Malaysia: Surge in Summary Deportations to Myanmar
Click to expand Image An immigration vehicle takes Myanmar nationals to a Malaysian naval base for deportation, February 23, 2021. © 2021 Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) – Malaysian...
View ArticleRussia: Appeal in Trumped-Up Chechnya Conviction
Update: On October 25, the Fifth General Jurisdiction Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk rejected the appeal.(Berlin) – Two men, whom police tortured in Chechnya, are appealing their conviction on false,...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Arrests Activists en Masse
Click to expand Image Demonstrators on October 24, 2022 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan call for detained opposition politicians and activists to be freed and protest a border demarcation deal with Uzbekistan...
View ArticlePrevent Civilian Harm from Explosive Weapons
Click to expand Image A fireman stands in the ruins of a building destroyed by a Russian cruise missile, which also injured several civilians, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 9, 2022. © 2022 Alex Chan Tsz...
View ArticleUS: Protect the Right to Vote
Click to expand Image (Washington, DC) – Election officials in the United States have human rights obligations to ensure that everyone entitled to vote in the November 8, 2022 elections are able to do...
View ArticleChad: Scores of Protesters Shot Dead, Wounded
Click to expand Image A barricade is set on fire during anti- government barricades in N'Djamena, Chad, October 20, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo (Nairobi) – Security forces fired on protesters in several...
View ArticleUS: Anti-Trans Bills Also Harm Intersex Children
Click to expand Image People rally to end intersex surgeries in New York City, October 27, 2018. © 2018 Hunter Abrams (New York) – The spate of anti-transgender legislative proposals across the...
View ArticleNew UK Prime Minister’s Cabinet Raises Rights Concerns
Click to expand Image Rishi Sunak makes his first speech as British prime minister outside 10 Downing Street, London, October 25, 2022. © 2022 KGC-254/STAR MAX/IPx via AP Photo These are unprecedented...
View ArticleRussia Uses Facial Recognition to Hunt Down Draft Evaders
Click to expand Image Facial recognition payment gates at Smolenskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, on August 27, 2021. © 2021 Bloomberg/Getty Images Moscow authorities are using the city’s video...
View ArticleASEAN Ministers Hold Emergency Myanmar Meeting
Click to expand Image Immigration authorities transport Myanmar nationals before their deportation from Malaysia, February 23, 2021. © 2021 Lim Huey Teng/Reuters Southeast Asian foreign ministers are...
View ArticleMali: Coordinated Massacres by Islamist Armed Groups
Click to expand Image United Nations police patrol Ménaka region in northeast Mali on June 13, 2021. © 2021 MINUSMA/Gema Cortes (Nairobi) – Islamist armed groups in Mali have killed hundreds of people...
View ArticleRacist Political Mailer Feeds Misinformation in New York
Click to expand Image A sign advertising a bail bonds business is displayed near Brooklyn's jail and courthouse complex in New York, July 2015. © 2015 Kathy Willens/AP Photo Earlier this month,...
View ArticleEnding US Subminimum Tipped Wages can Reduce Poverty and Inequality
Click to expand Image Francis Nwokeji, a restaurant worker from New York, speaks during a press conference calling on Congress to abolish the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers in Washington DC,...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: First War Crimes Verdict Due
Click to expand Image Proceedings at the Special Criminal Court in May 2022 during its first trial. © 2022 Special Criminal Court (Nairobi) – The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Authorities Renew Attack on Media
Click to expand Image President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov speaks at a plenary session of parliament where new ministers are sworn in on March 9, 2022 in Bishkek. © 2022 Nazir Aliyev Tayfur/Anadolu...
View ArticleCongo’s Indigenous Rights Bill Stalls
Click to expand Image An Indigenous woman and her children walk to a market to sell pottery on Idjwi island, eastern Congo, January 2017. © 2017 Therese Di Campo/Reuters Four months ago, the...
View ArticleDecree on Libyan Women’s Non-Citizen Children Fails Discrimination Test
Click to expand Image A woman walks with her two children at sunset near the seashore in Benghazi April 29, 2014. © 2014 Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters On October 19, the Council of Ministers of the...
View ArticleStill No Justice for 2020 Zanzibar Election Violence
Click to expand Image Residents line up to vote before the deadline in Zanzibar, Tanzania, October 28, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo Today marks two years since Tanzania’s most recent general elections, when...
View ArticleAustralia’s FIFA World Cup Team First to Collectively Back Workers, LGBT Rights
Click to expand Image The Australian national soccer team, the Socceroos, pose for a photo before the start of a game in Brisbane, Australia, September 22, 2022. © 2022 Dan Peled/AP Photo Australia’s...
View ArticleTurkey Jails Another Human Rights Defender
Click to expand Image Şebnem Korur Fincancı © 2022 TİHV Şebnem Korur Fincancı is the latest human rights defender to be jailed in Turkey as authorities pursue a bogus investigation against her for...
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