Covid-19 Forced Cremations Continue in Sri Lanka
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan municipal cemetery workers carry the coffin of a Covid-19 virus victim for cremation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 21, 2020. © 2020 Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via...
View ArticleGreece: Government Downplays Lead Risk at Migrant Camp
Click to expand Image The area on the hill from where authorities are removing soil, seen on January 25, 2021. Dozens of tents can be seen still present on the former firing range. © 2021...
View Article25th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, UK Digital Edition
(London) – The 2021 Human Rights Watch Film Festival celebrates 25 years with a full digital edition available to stream across the UK, in partnership with Barbican Cinema and generously supported by...
View ArticleCongress to Probe Covid-19 Impacts on US Meatpacking Workers
Click to expand Image Workers line up to enter the Tyson Foods port processing plant in Logansport, Indiana, May 7, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Michael Conroy This month, the United States House of...
View ArticleBelarus: Crackdown Escalates
Click to expand Image Police in Minsk carry documents and computers out of the office of the Belarusian Association of Journalists on February 16, 2021, as Andrei Bastunets, the head of the...
View ArticleGaza Authorities Issue Travel Restrictions for Unmarried Women
Click to expand Image Women hold signs during a protest against the decision by Gaza's Supreme Judicial Council banning women from movement in and out of the Gaza Strip without the permission of her...
View Article#FreeBritney Shines a Light on Problematic Guardianship Systems
Click to expand Image Britney Spears supporters pose for a photo outside a court hearing concerning the pop singer's conservatorship at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, February 11, 2021. ©...
View ArticleMore Schoolchildren Abducted in Nigeria
Click to expand Image Freed schoolboys look on during a meeting with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, December 18, 2020, in Katsina, Nigeria, days after an armed group attacked their school and...
View ArticleHuman Rights Body Calls for Repeal of Jamaica’s Anti-LGBT Laws
Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today made public a decision calling on Jamaica to repeal laws...
View ArticleTroubling Raid on Philippine Indigenous School
Click to expand Image Arrested teachers and adult Indigenous students confer with their lawyer while detained in a Cebu City jail. © Save Our Schools Network On Monday, police in the central...
View ArticleFree Speech Under Threat in Uzbekistan
Click to expand Image Oliy Majlis, the Parliament of Uzbekistan. Tashkent, Uzbekistan © 2019 Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Uzbekistan’s parliament is considering worrying...
View ArticleTurkey: Student Protesters at Risk of Prosecution
(Istanbul) – Turkish authorities have placed hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, Human Rights Watch said today. The students were arrested during weeks of protests...
View ArticleTwo Journalists in Belarus Jailed in Retaliation for Their Work
Click to expand Image Journalists Ekaterina Andreyeva (Bakhvalova), right, and Daria Chultsova embrace inside the defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, February 9, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleRussian Activist Given Suspended Sentence for ‘Undesirable’ Charges
Today, a Russian court sentenced Anastasiya Shevchenko to a 4-year suspended sentence for affiliation with an “undesirable organization.” While it is a relief that Shevchenko will not have to serve...
View ArticleGuatemala: Free Press Under Attack
Click to expand Image Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei gives a press conference at the National Theatre, the day before his inauguration in Guatemala City, on Jan. 13, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleCambodia: Internet Censorship, Control Expanded
Click to expand Image A man views Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook page on his mobile phone in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2016 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – The Cambodian...
View ArticleMyanmar: Sanction Generals and Military-Owned Companies
Click to expand Image State Administrative Council Chairman and Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing makes a televised statement in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, February 11, 2021. © 2021 Tatmadaw...
View ArticleMexican Senate Takes a Step to Protect Women with Disabilities
Click to expand Image Women with disabilities demonstrate against violence in Mexico City, Mexico, March 8, 2020. © 2020 Mexicanas con Discapacidad This week, Mexico’s Senate approved a reform to the...
View ArticleEgypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families
Click to expand Image Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gives an address at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, May 26, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Beirut) – The Egyptian authorities’...
View ArticleIndia: Government Policies, Actions Target Minorities
Click to expand Image A woman walks past security forces patrolling a street in a riot affected area in New Delhi, India, February 26, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (New York) – Authorities in...
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