Global Covid-19 Vaccine Equity Should Get a ‘Booster’ Too
Click to expand Image Empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine lie in a box during a vaccine campaign at the Vaccine Village in Ebersberg, Germany on May 15, 2021....
View ArticleBrazil: Bolsonaro Blocks Critics on Social Media
Click to expand Image Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro uses his cellphone during at event at the presidential palace in Brasilia on June 13, 2019. © André Coelho/Folhapress President Jair Bolsonaro...
View ArticleAustralia: Protect At-Risk Communities from Covid-19
Click to expand Image Deep cleaning at Dubbo West Public School, one of the first locations with reported Covid-19 cases, in Dubbo Australia, August 13, 2021. © 2021 Belinda Soole/Getty Images...
View ArticleUganda Moves to End Longstanding Land Conflict
Click to expand Image Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni photographed in Kenya's capital Nairobi, on February 11, 2020. © 2020 John Muchucha/AP Images Last week, Ugandan President Museveni and nine...
View ArticleUS Paralympian Compelled to Withdraw from Tokyo Games
Click to expand Image Rebecca Meyers competes in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S13 during day 4 of the Para Swimming World Championship in Mexico City, Mexico on November 5, 2017. © 2017 Hector...
View ArticleGaza: Israel’s May Airstrikes on High-Rises
Click to expand Image People in the Gaza Strip stand near the site of the collapsed al-Shorouk tower after an Israeli airstrike on May 12 leveled the building, which contained numerous businesses, and...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Needs to Investigate Abuses in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 22, 2021. © 2021 Rahmat Gul/AP Images As reports mount of grave...
View ArticleProposed Pakistan Authority Seeks Greater Control of Media
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalists and activists at a demonstration called by the journalists union to condemn attacks on the media, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 28, 2021. © 2021 Anjum...
View ArticleEurope: Lead Efforts to Protect At-Risk Afghans
Click to expand Image Several Afghans sit on the tarmac awaiting to leave from Kabul's airport on August 16, 2021. © 2021 WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images (Brussels) – The European Union, the United...
View ArticleHaiti: Protect Women, Girls in Quake Response
Click to expand Image Residents help Team Rubicon's disaster response team unload aid at the airport from a US Army helicopter to take to the hospital where the team is treating residents injured in...
View ArticleBangladesh: Fleeing Rohingya Die at Sea
Click to expand Image Fencing encloses the Rohingya refugee camp on the island of Bhasan Char, off the coast of Bangladesh. © 2021 Private (New York) – A fishing boat carrying more than 40 Rohingya...
View ArticleRussia: Insufficient Home Services for Older People
Click to expand Image A pensioner carries logs in the courtyard of her wooden house where she opened a private museum of the old quarter, in Nikolayevskaya Sloboda, Krasnoyarsk, Russia on September...
View ArticleZambia’s Peaceful Transition ‘a New Dawn?’
Click to expand Image Zambian President-elect Hakainde Hichilema addresses a press conference at his residence in Lusaka, Zambia, August 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi Zambia’s...
View ArticleFormer Chad Dictator Habré’s Dead, Victims Still Await Compensation
Click to expand Image Former Chad dictator Hissène Habré, left, leaving the court in Dakar, Senegal on November 25, 2005. © 2005 AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré...
View ArticleBrazil: Reject Anti-Indigenous Rights Bill
Click to expand Image Indigenous people protest against a bill on the demarcation of indigenous land, in front of the National Congress, on June 8 2021, in Brasilia, Brazil. © Mateus Bonomi/AGIF (via...
View ArticleEvacuate At-Risk Afghans
Click to expand Image Children and adults on their arrival in Dubai after being evacuated from Afghanistan by the Spanish government, on August 20, 2021. © 2021 Europa Press via AP Thousands of...
View ArticlePersecution of Critics Needs to End In Russia-Occupied Crimea
Click to expand Image An activist holds a placard during a rally in support of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's freelance journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev, Ukraine on July...
View ArticleCuba: Telecommunications Decree Curtails Free Speech
Click to expand Image Cuban Rolando Remedios shows a photo on his mobile phone of him being arrested during the July 11 protests. Remedios was released on August 6. © 2021 Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP...
View ArticleFamilies of Sri Lanka’s Forcibly Disappeared Denied Justice
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan women hold portraits of missing loved ones, during a protest demanding the government investigate enforced disappearances, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 14, 2020. ©...
View ArticleThailand: Drug Suspect Tortured to Death
Click to expand Image Four police officers wanted in connection with the killing of a suspect in their custody arrive at the Nakhon Sawan police station in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand, August 25,...
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