Poland Undermines Justice at Home and across Europe
Click to expand Image A protestor stands outside the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, Poland, on April 28, 2021 with posters that say Rule of Law and No Polexit! © 2021 Czarek Sokolowski/AP Images...
View ArticleFrontex Reform Needed to Protect Migrant Rights in Europe
Click to expand Image A Frontex vehicle patrols the Greek Turkish borders near Nea Vyssa village along Evros (Maritsa) river on June 18, 2021. © 2021 Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/AP Images The European...
View ArticleA Day to Reflect on International Justice
Click to expand Image Protesters hold up pictures of victims of extrajudicial killings during Human Rights Day protests in Manila, Philippines, December 10, 2017. © 2017 Ezra Acayan/Sipa USA via AP...
View ArticleNew York City Hospitals Prohibit Unnecessary Intersex Surgeries
Click to expand Image People rally to end intersex surgeries in New York City, October 27, 2018. © 2018 Hunter Abrams New York City Health & Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the...
View ArticleDR Congo: Free Youth Activists
Click to expand Image Youth activists Eric Muhindo, left, and Elisée Lwatumba, center, at Butembo’s central prison, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. © 2021 Private (Goma) – Congolese authorities...
View ArticleJapan: Prime Minister Should Back LGBT Equality Act
Click to expand Image (Tokyo) – The Japanese government’s failure to pass a national nondiscrimination law to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people before the Tokyo 2020...
View ArticleUAE: Prominent Jailed Activist in Danger
Click to expand Image In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. © 2016 AP Photo/Jon Gambrell (Beirut)...
View ArticleEuropean Union Court OKs Bans on Religious Dress at Work
Click to expand Image Young women with headscarves sit in the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany on January 31, 2020. © 2021 Sonja Wurtscheid/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Protection of religious freedom...
View ArticleThreat of Prosecution Forces Closure of Top Russian Rights Group
Click to expand Image Russian lawyer Ivan Pavlov, center, walks to attend a court session after speaking to the media at Moscow Court, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. © 2021 Alexander...
View ArticleKenya: Irregularities Mar Covid-19 Cash Transfers
(Nairobi) – Kenyan authorities failed to design a social security program that would guarantee everyone, not just a few, an adequate standard of living during the pandemic, Human Rights Watch said in a...
View ArticleDoctor Demanding Justice Detained in Turkmenistan
On July 16, police in Turkmenistan arrested a doctor whose unfair dismissal was raised during a human rights panel that I moderated that was held a day earlier by the European Parliament. Khursanai...
View ArticleGerman Flood Deaths Highlight Climate Change Risks for People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image The “Lebenshilfe-Haus” or ‘assisted-living facility”, where twelve people with disabilities drowned in floods on July 15, 2021. © 2021 Thomas Frey/dpa via AP On July 15, twelve...
View ArticleHong Kong: Drop Charges Against Vigil Organizer
Click to expand Image Chow Hang-tung, Vice Chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriotic Movements of China, leaves after being released on bail at a police station in...
View ArticleMyanmar: Junta Tribunals Impose 65 Death Sentences
Click to expand Image Soldiers and police stand guard behind a road barricade in Mandalay, Myanmar, February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Myanmar junta’s military tribunals have sentenced...
View ArticleBiden Border Expulsions Continue to Harm Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Honduran men cross into the United States to begin the asylum process Monday, July 5, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The administration of President Joe Biden continues to turn away...
View ArticleIn China, Chinese Now Tops Tibetan
Click to expand Image Signs marking the national college entrance examination sites in Nagchu Municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region. © The Chinese government has long issued laws and statements...
View ArticleGreek Authorities Target NGOs Reporting Abuses against Migrants
Click to expand Image A dinghy with migrants, left, in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast on April 2, 2021. © 2021 Hellenic Coast Guard via AP...
View ArticleTanzanian Opposition Leader, Supporters Arrested
Click to expand Image Tanzania Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe (center) arrives at the party's headquarters after being released from Segerea prison in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 13, 2020....
View ArticleAbuses in Aluminum Supply Chains a Blind Spot for Car Industry
Automobile companies need to do more to address human rights abuses in their aluminum supply chains. The transition to electric vehicles means that car manufacturers are forecast to double their...
View ArticleFrance: Class Action Lawsuit against Ethnic Profiling
Click to expand Image Police agents check identity documents of passerby during the lockdown in Rennes, France. April 11, 2020. © 2020 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – France has failed to take necessary...
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