Turkey Approves New Coal Mining to Feed Power Plants
Click to expand Image Police used water cannon and teargas against local people and environmental activists who protested against the destruction of the Akbelen forest in Turkey’s western province of...
View ArticleAngola: Grave Police Abuses Against Activists
Click to expand Image People hold up a sign that reads “A country badly governed” during a march against rising fuel prices and the end of street vending in Luanda, Angola, June 17, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleTanzania: Critics of Port Deal Arrested
Click to expand Image A crane arranges containers at the Port of Zanzibar, Tanzania, July 19, 2012. © 2012 Thomas Mukoya/Reuters (Nairobi) – Tanzania authorities have detained or threatened at least...
View ArticleCluster Munitions: South Sudan Accedes to Global Ban
Click to expand Image Clearance operator from DCA clearing an area suspected of being contaminated by explosive remnants of war in Pajok, South Sudan in February 2023. © 2023 Rasmus Emil Gravesen/DCA...
View ArticleIn Sri Lanka, Chaotic Social Security Reform Denies People’s Rights
Click to expand Image People walk on Pettah Street in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 3, 2023. © 2023 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP Last month, Sri Lanka’s electricity company cut power to...
View ArticleEgypt: Electricity Cutbacks Threaten Rights
Click to expand Image A child looks at a mobile phone during planned load shedding that the government has begun to overcome the pressure on electricity demand due to increased consumption amid a...
View ArticleNepal: IMF Should Help Expand Child Grant Program
Click to expand Image Children write in chalk on the walls of a Saraswati temple on the festival of Saraswati Puja on January 26, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The International...
View ArticleAnother Hot Summer for People with Disabilities in Spain
Click to expand Image Fernando Uceta, who has COPD, uses a portable oxygen concentrator to breathe as he sits on the balcony of his home during the summer heatwave, in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Awaits Justice for Mayom Extrajudicial Killings
Click to expand Image South Sudan's President Salva Kiir arrives at Juba's Presidential Palace, South Sudan, February 3, 2023. © 2023 Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo On August 8, 2022, videos and photographs...
View ArticleVenezuela: Move Ahead with Aid Agreement
Click to expand Image On November 26, 2022, after months of stalled negotiations, representatives of the government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition signed an agreement to increase humanitarian...
View ArticleDeepening Crisis in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
Click to expand Image Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Repression Worsens 2 Years into Taliban Rule
Click to expand Image Afghan women receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 28, 2023. © 2023 Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo (New York) – Taliban authorities...
View ArticleAustralia: Introduce a Human Rights Act
Click to expand Image Activists preparing posters. © Maskot/Getty Images (Sydney) – The Australian government should introduce a national Human Rights Act to better protect the fundamental rights of...
View ArticleEcuador: Presidential Candidate Killed
Click to expand Image Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio waves an Ecuadorian flag during a campaign event at a school before he was shot to death outside the same school in Quito, Ecuador,...
View ArticleViolence against Indigenous People Overshadows Amazon Summit
Click to expand Image Indigenous people demonstrate against acts of violence before the civil and military police stations in Tomé-Açu, state of Pará, Brazil. August 7, 2023. © 2023 Andrea...
View ArticleNiger: Ensure Safety, Rights of Detained President
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protest the military’s detention of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, Niger on July 26, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Military coup leaders in...
View ArticleUN Experts Criticize Nepal’s Transitional Justice Bill
Click to expand Image Flag of the United Nations, February 24, 2020. © 2020 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images United Nations experts have criticized a bill to amend Nepal’s transitional justice...
View ArticleEgypt: Rab’a Massacre Reverberates 10 Years Later
(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have failed for a decade to hold anyone accountable for the largest mass killing in Egypt’s modern history, Human Rights Watch said today. The Rab’a massacre, a likely...
View ArticleHaiti: Surge in Violent Abuses
Killings, kidnappings, and sexual violence by criminal groups in and around Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, have increased dramatically since the start of 2023. The Haitian government has failed to...
View ArticleMiddle East and North Africa: Embrace Social Protection for All
Click to expand Image People wait in line at a bakery in Beirut, Lebanon, July 2022. © 2022 Hussam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – Governments of the Middle East and North Africa...
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