Yemen: Houthis Risk Civilians’ Health in Covid-19
Click to expand Image Medical workers attend to a Covid-19 patient in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, June 14, 2020. © 2020 Hani Mohammed/AP Photo (Beirut) – Houthi authorities...
View ArticleEgypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
Click to expand Image Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi. During his presidency, Egypt has harassed, prosecuted, arrested and seized the assets of dozens of human rights groups and defenders. ©...
View ArticleChina: Pervasive Discrimination Under Two-Child Policy
Click to expand Image © 2021 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (New York) – China’s two-child policy has made commonplace pregnancy-related discrimination against women in the workplace since...
View ArticleActivists Detained in Kazakhstan 'For Their Own Safety'
Click to expand Image Gulzada Serzhan (left) and Zhanar Sekerbaeva of the unregistered feminist group, Feminita. Nur-Sultan, May 17, 2017. © 2017 Svetlana Glushkova/RFE/RL On May 29, Zhanar Sekerbaeva...
View ArticleGerman Prosecutors Reportedly to Examine Wider Belarus Abuses
Click to expand Image Belarusian police block a street during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus on Oct. 25, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo With global...
View ArticleRussian Activist Targeted Under Abusive 'Undesirable Organization' Law
Click to expand Image Former coordinator of the Open Russia civic movement Andrey Pivovarov after a search in his apartment. June 01, 2021. St Petersburg, Russia. © 2021 David Frenkel Russian...
View ArticleLandmark Ruling in India for Survivors of Sexual Abuse with Disabilities
Click to expand Image When she was 13, Razia (not her real name), who has an intellectual disability and difficulties in speaking, was raped by her brother’s tutor in 2014. (Uttarakhand). © 2017...
View ArticleDocumentary Calls for Justice for Kyrgyzstan’s Azimjon Askarov
Click to expand Image Ethnic Uzbek journalist Azimzhan Askarov, who was arbitrarily arrested, tortured, convicted after an unfair trial, and jailed for life, ultimately died in prison on July 25,...
View ArticleAustralians Should Know That Apartheid Is Still Happening Today
Click to expand Image Protestors hold placards as they take part in a rally in Melbourne, Australia on May 15, 2021. © 2021 William West/AFP via Getty Images When Human Rights Watch released its...
View ArticleIraq: Inadequate Plans for Camp Closures
Click to expand Image Government buses waiting to move families from one camp in Anbar governate to another during a previous wave of camp closures in December 2018. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights...
View ArticleIndonesia: Expanding Palm Oil Operations Bring Harm
(Jakarta) – The harm a palm oil plantation in western Kalimantan, Indonesia, is causing to the surrounding communities and the environment demonstrates the government’s failure to enforce its own...
View ArticleSeven Reasons the EU is Wrong to Oppose the TRIPS Waiver
Click to expand Image People wait to get tested for Covid-19 in Hyderabad, India, April 25, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A. As the Covid-19 pandemic has devastating human rights, social, and...
View ArticleChina: Account for Tiananmen Massacre
Click to expand Image Supporters gather for a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, June 4, 2020, despite applications for it being...
View ArticlePakistan: Escalating Attacks on Journalists
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalist Asad Ali Toor, center, speaks during a demonstration to condemn attacks on journalists, in Islamabad, Pakistan. © 2021 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File (New...
View ArticleUkraine: Reform of Abusive Security Agency at Risk
Click to expand Image Lawmakers attend a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine December 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Berlin) – Ukraine’s parliament should not squander the opportunity presented by the...
View ArticleNew York Governor Should Sign Bill to End Child Marriage
Click to expand Image Women protest child marriage at the New York state capitol in Albany, on Feb. 14, 2017. © 2017 Anna Gronewold/AP Photo On June 2, the New York State Assembly voted unanimously to...
View ArticlePolice Killing, Caught on Video, Riles the Philippines
Click to expand Image Veiled protesters, mostly relatives of victims of alleged extrajudicial killings by the police, display placards during a protest outside the Philippine police headquarters,...
View ArticleLibya: Draconian Decree Would Restrict Civic Groups
Click to expand Image Newly appointed Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabeiba addresses members of the Libyan House of Representatives, a day before his cabinet secured a vote of confidence from the...
View ArticleCambodia: Solve Thai Activist’s ‘Disappearance’
Click to expand Image Sitanun Satsaksit holds a portrait of her brother, Wanchalearm, who was forcibly disappeared while living in exile in Cambodia on June 4, 2020. © 2021 Mirror Foundation (New...
View ArticleTurkey Flouts European Court Judgments
Click to expand Image The Council of Europe, March 22, 2020, in Strasbourg France. © 2020 Nicolas Roses/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images The Council of Europe should insist that Turkey comply immediately...
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