US Jails and Prisons Sink to Banning Mail
Click to expand Image A prisoner holds a tablet that he checked out from a corrections officer, left, at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men, in Concord, N.H., July 23, 2018. © 2018 Charles...
View ArticleJailed Belarusian Rights Defender Faces Ill-Treatment
Click to expand Image Nasta Lojka, 2022. © 2022 Private On Monday, a court in Minsk, Belarus, sentenced human rights defender Nasta Lojka to 15 days’ detention on bogus charges of “petty hooliganism”....
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges Against Dissident on Facebook
Click to expand Image Bui Van Thuan. © Private (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the outspoken commentator Bui Van Thuan and drop the politically motivated charges...
View ArticleEgypt: Detentions, Repression Follow Protest Calls
Click to expand Image Demonstrators participate in a silent protest at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 10, 2022. © 2022 Peter Dejong/AP Photo (Beirut) – Egyptian...
View ArticleAfghan Child Custody Case Exposes US Wartime Abuses
Click to expand Image US special operations forces conduct combat operations in southeast Afghanistan, May 2019. © 2019 Sgt. Jaerett Engeseth/US Army On September 5, 2019, US armed forces and Afghan...
View ArticleGovernments Should Commit to Fossil Fuel Phase Out at COP27
Click to expand Image Community leaders from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice rally at COP27 for a swift, just and equitable phaseout of fossil fuels, November 15, 2022. © 2022 Hugo...
View ArticleUS: Child Welfare System Harms Families
(New York) – Child welfare systems in the United States too often treat poverty as the basis for charges of neglect and decisions to remove children from their parents, Human Rights Watch and the...
View ArticleFIFA/Qatar: Migrant Workers Call for Compensation for Abuses
(Beirut) – Migrant workers and their families are demanding compensation from FIFA and Qatar authorities for abuses, including unexplained deaths, that workers suffered preparing for the 2022 FIFA...
View ArticleLandmines: Boost Support for Global Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image Members of a special demining unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine searching for landmines in Horenka, Kyiv oblast, May 27, 2022. © 2022 Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Covid-19 Used as Pretext to Seal Border
(Seoul) – The North Korean government has substantially increased security along its northern border, using Covid-19 as the justification, further restricting travel and trade, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleUS: Reject Texas Border Militarization
Click to expand Image People gather at a press conference on Operation Lone Star outside the Customs and Border Protection office in Washington, DC on November 15, 2022. © 2022 Kristine Jones...
View ArticleHong Kong Seeks to Redefine Human Rights in South Korea
Click to expand Image Members of Hong Kong 7s at the end of a match at the HSBC World Rugby Seven Series at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada, September 2021. © 2021 Artur Widak/NurPhoto...
View ArticlePhilippines Undercounts Recent ‘Drug War’ Deaths
Click to expand Image The mother of a "drug war" victim holds his portrait in her home in Caloocan City, Philippines, March 2022. © 2022 Eloisa Lopez/Reuters The Philippine National Police (PNP) on...
View ArticleTurkey Pushes Afghans Back at Iran Border
Click to expand Image Migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, queue for lunch at a deportation center in the city of Van, eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. August 22, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Emrah...
View ArticleUS State Readies First Anti-Transgender Bill of 2023
Click to expand Image Human Rights Campaign round table discussion on anti-transgender laws in Nashville, Tennessee, May 21, 2021. © 2021 Mark Humphrey/AP Photo Just one day after the midterm...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Draft Law Threatens Independent Groups
Click to expand Image The Kyrgyzstan flag is raised at Ala-Too Square, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 3, 2022. © 2022 Vladimir Voronin / AP (Bishkek, November 18, 2022) – The Kyrgyz government has...
View ArticleUN Decision to Advance Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
Click to expand Image UN member countries address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, September 25, 2021. © 2021 Kena Betancur/Pool Photo via...
View ArticleSri Lanka Should Free Detained Students
Click to expand Image A protester shouts slogans against the detention of two student leaders under Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act, Colombo, November 18, 2022. © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena/AP...
View ArticleIndia: Serious Concerns Raised at UN Rights Review
Click to expand Image Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, June 13, 2022. © 2022 Keystone/Valentin Flauraud (New York) – The...
View ArticleQatar: FIFA World Cup Opens Without Remedy for Migrants
Click to expand Image © 2022 Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Qatar and FIFA, on the eve of the World Cup, have not committed to remedy abuses and unexplained deaths of migrant workers who made the event...
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