Biden Pledges Support for Covid-19 Intellectual Property Waiver
Click to expand Image Supporters attend the Rally for Vaccine Access for Everyone, Everywhere on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Eric Kayne/AP Images for Social Security Works) People...
View ArticleCOVAX: Enhance Transparency, Share Intellectual Property
Click to expand Image A woman receives the AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 at an apartment building in Bengaluru, India, April 24, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi (New York) – The COVAX vaccine...
View ArticleUganda: Reject Sexual Offenses Bill
Click to expand Image Brenda, a Ugandan transgender woman, was arrested and assaulted by police in the wake of the passage of Uganda’s 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Activists fear that the passage of...
View ArticleGreece: Custody Bill Puts Women, Children at Risk
Click to expand Image Protest outside the Greek Parliament in Athens on March 27, 2021 against a bill that would introduce compulsory equal joint custody of children in cases of separation or divorce....
View ArticleClimate Crisis A Rising Threat to Maternal Health in the US
Click to expand Image Farmworkers, considered essential workers under the current Covid-19 pandemic guidelines, work a strawberry field in Santa Paula, California, April 15, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Health Care for Women Hit by Aid Cuts
(New York) – Falling donor support for essential services in Afghanistan is reducing women’s access to essential health care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. More cuts are likely...
View ArticleICC Sentences LRA Leader to 25 Years
Click to expand Image Dominic Ongwen at his confirmation of charges hearing in ICC courtroom I on 21 January 2016 © ICC-CPI. The International Criminal Court (ICC) today imposed a 25-year-sentence on...
View ArticleMyanmar: Junta Bans Satellite Television
Click to expand Image Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger sign of defiance during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on April 23, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Myanmar junta added a...
View ArticleMartial Law in Eastern Congo No Pretext for Abuse
Click to expand Image Congolese soldiers stand in a field camp in Paida, near Beni, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 7, 2018. © 2018 Goran Tomasevic/Reuters Martial law...
View ArticleUS State of Alabama Removes Anti-LGBT Language from Sex Ed Law
Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) Alabama’s Governor Kay Ivey has signed a bill that will update the US state’s sexuality education law, removing...
View ArticleRaid in Rio de Janeiro Leaves 25 Dead
Click to expand Image Activists and relatives of victims shout slogans and demand justice the day after a deadly police operation in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 7, 2021. ©...
View ArticleJapan’s Ruling Party LGBT Bill Falls Short
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, May 7, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Hiro Komae Over the past six years, activists in Japan have...
View ArticleThailand: Land Rights Activist Gunned Down
Click to expand Image Somsak Ochuenjit © 2020 Private (New York) – Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist, in Trang...
View ArticleUN Security Council: Adopt Global Arms Embargo on Myanmar
Click to expand Image A police officer stands in front of anti-coup protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (New York) – The United Nations Security Council should...
View ArticleUAE: Foreign Debtor Trapped in Dire Circumstances
Click to expand Image UAE flag with Dubai skyline © 2019 Getty Images (Beirut) – United Arab Emirates authorities have barred an Iranian national from leaving the country or working for nearly seven...
View ArticleMiddle East/North Africa: End Violent Punishment of Children
Click to expand Image © 2020 Dadu Shin for Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should outlaw the violent discipline of children, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleEurope: Redouble Efforts to End Violence Against Women
(Berlin) – Council of Europe member states should reinforce efforts to combat violence against women by swiftly ratifying and carrying out a landmark regional convention on women’s rights, Human Rights...
View ArticleAttack on Ex-Maldives’ President Shows Cost of Impunity
Click to expand Image Maldivian police officers secure the area following a blast in Male, Maldives, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Maldives' first democratically elected president and current Parliament...
View ArticleKilling Schoolgirls in Afghanistan
Scenes from Sayed ul-Shuhada High School in Kabul, Afghanistan, where as many as 85 people including many schoolgirls were killed in an attack this weekend, should break anyone’s heart. They certainly...
View ArticleNepal: Act to Avert Looming Covid-19 Disaster
Click to expand Image A family member mourns next to the bodies of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 7, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha (New...
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