UN Rights Body Renews Robust Scrutiny over South Sudan
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: Landmark UN Resolution Promotes Justice
Click to expand Image In this April 6, 2015 file photo, Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil women sit holding placards with portraits of their missing relatives as they protest out side a railway station in...
View ArticlePeople in China Left Wondering, ‘What Happened in Xinjiang?’
Click to expand Image A Uighur woman picking up school children rides past a picture showing China's President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders at the Unity New Village in Hotan,...
View ArticleArgentina: Abusive Covid-19 Measures in Northern Province
Click to expand Image People held in mandatory quarantine at School N°18, which served as a quarantine center, in the city of Formosa, on January 21, 2021. © 2021 Leo Fernández. (Washington, DC) –...
View ArticleLebanon: Action Needed on Syrian Refugee Education Crisis
Click to expand Image Fewer than half of the school-age refugee children in Lebanon are in formal education. (Brussels) – Governments should address the unprecedented education crisis facing Syrian...
View ArticleExpanding Access to Cancer Screenings in the US Would Save Lives
Click to expand Image Ms. Frances Ford, executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope, in her home in August 2018, holding a picture of her mother, who died from cervical cancer after being diagnosed in...
View ArticleMozambique: Protect Residents Fleeing Northern Town
Click to expand Image A Mozambican woman works in a rice paddy in Palma, where large deposits of natural gas were found offshore, February 2017. © 2017 JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images Mozambique...
View ArticleBangladesh: ‘Golden Jubilee’ Should be Turning Point on Rights
Click to expand Image Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand on guard at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © 2021 Piyas Biswas / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (New...
View ArticleChina: Companies Should Resist Boycott Threats
Click to expand Image Workers load cotton onto a truck at a sunning ground in Alar (Alaer), northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, September 2015. © Imaginechina via AP Images (New York)...
View ArticleEU-UN Aid Conference Should Focus on Syrians’ Rights
Click to expand Image An aid convoy drives through the city of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, in March 2018 when it was still held by anti-government armed groups. © 2018 Samer...
View ArticleGeneration Equality: Accelerating Progress on Women’s Rights
Click to expand Image Marcelina Bautista, leader of Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar, a domestic workers organization, celebrates the beginning of a pilot program extending...
View ArticleQatar: Male Guardianship Severely Curtails Women’s Rights
Click to expand Image A girl and a woman fly a kite along the promenade by the Doha corniche in the Qatari capital on March 16, 2020. © 2020 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut, March 29, 2021) – Qatar’s...
View ArticleWhy Are Some African Governments Shielding China Over Xinjiang?
Africans have endured more than their fair share of atrocities where the perpetrators got off scot-free, a history that has helped inspire a commitment to global solidarity for human rights and...
View ArticleBelarus: Crackdown on Independent Journalism
Click to expand Image Katsiaryna Barysevich, a journalist for the independent TUT.BY news website enters a court room during a trial in Minsk on 19 February, 2021. © 2021 RAMIL NASIBULIN/BELTA/AFP via...
View ArticleHundreds Missing After Mozambique Attack
Click to expand Image Mozambican army soldiers patrol the streets of Mocimboa da Praia in March 2018. © 2018 Adrien Barbier/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of people remain missing five days after an...
View ArticleRussian Court Extends Activist’s Pretrial Detention
Click to expand Image Mikhail Iosilevich, head of the local branch of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism), an independent group, November 2020. © Private/Facebook A Russian...
View ArticleLebanon: Tripoli Detainees Allege Torture, Forced Disappearance
Click to expand Image Security forces force anti-government protesters away from al-Nour square in the center Tripoli, Lebanon, on January 31, 2021 amidst clashes. © 2021 FATHI AL-MASRI/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleJordan: Yemeni Asylum Seekers Deported
Click to expand Image A Yemeni asylum seeker who arrived in Jordan in 2014, overlooks the city in the neighborhood of Abu Nseir, North of Amman, Jordan on March 25, 2021. © 2021 Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleIMF: Scant Transparency for Covid-19 Emergency Loans
Click to expand Image International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC)...
View ArticleRwanda: Arrests, Prosecutions over YouTube Posts
Click to expand Image From top left to right: Innocent Bahati, Yvonne Idamange, Dieudonné Niyonsenga (alias Cyuma Hassan), Aimable Karasira, and Theoneste Nsengimana. YouTube bloggers and commentators...
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