New York Mayor Targets Unhoused Communities
Click to expand Image Residents of an unhoused encampment adjacent to Tompkins Square Park in New York City, NY are arrested on April 6, 2022. © 2022 Karla Ann Cot’/AP Photo This week, New York City...
View ArticleHistoric Moment of First Woman Referee in Men’s World Cup - and in Qatar too
Click to expand Image Pictured are referee Stephanie Frappart, assistant referee Neuza Back, and assistant referee Karen Diaz Medina, alongside Costa Rica's Keylor Navas and Germany's Manuel Neuer...
View ArticleFrance Should Denounce the Expulsion of Salah Hamouri by Israel
Click to expand Image Salah Hamouri. © Elsa Lefort Several NGOs call on French president Emmanuel Macron to act immediately against the expulsion of French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri. The...
View ArticleGovernments Should Prioritize Mental Health Support
Click to expand Image Palestinian children participate in a mental health support session at the Beach refugee camp, in Gaza City, on June 9, 2021. © 2021 Majdi Fathi/AP Photo This December 3, on the...
View ArticlePoland: Lawmaker Faces Charges for Pro-Choice Protest
Click to expand Image Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, a social activist and politician, reads testimony from a child who was molested by a priest during a protest in Warsaw, October 7, 2018. © 2018 Attila...
View ArticleLibya: ICC Reignites Hope for Long-Delayed Justice
Click to expand Image Defaced mural at Central Support Prison in Tarhouna, a facility used by the al-Kaniyat militia during the 2019-2020 conflict to detain, torture, and disappear people. © March...
View ArticleICC: Ensure Victims’ Equal Access to Justice
Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International...
View ArticleIran: State-Backed Hacking of Activists, Journalists, Politicians
Click to expand Image Google apps are displayed on a smartphone. © 2022 Onur Dogman / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Beirut) – Hackers backed by the Iranian government have targeted two Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleUS: Back War Crimes Court in Liberia
Click to expand Image Supporters of George Weah attend a meeting during their party's presidential campaign rally at Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia, Liberia December 23, 2017. © 2017...
View ArticleAustralia: Use Magnitsky-Style Sanctions to Target Abusers
Click to expand Image Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, flanked by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, in Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2022. © Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP (Sydney) – The Australian...
View ArticleMexico: Reject President’s Elections Overhaul
Click to expand Image A voter casts a ballot in Mexico City, June 6, 2021. © 2021 Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via AP (Washington, DC) – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to modify...
View ArticleBan Taliban from the Olympic Movement
Click to expand Image Jiu Jitsu club members look at a wall with posters at their club ahead of a training session in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Tamana Sarwary (New...
View ArticleMyanmar: Junta Sentences 10 Prisoners to Death
Click to expand Image Student Union Cadres demonstrate outside the Myanmar embassy in Nepal against the Myanmar military court death sentence imposed on December 5, 2022, on seven university students...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Case Puts Basic Voting Rights on Trial
Click to expand Image Voting booths on the first day of early voting in Orlando, Florida, October 24, 2022. © 2022 Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via AP Photo Tomorrow the United States Supreme Court will...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Attacks on Energy Grid Threaten Civilians
Click to expand Image Doctors operate with phone flashlights during a power outage in Kyiv. Numerous missile and drone attacks in October and November have deprived millions of Ukrainians of at least...
View ArticleCar Industry Linked to Forced Labor in Xinjiang
Click to expand Image A worker moves aluminum auto parts in central China's Anhui province, March 26, 2022 © WAN SC A new report links the world’s biggest car companies to Chinese government forced...
View ArticleIraq: Activist Imprisoned for Peaceful Criticism of Security Forces
Click to expand Image Hayder Finjan al-Zaidi. © 2022 Private (Beirut) – A criminal court in Baghdad sentenced an activist to three years in prison on December 5, 2022, for alleged criticism of the...
View ArticleUN Member Countries Should Accredit Blocked Human Rights Groups
Click to expand Image The United Nations logo is pictured in front of the United Nations Headquarters building during the 71st United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York,...
View ArticleProposed Japanese Fertility Law Discriminates Against Lesbians, Single Women
Click to expand Image Human rights activists Mamiko Moda and Satoko Nagamura with their son, who they had in Japan using a donor. © 2022 Private A draft law that may be introduced in the Japanese...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Widespread Abuses Under State of Emergency
(New York) – Salvadoran security forces have committed widespread human rights violations since the adoption of a state of emergency approved in late March 2022, in response to a peak in gang violence,...
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