Venezuela Under Scrutiny at the UN Human Rights Council
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleUkraine: Cluster Munitions Repeatedly Used on Mykolaiv
(Berlin) – Russian forces repeatedly fired cluster munition rockets into the densely populated city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, during separate attacks on March 7, 11, and 13, 2022, Human Rights...
View ArticleBangladesh: Stop Flouting UN Rights Concerns
Click to expand Image RAB members in front of Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 20, 2021. © Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The Bangladesh government should meaningfully respond to...
View ArticleCambodia: Opposition Politicians Convicted in Mass Trial
Click to expand Image Self-exiled Cambodian opposition party founder Sam Rainsy (L) and Mu Sochua (R), deputy president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), speak to the media in Kuala...
View ArticleViolence Increases in Northern Mozambique
Click to expand Image A destroyed house in the town of Mbau, Mozambique, September 23, 2021. © 2021 REUTERS/Baz Ratner This year, attacks by the armed group known locally as Al-Shabab or Al-Sunna wa...
View ArticleTime Running Out to Address Afghanistan’s Hunger Crisis
Click to expand Image A woman holds her baby as he undergoes treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Ataturk National Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, December, 2, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleUkraine: Deadly Attacks Kill, Injure Civilians, Destroy Homes
Click to expand Image A local resident looks at his house destroyed in a Russian air raid in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Andrew Marienko (Lviv) – More than 450 civilians were...
View ArticleMyanmar: UN Rights Body Should Advance Justice
Click to expand Image Smoke rises from burning buildings in Karenni (Kayah) State, Myanmar, February 18, 2022. © 2022 Free Burma Rangers via AP (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council...
View Article‘New Kazakhstan’ Needs Independent Inquiry on January Events
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev speaks during his televised address to the nation in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, January 7, 2022. © © 2022 Kazakhstan's Presidential Press...
View ArticleMore Effort Needed for Meaningful Outcome at WTO on Covid-19
Click to expand Image Protesters hold signs reading "Delay = Death" and "Support WTO Trips Waiver" during a demonstration ahead of the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel near the White House in...
View ArticleMexicans with Intellectual Disabilities Urge Inclusion in Politics
Click to expand Image Collage showing disability rights advocates (from Left to Right): Bryan Russell, Diego Ortiz Cruz, María Fernanda Castro Maya, Luis Alfonso García, and María José Gutiérrez...
View ArticleFour Ways to Support Girls’ Access to Education in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image High school girls in Kabul, Afghanistan, line up to go home after classes in 2017. © 2017 Paula Bronstein for Human Rights Watch A crucial deadline looms for girls in...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Supporting Education for Girls, Women
Click to expand Image High school girls in Kabul, Afghanistan, line up to go home after classes in 2017. © 2017 Paula Bronstein for Human Rights Watch (New York) – International donors seeking to fund...
View ArticleRussia’s Invasion of Ukraine Exacerbates Hunger in Middle East, North Africa
Click to expand Image A boy buys bread from a bakery in Sanaa, Yemen, March 2022. Yemen imports at least 27 percent of its wheat from Ukraine and 8 percent from Russia. © 2022 Hani...
View ArticleAfrica’s Governments Can Do More to Protect Pregnant Students
Click to expand Image A 17-year-old Form Three student, who has a young daughter, leaves a classroom at her senior school in Mukono district, Uganda, February 15, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa...
View ArticleUkraine: Ensure Safe Passage, Aid for Mariupol Civilians
Click to expand Image Ganna Kotelnikova, an anesthesiologist, and her family try to get a signal over medium wave radio to get information about the situation inside the city on March 7, 2022 © Ganna...
View ArticleEmerging Battles Over Forests Crucial to Protect Rights, Tackle Climate Crisis
Click to expand Image Image of an illegal deforestation strip in the Amazonian forest recorded during the Ibama’s Operation Brigada Verde, in Rondonia, Brazil in August 2019 © 2019 Vinícius...
View ArticleMyanmar: US Recognizes Genocide Against Rohingya
Click to expand Image Myanmar armed forces march on the 75th anniversary of Union Day on February 12, 2022 in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. © 2022/ AP Photos (Washington, DC) – The United States government has...
View ArticleMokom’s Reckoning in the Central African Republic
Click to expand Image Maxim Mokom at a peace deal signing ceremony in Bangui, Central African Republic, February 6, 2019. Abbas was announced dead by 3R’s leadership on April 2, 2021. © 2019 GGt On...
View ArticleAustralia: Extreme Heat Threatens Lives
Click to expand Image Denham Court Housing Estate in Western Sydney. Housing estates with homes crammed close together capture and store heat that radiates from one neighbor to the next. January 28,...
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