Mali: Security Forces Use Excessive Force at Protests
Click to expand Image Protesters with the Mouvement du 5 Juin - Rassemblement des Forces Patriotiques (M5-RFP), barricade roads in Mali’s capital, Bamako, on Friday, July 10, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleDR Congo: Ensure Credible Probe of Bodies Found in River
Click to expand Image From left to right: members from the UDPS political party Héritier Mpiana, Mardoché Matanda, and Dodo Ntumba. Their bodies were recovered from the Lubumbashi river in the...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Don’t Return Asylum Seeker to Uzbekistan
Click to expand Image Bobomurod Abdullaev, May 7, 2018. © RFE/RL Uzbek Service (Berlin) – Kyrgyz authorities should reject a request to extradite the independent Uzbek journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev...
View ArticleA Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States
Click to expand Image Police officers wait while people experiencing homelessness collect their belongings during a sweep of their encampment under a San Francisco, California freeway, March 1, 2016....
View ArticleUS: 14 Recommendations for Fundamental Police Reform
Click to expand Image Police officers wait while people experiencing homelessness collect their belongings during a sweep of their encampment under a San Francisco, California freeway, March 1, 2016....
View ArticleBangladesh Police Kill A Retired Army Officer
Click to expand Image A Bangladeshi woman stands next to a mural displaying a portrait of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, left, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 30, 2018. © 2018 AP...
View ArticleKazakhstan Activist Gets Criminal Record for Losing Cool with Police
Asya Tulesova is a Kazakhstan activist who gained notoriety after she was jailed for 15 days in 2019 for holding a poster during the Almaty marathon saying “You can’t run from the truth”. This week a...
View ArticleYemen: Houthis Kill, Expel Ethiopian Migrants
(Beirut) – Houthi forces in April 2020 forcibly expelled thousands of Ethiopian migrants from northern Yemen using Covid-19 as a pretext, killing dozens and forcing them to the Saudi border, Human...
View ArticleColombia: Indigenous Kids at Risk of Malnutrition, Death
(New York) – The Covid-19 pandemic and related lockdown are making it even harder for the Wayuu, an indigenous group in Colombia and Venezuela, to survive, Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins...
View ArticleMyanmar: Revise Election Broadcast Rules
Click to expand Image Members of the Union Election Commission wear face masks during a press conference, announcing that general elections in Myanmar will proceed as planned in November despite...
View ArticleIndia: New Reports of Extrajudicial Killings in Kashmir
Click to expand Image Paramilitary soldiers at a temporary check point in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, August 5, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Dar Yasin (New York) – The Indian authorities should...
View ArticleHaiti: Football Sex Abuse Case Witnesses Threatened
Click to expand Image Women hold up signs demanding justice during the hearing of the president of the Fédération Haïtienne De Football (FHF), Yves Jean-Bart, regarding allegations that he abused...
View ArticleMozambique Should Protect Civilians During Insurgent Fight
Click to expand Image A man walks by the main entrance to the city on March 8, 2018 in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique. © 2018 Adrien Barbier/AFP via Getty Images Mozambique’s authorities should ensure...
View ArticleHorrific Video Shows Cameroon Killing
“Fine play,” a pidgin English expression for “well done.” That’s what an alleged separatist fighter can be heard saying as the throat of a woman is cut with a machete. Click to expand Image A...
View ArticleThailand: Drop Charges, Release Student Activist
Click to expand Image Thai student activist Parit Chiwarak was arrested on August 14, 2020, and charged with sedition for his role in a peaceful pro-democracy protest. © 2020 Private (Bangkok) – Thai...
View ArticleEthiopia: Opposition Figures Held Without Charge
Click to expand Image Ethiopia's police officers watch over a foot bridge as they patrol the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 21, 2018. © 2018 Reuters (Nairobi) –Ethiopian authorities have...
View ArticleColombia: Seek Ex-Paramilitary Commander’s Extradition
Click to expand Image Colombian paramilitary warlord Salvatore Mancuso is escorted by US DEA agents on May 13, 2008 upon his arrival to Opa-locka, Florida. © AP Photo/Alan Diaz (New York) – The...
View ArticleTop Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Thai police arrested a prominent student activist for involvement in a peaceful July protest, the largest since 2014; profound courage from pro-democracy demonstrators...
View ArticleEgypt: Spate of ‘Morality’ Prosecutions of Women
Click to expand Image Egyptian influencers Hanin Hossam and Mawadda al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violating public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok in...
View ArticleRwanda: 6 Months On, No Justice for Kizito Mihigo
Click to expand Image Kizito Mihigo speaking to the media in Kigali on April 15, 2014 after nine days in incommunicado detention. In an audio recording released after his death, Mihigo says he was...
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