Burkina Faso: TV News Broadcasts Suspended
Click to expand Image A television shows the cut signal of the France 24 channel, hours after Burkina Faso’s military government suspended the channel on March 27, 2023. © 2023 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP...
View ArticleUN General Assembly Seeks World Court Ruling on Climate Change
Click to expand Image Vanuatu's Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau speaks prior to a vote on a resolution aimed at fighting global warming, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, March 29,...
View ArticleNew Nepal Police Chief Has Questions to Answer on Torture
Click to expand Image Nepalese youth clash with police as they protest outside Federal Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 14, 2021. © 2021 Rojan Shrestha/NurPhoto via AP Photo The Nepal...
View ArticleUkraine: International Justice Response
Click to expand Image A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron and Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleTaliban Expand Civil Society Crackdown
Click to expand Image Mortaza Behboudi. © Private Mortaza Behboudi arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 5, intending to do what journalists do – cover the story. Instead, the French-Afghan dual...
View ArticleTanzania Undermines Right to Health of Maasai Community
Click to expand Image Maasai people walk past the health facility in Msomera village, Handeni, Tanzania, on July 15, 2022. © 2022 AFP/Getty Images As United States Vice President Kamala Harris visits...
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Dissolves Political Parties
Click to expand Image Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw, September 19, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Myanmar’s military junta announced this week that the National League for Democracy (NLD) is among 40 political...
View ArticleFrance, EU: Raise Rights During Top-Level China Visit
Click to expand Image France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, December 12, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Michel...
View ArticleNamibian Communities Deserve a Say in German Reparations Deal
Click to expand Image Chiefs of the Nama and Ovaherero peoples during the annual ‘reparations walk’ in Swakopmund, Namibia, in April 2022, calling for reparations for the ongoing impact of the...
View ArticleDR Congo: Rampant Intercommunal Violence in West
Click to expand Image Bandundu’s Malebo market turned into a camp hosting displaced people despite a Congolese government attempt to close it. © 2022 Venance Kalenga/Human Rights Watch (Kinshasa) –...
View ArticleTanzania Undermines Right to Health of Maasai Community
Click to expand Image Maasai people walk past the health facility in Msomera village, Handeni, Tanzania, on July 15, 2022. © 2022 AFP/Getty Images As United States Vice President Kamala Harris visits...
View ArticleRussia’s Security Service Arrests American Reporter
Russia’s Federal Security Service has arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on “suspicion of espionage in the interests of the American government,” and a court has ordered him to...
View ArticleSwiss 'Senior Women' Take Government to Court over Climate Change
Click to expand Image A group from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association hold banners outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France March 29, 2023. © 2023 Emma...
View ArticleUN Paints Bleak Picture of Rights in Sri Lanka
Click to expand Image Women hold portraits of family members who went missing during Sri Lanka’s civil war that ended in 2009, during a demonstration in Colombo, December 5, 2022. © 2022 Ishara S....
View ArticleKosovo: War Crimes Trial to Begin in The Hague
(The Hague, March 31, 2023) – The trial of the former Kosovo leader Hashim Thaçi and three others on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity highlights the ongoing need for justice 24 years...
View ArticleSex Testing Rules Harm Women Athletes
(New York) – Women track and field athletes will be subjected to tight surveillance based on gender stereotypes under a new set of global regulations, the latest in a series of arbitrary and...
View ArticleBangladesh: Halt ‘Pilot’ Plan to Return Rohingya
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees shout slogans against repatriation at Unchiprang camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 15, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Dar Yasin (Bangkok) – Bangladesh...
View ArticleRape Survivor Testifies Publicly in Guinea Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Fatoumata Barry testifying at the trial for the September 28, 2009 Stadium Massacre in Conakry, Guinea on March 15, 2023. © 2023 Abdoulaye Bella Diallo “I prefer to come in...
View ArticleGuatemala: End Arbitrary Exclusion of 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 ArticleThailand: Don’t Return Chinese Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, also known as the Mayflower Church, leave from the Nongprue police station on their way to Pattaya Provincial Court in Pattaya,...
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