Rwanda: Round Ups-Linked to Commonwealth Meeting
Click to expand Image UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left), then Foreign Secretary, and Paul Kagame (right), President of Rwanda, meet during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London,...
View ArticleRussia: Three Human Rights Groups Penalized
Click to expand Image The Russian flag flies on a courthouse building in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 15 2020. © 2020 Alexander Koriakov/Kommersant/Sipa via AP Images (Berlin) – Russian authorities...
View ArticleFrench Court Confirms Dissolution of Anti-Discrimination Group
Click to expand Image Protesters hold a banner at a demonstration against a bill dubbed as "anti-separatism" and islamophobic in Paris, France on March 21, 2021. © 2021 ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleMali: Inquiry Links Basketball Federation to Sexual Abuse
Click to expand Image Former President of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Hamane Niang attends the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 official mascot launch ceremony on April 18, 2018 in...
View ArticleBeijing to Reduce ‘Non-Medically Necessary’ Abortions
Click to expand Image A promotion for China's defunct one-child policy remains on the outer wall of a government office in Bobai, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, August 26, 2021. © 2021 The Yomiuri...
View ArticleUS Congress Should Create Pathway to Citizenship
Click to expand Image Hina Naveed, DACA recipient, discusses the urgent need for a pathway to citizenship with US Vice President Kamala Harris and other DACA recipients, Thursday, July 22, 2021, at...
View ArticleSudan’s Rights-Abiding Transition is Under Threat
Click to expand Image Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok chairs a cabinet meeting in the capital Khartoum, Sudan on September 21, 2021. © 2021 AFP via Getty Images Next week Sudan’s human rights...
View ArticleMozambique: ISIS-linked Group Using Child Soldiers
Click to expand Image A destroyed house in the town of Mbau, Mozambique, September 23, 2021. © 2021 REUTERS/Baz Ratner (Johannesburg) – An Islamic State (ISIS) linked armed group in northern...
View ArticleWith Pandemic, Mental Health Services Even More Critical
Click to expand Image Oluwasegun, a 29-year-old man sits chained at Oke Oloro clinic in Ibadan City, Oyo State, Nigeria where prayer and herbal medicine are used for his mental health condition....
View ArticleBelarus: Authorities Target Top Human Rights Group
Click to expand Image A riot police officer guards the area in State Flag Square, Minsk, Belarus, with the Supreme Court building in the background on September 20, 2020. © 2020 Valery Sharifulin\TASS...
View ArticleRohingya Leader Mohibullah Killed in Bangladesh
Click to expand Image (New York) – On September 29, 2021, Mohibullah, 46, chair of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in...
View ArticleRussian Authorities Arrest Crimean Tatar Lawyer While Representing His Clients
Click to expand Image Edem Semdlyaev, Simferopol, Crimea 2021 © 2021 Crimean Solidarity Yesterday, Russian authorities arbitrarily arrested lawyer Edem Semedlyaev, while he was advising clients at a...
View ArticleTurkey: Turkmen Activists Face Deportation
Click to expand Image A man walks near Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. © 2019 AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis (Berlin) – The Turkish government should halt any plans to deport two detained Turkmen...
View ArticleMalaysia: Reject Police Complaints Bill
Click to expand Image Malaysian parliament hears the 2021 budget speech in Kuala Lumpur, November 6, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo (New York) – The Malaysian parliament should reject the proposed police...
View ArticleThe Toll of Bolsonaro’s Disastrous Covid-19 Response
Click to expand Image Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro holds a drug he recommended to treat Covid-19 during a Facebook live event in April 2020. That drug has no proven effect against the virus. ©...
View ArticleIraq/Kurdistan Region: Former ISIS Suspects Stuck in Limbo
Click to expand Image Iraqi soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Nineveh, Iraq. Friday Dec. 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Samya Kullab (Beirut, October 28, 2021) – Dozens of Sunni Arab men who served...
View ArticleTunisia: Attack on Director of LGBT Group
Click to expand Image Badr Baabou, director of Damj Association for Justice and Equality, following his assault by suspected police officers in Tunisia. © 2021 Badr Baabou Two police officers...
View ArticleIllinois: Legislature Repeals Harmful Abortion Restriction
Click to expand Image Pro-abortion rights demonstrators take part in a Women's March in Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Rallies were held in major cities across the country to demand continued...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Finally Frees Alleged Child Offender
Click to expand Image Ali al-Nimr was one of at least three Saudi men on death row for protest-related crimes committed when they were children. © 2011 Eshaparvathi/Creative Commons Nearly ten years...
View ArticleThe International Court of Justice Should Have More Women Judges
Click to expand Image Judges are pictured during the second day of hearings in the case brought by Gambia against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, December 11,...
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