Kyrgyzstan: Expelled Journalist should be allowed to return from Russia
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) – Bishkek’s city court ruled on November 23 to...
View ArticleJapan Football Association President Sidelines Rights Issues in Qatar
Click to expand Image Japanese national soccer team's head coach Hajime Moriyasu and Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima attend a news conference to name the squad for the 2022 Qatar...
View ArticleRussia: Expanded 'Gay Propaganda' Ban Progresses Toward Law
Click to expand Image Participants in a LGBT community rally in central Moscow, Russia hold a rainbow flag that reads, "Love. Don't make war", as a policeman stops them, May 30, 2015. ©2015...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority Muzzles Call for Reform, Elections
Click to expand Image Demonstrators carry pictures of activist Nizar Banat during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on the same day he was beaten to death in Palestinian Authority custody,...
View ArticleUS Environmental Agency Needs a Reproductive Justice Hero
Click to expand Image Nancy Pedroza, 27, who is pregnant, receives support from Nichollette Jones, her doula, in Fort Worth, Texas, April 7, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare A letter signed by 28...
View ArticleChina: Respect Right to Peaceful Protest
Click to expand Image Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on November 27, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo (New York) – The Chinese government should...
View ArticleNepal: Dengue Surge Exposes Climate Risk
Click to expand Image A patient sits on her bed after being admitted with dengue at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kathmandu. © 2022 Skanda Gautam/SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via...
View ArticleIraq: No Justice for Protester Deaths
Click to expand Image Young women gathered in Tahrir Square commemorating youth killed during the early weeks of the Tishreen uprising, December 2019, Baghdad, Iraq © 2019 Ivor Prickett/Panos Pictures...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Seeks New Executive Director
(New York) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking a new Executive Director to lead the organization’s global human rights work and advance its endeavor to secure justice, dignity, and freedom for all....
View ArticlePakistan Province Bans Film about Trans Character
Click to expand Image A woman walks past a promotional board for the film "Joyland" in Lahore, Pakistan, November 16, 2022. © 2022 K.M. Chaudary/AP Photo On November 17, the government of Punjab,...
View ArticleFirst World Cup in Arab World Tarnished by Migrant Worker Abuses
Click to expand Image Construction workers in Doha, Qatar, November 16, 2022. © 2022 ddp images via AP Photo As a Jordanian, I wanted to be proud that an Arab and Muslim-majority country is hosting...
View ArticleJapanese Trans Woman Wins Workplace Harassment Case
Click to expand Image Panelists at a Tokyo symposium discussing legal issues for transgender people, September 22, 2017. © 2017 KYDPL KYODO/AP Photo The government in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture has...
View ArticleSyria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers
Click to expand Image Fadwa Mahmoud holds portraits of her son and husband, who disappeared in Syria in 2012, in Berlin, Germany. © 2021 REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (Beirut) – United Nations member...
View ArticleQatar World Cup Chief Publicly Admits High Migrant Death Tolls
Click to expand Image The remains of a Nepali migrant worker who lost his life in Qatar being delivered from the airport to his family members in rural Nepal. © 2022 Private Hassan al-Thawadi,...
View ArticleUzbekistan’s Prosecution of Karakalpakstan Protestors Raises Many Questions
Click to expand Image Uzbekistan security forces fired projected flash/bang grenades at protesters in Kanlykul, Karakalpakstan, July 2022. © 2022 BaseKZ This week, the trial began of 22 people accused...
View ArticleHungary: Data Misused for Political Campaigns
Click to expand Image Voter bombarded with electoral campaign messages, including “szavazz!”, meaning “vote!” in Hungarian. © 2022 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Brussels) – The Hungarian...
View ArticleGhana: Chaining People with Mental Health Conditions Persists
Click to expand Image In one traditional healing center in Ghana, Human Rights Watch found 22 men in a dark, stifling room, all of them with chains, no longer than half a meter, around their ankles....
View ArticleEU Takes Step Towards Banning Plastic Waste Exports
Click to expand Image A man collects items from an illegal dump on November 29, 2020 in Adana, southern Turkey. © 2020 Yasin AKGUL / AFP via Getty Images A Committee of the European Parliament voted...
View ArticleNew EU Migration Plan, Same Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Men detained in Gasr Garabulli, northwestern Libya, after being intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea by the Libyan Coast Guard, May 23 2022. © 2022 Yousef Murad/AP Photo The...
View ArticleRussia: New Restrictions for ‘Foreign Agents’
Click to expand Image On the night before the infamous “foreign agents” law came into force back in 2012, unknown individuals sprayed graffiti reading, “Foreign Agent! ♥ USA” on the buildings hosting...
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