Families of Victims Need Access to Cameroon Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Memorial ceremony held on February 21, 2020 at the Saint Theresia Cathedral l in Kumbo, North-West region, Cameroon, for victims of the Ngarbuh massacre. © 2020 Private The...
View ArticleLiberia Misleads on Justice at UN Rights Review
Click to expand Image File photo depicting the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, November 2017. © 2017 Reuters Liberia’s justice minister, Frank...
View ArticleIndonesia: Dress Codes Discriminate Against Women, Girls
(Jakarta) – Dress codes for women and girls in Indonesia discriminate against students, civil servants, and visitors to government offices and should be revoked, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
View ArticleA Boost to Same-Sex Marriage in Japan
Click to expand Image Lawyers and supporters hold rainbow flags and a banner outside Sapporo District Court in Sapporo, Japan, March 17, 2021. © 2021 Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP It was quite...
View ArticleUN Security Council Urges South Sudan to Establish Hybrid Court
Click to expand Image File photo showing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. © 2016 Andrew Kelly/Reuters South Sudan should heed last week’s call from the UN Security Council to...
View ArticleWill US Repeat History by Failing Haitians Again?
Click to expand Image A migrant from Haiti wearing a mask in the colors of the Mexican and US flags stands at a border crossing waiting to apply for asylum in the US, February 19, 2021. © 2021 Jair...
View ArticleTanzania: President Magufuli’s Death Should Open New Chapter
Click to expand Image Tanzania's President John Magufuli leaves after inspecting a guard of honour during his official visit to Nairobi, Kenya October 31, 2016. © 2016 Reuters Tanzania’s President...
View ArticleAtlanta Shootings Strike Fear into Asian American Community
Click to expand Image A man holds a sign reading “#StopAsianHate” outside Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia on March 17, 2021, where four people were fatally shot the day before. © 2021...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Armenian POWs Abused in Custody
Click to expand Image Ethnic Armenian soldiers walk along the road near the border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo (Berlin) – Azerbaijani forces abused...
View ArticleUS: Atlanta Killings Underscore Dangers of Unaddressed Racism
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View ArticleNew WHO Report Calls Out Global Impacts of Ageism
Click to expand Image Older people crossing the broken bridge at the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint in east Ukraine, November 6, 2018. © 2018 Stanislav Krasilnikov\TASS via Getty Images A...
View ArticleGuatemala Should Do More for LGBT People
Click to expand Image Protest against the “Life and Family Protection” bill in Guatemala City, May 1, 2019. © Daniel Villatoro “We know where you live, we’re going to kill you.” Those words echoed in...
View ArticleImmigration Detainees Hunger Strike Again As Canada Fails To Listen
Click to expand Image Entrance to the Canadian Border Security Agency's (CBSA) Laval Immigration Holding Centre in Quebec, Canada. © Wikimedia Desperate immigration detainees have undergone three...
View ArticleSyria: Bread Crisis Exposes Government Failure
Click to expand Image Syrian authorities distribute food to residents in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, April 16, 2018. © 2018 AP...
View ArticleCanada Should Strive for More on World Water Day
Click to expand Image Water jugs in the community water center in Grassy Narrows, Canada. April 13, 2016. © 2016 Human Rights Watch Where would we be without water to drink, to wash and cook with,...
View ArticleWhen Will There be Justice for Mali Massacre?
Click to expand Image A woman walks with her daughter past the remains of homes that were destroyed during the March 23, 2019 attack on Ogossagou village by armed Dogon men in which over 150...
View ArticleEnd Pakistan’s Enforced Disappearances
Click to expand Image Relatives hold placards and photos of missing family members during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 20, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed Pakistan Prime Minister...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Women’s Full Participation Needed in Talks
Click to expand Image Former President Hamid Karzai, left, and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, second right, attend an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, March 18, 2021....
View ArticleYemen: Houthis Attacking Displaced People’s Camps
Click to expand Image Still from a video showing the crater where a Houthi missile struck in Marib city on March 16, 2021, and damage to surrounding vehicles and buildings. © 2021 Eyad Almsqry...
View ArticleThousands of Foreigners Unlawfully Held in NE Syria
Click to expand Image A boy flies a homemade kite in the foreigners’ section of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on March 15, 2021. © 2021 Sam Tarling Nearly 43,000 foreign men, women, and children...
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