click to expand Image Yuliya Galyamina holding placard “Down with the Tsar”, July 2020, Moscow © 2020 Private A Moscow court sentenced Yuliya Galyamina, a member of Moscow’s municipal assembly, to a...
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