Malawi: Refugees, Including Children, Forcibly Relocated
(Johannesburg) – The Malawi government has detained and forcibly relocated refugees and asylum seekers across the country without regard for their basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleVietnam: Free Anti-Corruption Campaigner
Click to expand Image Dang Dang Phuoc © 2019 Private (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges and immediately release the anti-corruption campaigner Dang Dang Phuoc, Human...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Referendum Poses Risks
Click to expand Image President Faustin-Archange Touadéra greets supporters after highest court confirmed his re-election at his party headquarter in Bangui, Central Africa Republic January 18, 2021....
View ArticleSenegal: Violent Crackdown On Opposition, Dissent
Click to expand Image Supporters of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko clash with security forces on June 2, 2023, after Sonko was sentenced to prison in Dakar, Senegal. © 2023 REUTERS/Zohra...
View ArticleRole of Fossil Fuels Absent at Plastics Treaty Negotiations
Click to expand Image Campaigners and waste pickers from around the world holding a sign reading, “plastic puts 218 million people at risk of more severe flooding,” outside the UNESCO Headquarters in...
View ArticleIraq: Political Infighting Blocking Reconstruction of Sinjar
Click to expand Image A general view of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq August 13, 2014. © 2014 Reuters (Beirut) – The reconstruction of the Sinjar district in northern Iraq, which was heavily damaged...
View ArticleMigration Paranoia Jeopardizes EU Trade and Development Scheme
Click to expand Image Swedish EU Presidency decorations, Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2023. © 2023 European Union European governments’ obsession with curbing migration is poisoning an ever-growing...
View ArticleNigeria: No Justice for Civilians Killed in Airstrike
Click to expand Image Mass grave in Doma LGA, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, where 31 people who died from the airstrike are buried. Photo taken on March 14, 2023. © 2023 Anietie Ewang/Human Rights Watch...
View ArticlePalestinian Forum Highlights Threats of Autonomous Weapons
Click to expand Image Two guns sit atop a guard tower along with surveillance cameras pointed at the Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, October 6, 2022. © 2022 Mahmoud Ilean/AP Images In late May,...
View ArticleAngolan Police Fatally Fire on Fuel-Price Protest
Click to expand Image Angolan riot police take position after protests over wages in Luanda on August 25, 2022. © 2022 John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images Angolan police shot and killed at least five...
View ArticlePoland: New Law to Bar People from Public Office
Click to expand Image Pro-democratic march in Warsaw gathered up to 500k participants (according to organisers), led by Donald Tusk, former Prime Minister of Poland and President of the European...
View ArticleGermany, Namibia Need a Rights-Respecting Reparations Process
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 ArticleUzbekistan Should Free Imprisoned Lawyer
Click to expand Image Defendants listen to the verdict in their trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main city in Karakalpakstan, at a court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on...
View ArticleAmerican Churches Launch Initiative to End Israel’s Apartheid
Click to expand Image Israeli and Palestine activists hold a banner during a protest to block the new Route 4370 Israeli highway near the Palestinian town of Anata, January 23, 2019. © 2019 Ilia...
View ArticleTop Russian Human Rights Defender on Trial
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov protesting Russia's abusive war in Ukraine at the Red Square in Moscow, April 2022. His poster reads, 'Our unwillingness to know the truth and our silence turn us into...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Pro Golf Merger “Sportswashes” Abuses
Click to expand Image Golfers walk on the 16th hole during the LIV Golf Invitational at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, October 16, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleOlympics: Act on Sexual Abuse Complaints by Indian Athletes
Click to expand Image Indian wrestlers, from right, Bajrang Punia, Sangita Phogat and Vinesh Phogat, ahead of their protest march towards the newly inaugurated parliament, in New Delhi, India, May 28,...
View ArticleWildfire Smoke in North America Threatens Pregnancy Rights
Click to expand Image Wildfire smoke covers the New York City skyline, June 7, 2023. © 2023 STRMX/AP Images Canada’s wildfires have led to unpleasantly hazy skies and unhealthy air across large...
View ArticleJustice Denied for Rwanda Genocide Victims
Click to expand Image Félicien Kabuga during his Initial Appearance at The Hague on November 11, 2020. © 2020 Leslie Hondebrink-Hermer/UN-IRMCT A United Nations tribunal in the Hague this week...
View ArticleEU: Press Vietnam to End Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image Twelve Vietnamese rights activists and bloggers currently detained for exercising their basic rights. Top row from left to right: Bui Tuan Lam, Le Manh Ha, Dinh Van Hai, Bui Van...
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