Pakistan: Mass Arrests Target Political Opposition
Click to expand Image Police detain a supporter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan during clashes, in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 12, 2023. © 2023 W.K. Yousafzai/AP Photo (New York) –...
View ArticleIndonesia: Student Media at Risk
Click to expand Image Student journalists pose under a street sign in Pekanbaru, Riau, named for their magazine, Bahana, which played an important role in 1998 when local groups sought a bigger say in...
View ArticlePoland: Proposed Law Threatens Children’s Rights
Click to expand Image People attend a “Stop Lex Czarnek” protest at the Main Square in Krakow, Poland on February 15, 2022. © 2022 Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) – Poland’s ruling Law...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Backsliding on Religious Freedom Promises
Click to expand Image Muslim worshippers pray during Friday prayers at the Khazrati Imam Mosque in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, October 22, 2021. © 2021 Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP The Uzbek government is...
View ArticleEU: Flawed Reliance on Audits for Raw Materials Rules
Click to expand Image European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis and EU Commissioner Thierry Breton during a press conference on EU Critical Raw Materials Act and EU Competitiveness in...
View ArticleMexico: Public Accountability, Privacy Under Threat
Click to expand Image A police officer walks outside the offices of the National Institute for Transparency and Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) in Mexico City, Mexico. © 2016 Archivo...
View ArticleVietnam: Activist Charged With “Propaganda”
Click to expand Image Bui Tuan Lam at Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review session at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, February 2014. © 2014 Private (Bangkok) – A Vietnamese rights...
View ArticleCambodia: Land Rights Activists Face Baseless Charges
Click to expand Image Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community (CCFC) supporters march to the Ministry of Interior in Phnom Penh on May 22, 2023, to demand the release of three of their members charged...
View ArticleThailand: Lao Refugee Gunned Down
(New York) – Thai authorities should immediately and impartially investigate the killing of an exiled Lao political activist, Bounsuan Kitiyano, Human Rights Watch said today.On May 17, 2023,...
View ArticleUniversal Social Security Can Reduce Poverty, Inequality
Click to expand Image Dilli Haat open air market in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images (New York) – Governments and international lenders like the International Monetary Fund...
View ArticleCambodia: Casino Union Leader Chhim Sithar and Strikers Convicted
Click to expand Image NagaWorld's union leader, Chhim Sithar, sits in a prisoner van outside the municipal court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 25, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleNigeria: New Government Should Improve on Human Rights
Click to expand Image Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) and Nigeria's newly declared winner of 2023 presidential election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (L) pose for a photograph in Daura, Nigeria, March 1,...
View ArticleFresh Details on Russia’s Forcible Transfer of Ukrainian Children
Click to expand Image Kherson Children’s House, an orphanage from which Russian forces allegedly took 49 children in Kherson, Ukraine, November 27, 2022. © 2022 Chris McGrath/Getty Images The Russian...
View ArticleUS Sues Online Learning Company Over Students’ Data Privacy
Click to expand Image © Andrea Devia Nuño, Hero Studios The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made history by suing an online learning company, Edmodo, for collecting and using...
View ArticleJapan: ‘Hostage Justice’ System Violates Rights
(Tokyo) – Japan’s system of “hostage justice” denies criminal suspects the rights to due process and a fair trial, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 101-page report, “Japan’s...
View ArticleEgypt: Pretrial Detention Renewals by Video
Click to expand Image The courthouse at the new Badr Prison in Badr city, 65 kms east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, during a government-guided tour for the media, January 16, 2022. © 2022 Khaled...
View ArticleChad: Still No Reparations for Hissène Habré’s Victims
Click to expand Image Hissène Habré’s victims march for reparations, Ndjaména, Chad © Association of Victims of the Crimes of Hissène Habré, May 2022 (Dakar) – The victims of the late Chadian...
View ArticleNamibian Court Recognizes Foreign Same-Sex Marriages
Click to expand Image A rainbow LGBT pride flag. © Wikimedia Commons Namibia’s Supreme Court has issued a long-awaited ruling recognizing same-sex marriages performed abroad. The ruling is a victory...
View ArticleCluster Munitions: Renew Global Momentum for Ban
Click to expand Image Collected remnants of Russian cluster munition rockets that were used to attack the city of Kharkiv, at a storage area in Kharkiv, Ukraine, December 22, 2022. © 2022 Evgeniy...
View ArticleDR Congo: Peaceful Protests Violently Repressed
(Kinshasa) – Police violently dispersed peaceful protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 20, 2023, arresting dozens of people and seriously injuring at least 30,...
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