Brazil: President-Elect Lula Should Prioritize Human Rights
Click to expand Image Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva votes in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state, in the presidential runoff on October 30, 2022. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência...
View ArticleBahrain: Political Isolation Laws Ban Opposition
Click to expand Image © 2022 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Beirut) –The Bahraini government is using its political isolation laws and a series of other tactics to keep activists and former...
View ArticleICC: Afghanistan Inquiry Can Resume
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File (The Hague) – The International Criminal Court...
View ArticleRecord Number of States Condemn China’s Persecution of Uyghurs
Click to expand Image The perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang region, April 23, 2021. © 2021 Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo Fifty United Nations...
View ArticleSweden’s New Government Abandons Feminist Foreign Policy
Click to expand Image The new Swedish government pictured on Lejonbacken's terrace at Stockholm Palace, Sweden, October 18, 2022. © 2022 Jonas Ekströmer/TT/AP Photo In 2014, the Swedish government...
View ArticleBahrain: Pope Francis Should Condemn Bahrain Rights Record
(Beirut) – Pope Francis should press Bahrain to end its human rights abuses when he visits the country from November 3 to 6, 2022, nine human rights organizations said today. While in Bahrain, he is...
View ArticleSyria: Civilian Homes Demolished in Security Operation
Click to expand Image US soldiers and Syrian Democratic Forces standing by loader and military vehicles in East Ghweran neighbourhood at 2 p.m. on January 29, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleASEAN: Act to Stop Myanmar Military Abuses
Click to expand Image Activists protest the Myanmar military coup during an ASEAN summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2021. © 2021 Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo (New York) – Governments attending...
View ArticleFighting in Eastern Congo Puts Civilians at Risk, Again
Click to expand Image Civilians flee fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army near Kibumba, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, October 29, 2022. © 2022 Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo...
View ArticleSouth Africa Needs to Step Up Fight Against Gender Based Violence
Click to expand Image President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering the keynote address at the National Gender-based Violence and Femicide Summit on November 1, 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa. © 2018 GCIS The...
View ArticleA Papuan Human Rights Hero Has Died
Click to expand Image Filep Karma outside the Abepura prison in Jayapura, Indonesia, December 2014. © 2014 Andreas Harsono Filep Karma, a prominent Papuan activist and former political prisoner, was...
View ArticleIndia’s Top Court Bans Degrading ‘Two-Finger’ Rape Test
Click to expand Image Activists protest against gender-based violence, in Delhi, India, October 12, 2020. © 2020 Amarjeet kumar Singh/SOPA Images via AP Photo On October 31, India’s Supreme Court...
View ArticleSomalia Reeling from Devastating Attack on Education Ministry
Click to expand Image A destroyed building and vehicles after a double car bomb attack at a busy junction in Mogadishu, Somalia, October 29, 2022. © 2022 Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo On the afternoon...
View ArticleAfrican Rights Commission’s Work More Important Than Ever
Click to expand Image The 73rd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia. © 2022 Francisco Perez (Nairobi) – The growing importance of intensified protection of...
View ArticleCOP27: Ensure Climate Action is Rights-Based
Click to expand Image Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1, 2021. © 2021 Yves...
View ArticleNigeria: Displacement Camp Closures Worsen Suffering
Click to expand Image A woman carries her belongings at the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria on November 30, 2021, as residents vacate the camp ahead of the Borno State government’s closure of all...
View ArticleKenya: ICC Defendant Found Dead
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong (Nairobi) – A Kenyan lawyer awaiting a verdict in a witness tampering...
View ArticleTunisia Tramples Gender Parity Ahead of Parliamentary Elections
Click to expand Image A Tunisian woman holds up a placard that reads in Arabic: “We are full citizens, not a decoration for sponsorships,” during a demonstration in Tunis, Tunisia on October 7, 2022....
View ArticleMozambican Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared in Cabo Delgado
Click to expand Image Arlindo Chissale, pictured on the right, in a photo uploaded to Facebook on October 19, 2022. © 2022 Arlindo Chisalle Another journalist has gone missing in Mozambique’s...
View ArticleWhy is Qatar Opposing a Remedy Fund for Migrant Workers?
Click to expand Image Parents of Ram Kishun Sahani, a Nepali migrant worker who died in Qatar. © 2022 Private Qatar’s Labour Minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri rejected creating a remedy fund for...
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