Israel: Free French-Palestinian Rights Worker
Click to expand Image Salah Hamouri. © Elsa Lefort (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities should immediately release the French-Palestinian human rights worker Salah Hamouri from administrative detention...
View ArticleUkraine: Unlawful Russian Attacks in Kharkiv
Click to expand Image The impact pattern left on the ground after the detonation of an explosive submunition, one of at least a dozen in the area, in front of the women’s outpatient services clinic of...
View ArticleThailand: Officials Indicted for Karen Activist’s Murder
Click to expand Image Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, a prominent ethnic Karen community and environmental activist, was allegedly murdered in the custody of the Kaeng Krachan National Park...
View ArticleUS: Major Steps to Address Health Care, Climate Crisis
Click to expand Image A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images (Washington) – The US government’s passage of the Inflation...
View ArticleActivist in Cameroon Detained Again
In September 2019, prominent Cameroonian Anglophone peace activist Abdul Karim Ali was arrested. He was held without access to a lawyer for five days before authorities finally released him weeks...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Economic Crisis Puts Rights in Peril
Click to expand Image Women wait near an empty fuel station hoping to buy kerosene oil for cooking in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 26, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena (New York) – Sri Lanka’s...
View ArticleVenezuela: UN Human Rights Council Should Renew Experts’ Mandate
Click to expand Image Members of Venezuela's Special Action Forces (FAES) carry out a security operation in Caracas, on April 1, 2019. © 2019 Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images (Geneva) – The United...
View ArticleTurkey/Syria: Civilians at Risk in Northern Syria
Click to expand Image Fighters of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army take part in a military parade in the countryside of Aleppo Governorate on June 9, 2022, as part of the forces' preparations...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Use Peace Deal Extension for Reforms
Click to expand Image South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (2nd R) and his former deputy turned rebel leader Riek Machar (2nd L) shake hands as they make a last peace deal at the 33rd Extraordinary...
View ArticleVietnam Adopts Global LGBT Health Standard
Click to expand Image A cyclist holds up a poster reading in Vietnamese, "Shine your true colors," ahead of a bike rally in Hanoi, Vietnam, September 24, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Hau Dinh (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleUS Health Agency Undermines Equity in Covid-19 Policy
Click to expand Image The offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, April 19, 2022. © AP Photo/Ron Harris, File The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Woman Sentenced to 34 Years for Tweets
Click to expand Image Salma Al-Shehab. © 2022 Democracy Now (Beirut) – A Saudi appeals court in early August 2022 dramatically increased the prison sentence of a Saudi doctoral student from 6 years to...
View ArticleRaising the Alarm: Israel’s All-Out Assault on Rights Defenders
Click to expand Image Activists hang a poster in solidarity with outlawed Palestinian civil society organizations at the offices of one of them, the human rights group al-Haq, on August 18, 2022. ©...
View ArticleEgypt Seeks “Exceptional” Treatment by the IMF
Click to expand Image People sit under a banner with a picture of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that reads, "Long live Egypt," at a coffee shop in Cairo, Egypt, March 22, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleHong Kong: 47 Lawmakers, Activists Face Unfair Trial
Click to expand Image On January 6, 2021, Hong Kong police arrested 53 pro-democracy politicians for “subversion” because they had organized or participated in an unofficial public opinion poll in...
View ArticleSingapore to Decriminalize Gay Sex
Click to expand Image Demonstrators attend the annual "Pink Dot" event in a public show of support for the LGBT community at Hong Lim Park in Singapore on June 18, 2022. © 2022 ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via...
View ArticleTajikistan: Autonomous Region Protesters Denied Fair Trials
Click to expand Image The Tajikistan flag. © 2022 Maksim Konstantinov, Sipa via AP Images (Berlin, August 23, 2022) – Dozens of residents of an autonomous region in Tajikistan detained since May 2022...
View ArticlePakistan: Make Torture a Crime
Click to expand Image Soldiers and police stand guard during a lockdown to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Karachi, Pakistan, March 3, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Fareed Khan (New York) –...
View ArticleMyanmar: No Justice, No Freedom for Rohingya 5 Years On
(Bangkok) – Rohingya Muslims are still awaiting justice and protection of their rights five years after the Myanmar military began a sweeping campaign of massacres, rape, and arson in northern Rakhine...
View ArticleVietnam: Quash Conviction of Prominent Activist
Click to expand Image Pham Doan Trang with two books that she co-authored, 2019. © Private (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should quash the conviction of the prominent human rights activist and...
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