Algeria Shuts Down Its Flagship Rights Group
Shortly after I started my first human rights job in 1986, Amnesty International issued an alert about a group of Algerians sentenced to up to three years in prison for creating the country’s first...
View ArticleDenmark, Sweden Offer Protection to All Women, Girls from Afghanistan
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman carries a child as she disembarks at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, from an SAS aircraft transporting evacuees from Afghanistan on August 22, 2021. © 2021 Mads...
View ArticleUS: Florida Judges Block Youth Abortion Access
Click to expand Image © 2023 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch (Miami) – Judges in the US state of Florida often deny people under age 18 their right to access abortion care, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleHungary Court Closes Door on Transgender Legal Recognition
Click to expand Image An activist waves the transgender flag during a protest at the Presidential Palace in Budapest, Hungary, June 16, 2021. © 2021 Bernadette Szabo/AP Photo In the latest blow to...
View ArticleNo Clarity Over Journalist’s Death in Rwanda
Click to expand Image John Williams Ntwali © 2017 Facebook Three weeks after the suspicious death of John Williams Ntwali, one of Rwanda’s last remaining independent investigative journalists,...
View ArticleOuster of Anti-LGBT Official in Japan Should Prompt Reform
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apologizes for discriminatory remarks about the LGBT community by his former executive secretary at the House of Representatives, in Tokyo, on...
View ArticleEritrea: Crackdown on Draft Evaders’ Families
Click to expand Image Young Eritreans return from a military training academy on August 18, 2019 in Elabered, Eritrea. © 2019 Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Film Festival Returns in London
Click to expand Image Screenshot from the film Woman. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 27th year in London, presents a lineup of 10 award-winning, international documentary films in...
View ArticleUK/EU: Investigate, Sanction Visiting Xinjiang Official
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 (London) – The UK...
View ArticleMozambique: Draft Law Threatens Civil Society Groups
Click to expand Image Representatives of Mozambican civil society groups meet in Inhambane city to discuss the draft law on nonprofit organizations, on February 10, 2023. © 2023 Cesc (Johannesburg) –...
View ArticleThe Perils of Journalism in Cameroon
Click to expand Image Martinez Zogo, left, and Jean Jacques Ola Bebe, right. © 2019 Martinez Zogo and Jean Jacques Ola Bebe The details of Martinez Zogo’s death are gruesome. His body was found in...
View ArticleUS Should Stop Scapegoating Migrants
Click to expand Image A man shows a portrait of Wilmer Tulul in Tzucubal, Guatemala. Wilmer and his cousin Pascual, both 13, were among the dead discovered inside a tractor-trailer near auto salvage...
View ArticleAmerican Bar Association Backs Intersex Autonomy
The American Bar Association (ABA), a membership organization for attorneys in the United States that develops professional ethics codes, has issued a resolution supporting the rights of children with...
View ArticleLibya/US: Rights Concerns in Lockerbie Suspect’s Extradition
Click to expand Image A police officer walks by the wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland where it lay after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270...
View ArticlePhilippines: Next Steps for ICC Probe of Duterte-Era Killings
Click to expand Image Protesters march outside Malacanang palace in Manila, Philippines, June 30, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Aaron Favila (Manila) – A three-judge panel of the International Criminal Court...
View ArticleHong Kong Court Rejects Compulsory Surgery for Trans Men
Click to expand Image Transgender activist Henry Edward Tse speaks to reporters outside of Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, February 6, 2023. © 2023 Anthony Kwan/AP Photo The Court of Final Appeal...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Expands Access to Free Education
Click to expand Image Students attend a class at Mercy School in Juba, South Sudan, on July 8, 2021. © 2021 Andreea Campeanu/Getty Images Last week, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir directed...
View ArticleLBQ+ Women Face Brutal Attacks, Discrimination at Every Turn
Lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ+) women and non-binary people around the world face violence from security forces, family members, and others, along with widespread discrimination that prevents them...
View ArticleUS: New Policy on Autonomous Weapons Flawed
Click to expand Image © 2020 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – A new United States Department of Defense directive concerning development of autonomous weapons systems is an...
View ArticleSome Governments, Companies Take Steps to Protect Children
Click to expand Image A girl studies online at home during Covid-19 school closures in Berlin, Germany, January 8, 2021. © 2021 Kira Hofmann/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Several governments and...
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