Canada: Let Gravely Ill Canadians Leave Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image Canadian Kimberly Polman in Roj camp in northeast Syria. © 2019 Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo Canada is effectively preventing a Canadian woman and a young Canadian child detained in...
View ArticlePoland’s President Should Veto Bill Targeting Sex Education
Click to expand Image People hold a protest rally in front of Poland's Education Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, October 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski Rights activists, students, and...
View ArticlePhilippines: Candidates Should Pledge to Free Jailed Senator
Click to expand Image Senator Leila de Lima, center, is escorted to detention a day after a warrant was issued for her arrest, Manila, Philippines, February 24, 2017. © 2017 AP Photos/Bullit Marquez...
View ArticleLandmark Decision on Colombia Abortion Rights
Click to expand Image Abortion rights activists celebrate in front of Colombia’s Constitutional Court in Bogota, Colombia, February 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Fernando Vergara Colombia’s Constitutional...
View ArticleGlobal: Older People at Heightened Risk in Conflict
(New York) – Older people are often at heightened risk of abuses during armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. All parties to armed conflict should end abuses against older...
View ArticleUS Congress Falls Short in Plan to Cut Insulin Costs
Click to expand Image A woman fills a syringe with insulin at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce, California, April 29, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Reed Saxon United States Senate Majority...
View ArticleMyanmar: EU Needs to Enforce New Sanctions on Junta
Click to expand Image Myanmar military advance towards protesters during a demonstration against the military coup. © Photo by Santosh Krl/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The...
View ArticleEl Salvador’s Broad Computer Crime Laws Threaten Rights
Click to expand Image An interior view of the El Salvadoran legislative assembly in San Salvador on May 1, 2021. © 2021 Camilo Freedman / SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images Earlier this month, El...
View ArticleVenezuela: EU Elections Report Flags Rights Barriers
Click to expand Image Isabel Santos, front, member of the European Parliament and Chief Observer of the 2021 EU Election Observation Mission to Venezuela, leaves the National Electoral Council...
View ArticleSenior Military Officer Accused of Crackdown on Protesters in Iraq
Click to expand Image As part of a funeral procession, people transport the coffin of a protester killed at a Baghdad demonstration, November 24, 2019. © 2019 Reuters/Khalid al-Mousily Criminal...
View ArticleGuanajuato, Mexico Recognizes Non-Binary Person’s Identity
Click to expand Image Fausto Martínez descends a flight of stairs in Guanajuato, Mexico, February 18, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Mario Armas On February 11, Mexico’s Guanajuato state issued Fausto...
View ArticleEgypt: Hunger Strike Against Indefinite Detention
Click to expand Image Ahmed Maher, Abdel Rahman Tarek, and Walid Shawky. © Private (Beirut) – Three Egyptian activists began hunger strikes on February 10 and 11, 2022, to protest their indefinite...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Cluster Munition Hits Hospital
(Berlin) – A Russian ballistic missile carrying a cluster munition struck just outside a hospital in Vuhledar, a town in the Ukrainian government-controlled Donetska region, on February 24, 2022, Human...
View ArticleTexas Officials Threaten Transgender Children and Families
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather outside the State Capitol to speak out against anti-transgender legislation being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House in Austin, Texas, May 20,...
View ArticleRussia: Arbitrary Detentions of Anti-War Protesters
Click to expand Image People attend an anti-war protest, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24, 2022, after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a military operation in Ukraine. © 2022...
View ArticleEU: Disappointing Draft on Corporate Due Diligence
Click to expand Image “I don’t have gloves; when we pick up the fruit bunches it hurts us,” said a palm fruit harvester that has worked for the Congolese palm oil company PHC for over a decade....
View ArticleRussia: With War, Censorship Reaches New Heights
Click to expand Image Journalists work in the news room of the independent Dozhd (Rain) television channel in Moscow, Russia. © 2021 AP/Denis Kaminev (Berlin) – Russian authorities have threatened to...
View ArticlePakistan: Repeal Amendment to Draconian Cyber Law
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalists and civil society activists take part in a demonstration called by the journalists’ union to condemn attacks on journalists, in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 28,...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Candidates Speak Out on Human Rights
Click to expand Image South Korea’s presidential candidates – (l to r) Lee Jae-myung, Ahn Cheol-soo, Shim Sang-jung, and Yoon Suk-yeol – pose for a photo before a televised debate for the March 9...
View ArticleGambia Calls for Justice as Rohingya Face Dire Threats
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees await the arrival of a U.N. Security Council team at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/A.M. Ahad A...
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