Turkey: Violation of Osman Kavala’s Rights Intensifies
Click to expand Image Osman Kavala © 2017 Private (Istanbul) – The Turkish government’s failure to comply with a binding European Court of Human Rights order to release the human rights defender Osman...
View ArticleNew Podcast Series: Speaking Truth to Power
Click to expand Image © Copyright Volume 2021 for Human Rights Watch (Nairobi) – A new podcast series that will begin on March 1, 2021 will feature young African activists who are fighting...
View ArticleFrance: Pass Bill Enabling Return of Stolen Assets
Click to expand Image The building that houses the French National Assembly, the lower house of France’s bicameral Parliament, June 22, 2014. © 2014 Dennis Jarvis (Paris) – France’s National Assembly...
View ArticleSudan: Unlawful Detentions by Rapid Support Forces
UPDATE: On February 23 Sudan announced it had passed laws ratifying both International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the United Nations Convention against...
View ArticleNepal: Human Rights Commission’s Integrity in Jeopardy
Click to expand Image Prime Minister of Nepal KP Sharma Oli, January 10, 2021. © Photo by Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – The Nepal government should immediately withdraw an ordinance...
View ArticleUS: House Should Not Pass Policing Bill Without Changes
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather at the Minnesota governor's mansion Monday, June 1, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being...
View ArticleHong Kong: 47 Charged Under Abusive Security Law
Click to expand Image Supporters protest outside a court in Hong Kong where police brought 47 pro-democracy activists charged with with “conspiracy to commit subversion,” March 1, 2021. © 2021 Vincent...
View ArticleAustralia: Urgently Address Aged Care Abuse
Click to expand Image A resident looks out from the window of the Florence Aged Care Facility amid the second wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Melbourne, Australia August 17, 2020. ©...
View ArticleRwandan Judiciary Under Scrutiny
Click to expand Image Paul Rusesabagina, a prominent government critic, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda on February 26, 2021. Rwanda’s High Court Chamber for International and Cross-border...
View ArticleUnited States: Pandemic Impact on People in Poverty
Click to expand Image Volunteers load food into the trunk of vehicles during a ''Let's Feed LA County'' drive-thru food distribution by the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the office of Supervisor...
View ArticleMyanmar: Post-Coup Legal Changes Erode Human Rights
Click to expand Image Anti-coup protesters stage a sit-in demonstration, Mandalay, Myanmar, February 24, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s military government should reverse its post-coup...
View ArticleThe UK Supreme Court Has Failed Shamima Begum
Click to expand Image Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard, London, England, February 22, 2015. © 2015 Laura...
View ArticleRights of Sri Lankan Muslims Need International Protection
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 ArticleNigerian Victim Calls for Justice at Gambia Truth Commission
Click to expand Image Paul Omozemoje Enagameh of Nigeria who was arrested and forcibly disappeared in The Gambia in 2005. © photo courtesy of Enagameh family (Banjul) – A Nigerian man whose brother...
View ArticleSouth Asia’s Women’s Rights Activists Should Be Heard
As 2020 drew to a close, protesters across South Asia took to the streets, calling on their governments to take widespread sexual violence against women and children seriously, and to implement real...
View ArticleTime for a Female UN Secretary-General?
Click to expand Image U.N. headquarters Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. © AP Photo/Jeenah Moon There have been nine United Nations secretaries-general over the past 75 years, from all corners of the earth....
View ArticleHow Europe Can Help End Death and Despair in the Mediterranean Sea
Click to expand Image Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015. © 2015 Reuters As the pandemic consumes Europe’s...
View ArticleJapan: Adopt LGBT Equality Act Before Olympics
Click to expand Image Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, left, speaks to media after a video conference with the IOC executive board in Tokyo, Japan, February 24, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleCambodia: Quash Conviction of Opposition Leaders
Click to expand Image Sam Rainsy talks with media at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, November 9, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Cambodian government should immediately end...
View ArticleUS Has a Chance to Protect Forests Worldwide
Click to expand Image “I don’t have gloves; when we pick up the fruit bunches it hurts us,” said a palm fruit harvester that has worked for the Congolese palm oil company PHC for over a decade....
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