Iraq: People with Disabilities Face Election Barriers
(Beirut) – People with disabilities in Iraq are facing significant obstacles to participating in upcoming parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021, due to discriminatory legislation and inaccessible...
View ArticleEU Should Address Beijing’s Assault on Rights
Click to expand Image European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese...
View ArticleUS Should Use Refugee Resettlement Slots Now
Click to expand Image A man walks with a child through Doña Ana Village in Fort Bliss, where Afghan refugees are being housed, in New Mexico on September 10, 2021. © 2021 David Goldman/AP Images...
View ArticleParis Exhibition Puts Myanmar Junta's Repression on Display
Click to expand Image Installation of the exhibition Fighting Fear #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Place du Palais Royal in Paris, from September 18th to October 17th 2021 © 2021 Bart Was Not Here The...
View ArticleThailand: Outlaw Torture, Enforced Disappearances
Click to expand Image Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, a prominent ethnic Karen activist, was last seen in government custody at Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province in April 2014. ©...
View ArticleIndia: Government Raids Targeting Critics
Click to expand Image Policemen at the entrance of Press Enclave, which houses several newspaper offices, in Srinagar, India, September 8, 2021. © 2021 Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo (New York) – Indian...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Calls for UN Probe into Beirut Blast
Click to expand Image The Lebanese Association of Lawyers march at the First Anniversary of Port Blast, Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2021. © 2021 Elisa Gestri/Sipa USA/AP Images This week the...
View ArticleUN: World Leaders Should Address Rights Crises
Click to expand Image A woman and child at a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 13, 2021. © 2021 Bernat Armangue/AP Images (New York) – World leaders gathering at...
View ArticleBurundi: Allegations of Killings, Disappearances, Torture
Click to expand Image Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye at his swearing-in ceremony in Gitega, Burundi, on June 18, 2020. © 2020 Evrard Ngendakumana/Xinhua via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Grave...
View ArticleBelarus: Free Human Rights Defenders
Click to expand Image In The Hague, Netherlands, on August 7, a demonstrator holds a placard showing the names of some of those arbitrarily detained in Belarus for protesting against President...
View ArticleUS Authorizes Sanctions in Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict
Click to expand Image Tigrayan men sit atop a hill overlooking part of the Umm Rakouba refugee camp, in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, on December 14, 2020. © 2020 Nariman El-Mofty/AP Images Today, United...
View ArticleNicaragua: Trumped-Up Charges Against Critics
Click to expand Image Lesbia Alfaro, mother of student leader Lesther Alemán, who went into exile after participating in protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in 2018, holds...
View ArticleDR Congo: New Findings on Prison Mass Rape
(Kinshasa) – Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have made no apparent progress investigating the September 2020 prison riot at Kasapa Central Prison in Lubumbashi, Human Rights Watch said. For...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese Officials Intimidate Sex Worker on Camera
Click to expand Image Three sex workers sit at their workplace in Juba, South Sudan on March 5, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo A video, posted to Facebook by the Office of the Mayor of Juba City Council, shows...
View ArticleDiscrimination Against Older People Pervasive Worldwide
Click to expand Image Rohingya people refugees carry an older woman on the way to camp at Shahpori Island, in Teknaf, Bangladesh on September 13, 2017. © 2017 Md. Mehedi Hasan/Pacific Press/Sipa...
View ArticleGhana: LGBT Activists Face Hardships After Detention
Click to expand Image Area 51 Police Station, Ho, Ghana: A.G, a lesbian, was held here for 22 days from May 20, 2021 with four other lesbians after being arbitrarily arrested at a human rights...
View ArticleRwanda: Paul Rusesabagina Convicted in Flawed Trial
Click to expand Image Paul Rusesabagina attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, February 26, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier (Nairobi) – The conviction of the Rwandan critic and political...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council: Renew Libya Fact-Finding Mission’s Mandate
Click to expand Image Government of National Accord fighters take positions during clashes with east-based fighters from the Libyan National Army at Al-Yarmouk frontline in Tripoli, Libya on August...
View ArticleKenya: Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Lack Help
(Nairobi) – The Kenyan government’s response to gender-based violence during the Covid-19 pandemic has been too little, too late, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 61-page report,...
View ArticleUS: Treatment of Haitian Migrants Discriminatory
Click to expand Image US Customs and Border Protection agents on horseback deployed against Haitian migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, September 19,...
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