Guatemala: Review Decision to Bar Presidential Candidates
Click to expand Image Supporters of the Liberation of the People (MLP) political party protest that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal denied the candidacy of their vice president hopeful Jordan Rodas in...
View ArticleNigeria’s Elections Remain Risky for Many Citizens
Click to expand Image Independent National Electoral Commission officials sort and count ballots at a polling station in Kano during Nigeria's presidential and general election, February 25, 2023. ©...
View ArticleAustralia: Protect Data from Foreign Interference
Click to expand Image Australian Parliament in Canberra at sunrise. © Kinson C Photography via Getty Images (Sydney, February 28, 2023) – The Australian government should take concrete steps to...
View ArticleSatire in Congo is No Laughing Matter
Click to expand Image Junior Nkole, January 8, 2023. © 2023 Private On February 10, government security agents arrested the satirical comedian Junior Nkole in central Kinshasa in the latest attack...
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Extends Martial Law
Click to expand Image Police block a road leading to City Hall as protesters approach on February 13, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. © 2021 Hkun Lat/Getty Images On February 22, Myanmar’s junta announced...
View ArticleBahrain: 3 On Trial for Religious Dialogue
(Beirut) – Three members of a cultural society in Bahrain are scheduled to go to trial on February 28, 2023, for merely exercising their right to free expression and belief, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleEgypt: Release Prison Population Figures
Click to expand Image Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entrances of Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, August 2, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File (Beirut) – The Egyptian...
View ArticleTrinidad and Tobago: Bring Home Nationals from Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image A Trinidadian boy, then 16, looks out a window in the Houry detention center in northeast Syria on June 18, 2019. He was one of eight family members brought to Syria by his...
View ArticleBiden ‘Asylum Ban’ Rule Would Send Thousands to Danger
Click to expand Image An asylum seeker in Tijuana, Mexico, tries to use the new US Customs and Border Protection mobile app CBP One, January 18, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images US President Joe Biden...
View ArticleDon’t Rush to Normalize Relations with Assad’s Syria
Click to expand Image Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, third right, meets with a delegation representing various Arab parliaments in Damascus, February 26, 2023. © 2023 Syrian Presidency via...
View ArticleCan the G20 Agree on Human Rights?
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at an East Asia Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Cambodia, August 5, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleIndian Government Moves to Remedy Its Violation of Children’s Privacy
Click to expand Image Children studies online using borrowed mobile phones in Mumbai, India, during school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. October 16, 2020. © 2020 Ashish Vaishnav/Sipa via AP...
View ArticleNew Frontex Director Offers Chance for Reform
Click to expand Image New Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard (FRONTEX) Hans Leijtens attends a press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on January 19, 2023....
View ArticleInsulin Manufacturer to Finally Lower Prices in the US
Click to expand Image Eli Lilly insulin, Humalog, September 13, 2019. © 2019 Simon Dawson/Reuters Following years of pressure, United States-based drug manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company announced...
View ArticleUnprotected by Labor Law, Child Farmworkers Risk Health and Lives
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A devastating new investigation by the New York Times found migrant children across the...
View ArticleCluster Munitions: Nigeria Ratifies Global Ban
Click to expand Image The remnants of a 9M27K-series cluster munition rocket after it deployed its submunitions in the Maram camp for the displaced near the village of Kafr Jales in the Idlib...
View ArticleGeorgia: Reconsider Mikheil Saakashvili’s Release on Medical Grounds
Click to expand Image Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili seen via video link from a clinic during a court hearing to consider his request to defer his six-year sentence for health...
View ArticleAngola: Hundreds Homeless in Forced Evictions, Demolitions
Click to expand Image A woman carries her child after their house was demolished in Zango 3 area of Luanda, Angola. © 2023 Private (Johannesburg) – The Angolan authorities should immediately suspend...
View ArticleDR Congo/France: Prioritize Rights Issues for Macron’s Visit
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi at the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, November 12, 2019. © 2019 Christian Liewig/Abaca/Sipa USA via...
View ArticleUN Describes Worsening Afghanistan Rights Crisis
Click to expand Image A woman at the site of a suicide attack on an education center claimed by a group affiliated with the Islamic State, in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 1, 2022. © 2022 Ebrahim...
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