Hungary’s President Should Veto Anti-LGBT Law
Click to expand Image Thousands protest the anti-LGBT law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021. Lydia Gall/© 2021 Human Rights Watch Hungary’s parliament adopted a bill today which effectively bans...
View ArticlePolice ‘Kidnap’ Chechen Woman Who Escaped Abuse
Click to expand Image Screen grab from the video that Khalimat Taramova sent to Chechen authorities, saying she had left Chechnya voluntarily because of abuse. © 2021 Медиазона via Youtube For about...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Internet Sexual Images Ruin Women’s Lives
(Seoul) – Widespread internet posting in South Korea of sexual images of women and girls without their consent is having a devastating impact on the victims, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
View ArticleProgress on Domestic Workers’ Rights, but Gaps Remain
June 16 marks 10 years since the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a groundbreaking treaty establishing global labor standards to protect domestic workers’ rights. In that time, 32...
View ArticleICC: New Prosecutor Takes Up Mandate
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch (The Hague) – The new prosecutor of the International...
View ArticleArmenia: Malicious Prosecution of Activist
(Yerevan) – Armenian authorities have persisted with spurious criminal incitement charges against a human rights activist, Sashik Sultanyan, Human Rights Watch said today. The charges are in...
View ArticleAfrica: Prioritize Education to Safeguard Children’s Rights
Click to expand Image “Angela,” 20, walks with her son near her home after returning from school in Migori county, western Kenya. She is a Form 4 student at a girls-only school. Angela became pregnant...
View ArticleEU: Protect Lives on Central Mediterranean Route
Click to expand Image Migrants and refugees on an overcrowded rubber boat during a rescue by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, Feb. 12, 2021. © AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin (Milan) –...
View ArticleCanada: Abuse, Discrimination in Immigration Detention
Click to expand Image © Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Ottawa) – Canada incarcerates thousands of people, including those with disabilities, on immigration-related grounds every year in often...
View ArticleGhana: Drop Charges Against LGBT Rights Defenders
Click to expand Image People who were detained by police on suspicion of promoting an LGBT agenda at an unlawful assembly arrive at a court for a bail hearing in Ho, Volta Region, Ghana on June 4,...
View ArticleKim Jong Un Acknowledges Food Crisis in North Korea
Click to expand Image (Photo provided by the North Korean government) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Avoids Sweeping License to Discriminate
Click to expand Image Human Rights Campaign Legal Director Sarah Warbelow speaks at a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. following the Fulton...
View ArticleEU: Use Article 7 Now to Protect European Values
Click to expand Image European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Brussels) – European Union affairs ministers should...
View ArticleIMF: Make Cameroon Loan Contingent on Anti-Corruption
Click to expand Image CDC Cameroon Associate Director for Program and Science, Dr. Clement Ndongmo, observes Covid-19 testing procedures for passengers arriving at Nsimalen International Airport in...
View ArticleLiberia: Landmark Swiss Conviction for Wartime Atrocities
Click to expand Image Switzerland's national flag flies over the entrance of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (Bundesstrafgericht) in Bellinzona, Switzerland March 5, 2020. © REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann...
View ArticleEgypt: Commute Death Sentences for Rab’a Protestors
Click to expand Image A volunteer tends to an injured demonstrator in front of a police armored personnel carrier (APC) in Rab’a Square in Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2013. That day, Egyptian police...
View Article'Hugs Not Walls' an Inspiration for US Immigration Policy
Click to expand Image Immigrant families separated by immigration status, lack of visas, or deportations, are briefly reunited in the dry Rio Grande riverbed on the U.S.-Mexico border on May 12, 2018,...
View ArticleIran: Overseer of Mass Executions Elected President
Click to expand Image Ebrahim Raeesi, a candidate in the 2017 presidential elections, addresses his supporters during a campaign rally at Imam Khomeini Mosque in the capital, Tehran, on May 16, 2017....
View ArticleHow Countries Can Do Better on World Refugee Day
Click to expand Image Demonstrators mark World Refugee Day, June 20, 2020, on the streets of Athens. © 2020 Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via AP Photo This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Refugee...
View ArticleSudan’s Planned Joint Force Threatens Rights-Abiding Transition
Click to expand Image A Sudanese soldier from the Rapid Support Forces or RSF stands on his vehicle during a military-backed tribe's rally in the East Nile province, Sudan on June 22th, 2019. © 2019...
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