Russia: Police Double Down on Detaining Protesters
Click to expand Image A policeman detains a man while protesters try to help him, during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 31,...
View ArticleUN: Countries Call Out Rwanda’s Rights Record
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Justice Under Attack
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at a campaign rally in Homagama, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 13, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena (Geneva) –...
View ArticleBiden Should Defend the Right to Call for a Boycott
Click to expand Image Outside the office of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, demonstrators protest against a law that bars the state from investing in companies that support boycotts of Israel,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Military Coup Kills Fragile Democracy
Click to expand Image Soldiers at a blockaded road to Myanmar’s parliament in Naypyidaw during the February 1, 2021 coup. © 2021 Reuters (New York) – Governments worldwide should together demand that...
View ArticleKiller Robots: Survey Shows Opposition Remains Strong
Click to expand Image Campaign to Stop Killer Robots press briefing at the United Nations in New York in October 2019. © 2019 Ari Beser (Washington, DC) – More than three in five people responding to...
View ArticleSyria: Covid-19 Vaccine Access Should Be Expanded, Fair
Click to expand Image A medic checks the temperature of a man inside a health isolation centre which has been established on the Syrian-Turkish borders in order to place people coming from Turkey to...
View ArticleIndian Authorities Lash Out at Protests
Click to expand Image People attend a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, January 29, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Manish Swarup The...
View ArticleIndia: Journalists Covering Farmer Protests Charged
Click to expand Image Farmers protest against three new farm laws in Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border, January 30, 2021. © 2021 Pradeep Gaur / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP...
View ArticleRussian Court Rules to Jail Navalny
Click to expand Image Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is pictured in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, February 2, 2021. © 2021 Moscow City Court via AP A Moscow court ruled today that...
View ArticleMyanmar Military Blocks Internet During Coup
Click to expand Image Myanmar Times newspaper with the headline 'State of Emergency' among other newspapers for sale are seen on display a day after the Myanmar's military detained the country's de...
View ArticleUS Takes Steps to Reverse Family Separations
Click to expand Image Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, right, watch as President Joe Biden signs an executive order on immigration in the Oval...
View ArticleIllegal Transfers of Syrians to Turkey
Click to expand Image Fighters of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (also called the Syrian National Army) enter the town of Tal Abyad. © 2019 AP Images (Beirut) – Turkey and the Syrian National...
View ArticleEnsuring Equitable Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution in South Africa
Click to expand Image Volunteers wait to be checked at a vaccine trial facility set at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, November 30, 2020. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleLebanon: No Justice 6 Months After Blast
Click to expand Image A slogan painted on a barrier in front of towering grain silos gutted in the massive August 2020 explosion at the Beirut port that claimed the lives of more than 200 people,...
View ArticleIs Your Business Funding Myanmar Military Abuses?
Click to expand Image A convoy of army vehicles patrol the streets in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. In the early hours of Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, the Myanmar army took over the civilian...
View Article‘Family’ in South Korea Should Include Same-Sex Couples
Click to expand Image A rainbow flag is carried during a parade as a part of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 14, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Lee Jin-man © 2018 AP...
View ArticleChina: Olympic Committee Fails to Honor Rights Pledge
Click to expand Image International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before proceeding to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in...
View ArticleDR Congo: Reopen Inquiry into Prominent Activist’s Murder
Click to expand Image A man wearing a T-shirt with portraits of Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana attends the trial in Kinshasa on April 30, 2013 of policemen accused of killing the two men in 2010....
View ArticleNigeria Finally Unfreezes Protesters’ Bank Accounts
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Nigeria’s Central Bank to unfreeze the bank accounts of twenty #EndSARS supporters, who had been protesting nationwide police brutality. The freeze on bank...
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