UK Data Shows People with Disabilities Caught in Covid-19 Crosshairs
Click to expand Image A man wears a protective face mask as he drives a mobility scooter in central Leeds on the morning of March 21, 2020. © 2016 OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images The United Kingdom...
View ArticleEthiopian Forces Should Show Restraint at Upcoming Festival
Click to expand Image Armed security forces watch during the Irreecha cultural festival in Bishoftu, Ethiopia on October 2, 2016. © 2016 Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Getty Images Each year, massive crowds...
View ArticleCyprus: Asylum Seekers Summarily Returned
Click to expand Image Cyprus coast guard carrying migrants from a boat from Lebanon interdicted on January 14, 2020. © 2020 Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters (Athens) – Cypriot coast guard forces summarily...
View ArticleUK: Automated Benefits System Failing People in Need
(London) – The United Kingdom government’s rigid insistence on automating Universal Credit threatens the rights of people most at risk of poverty, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. A...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Law Signals Hope for Kuwait’s Women
Click to expand Image The Kuwait city skyline is seen through haze in Kuwait City. © 2016 AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari, File This month, after years of activism, Kuwaiti women’s rights activists won a new...
View ArticleA Human Rights Controversy at the University of Toronto
Click to expand Image Signage at the University of Toronto. © Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto The University of Toronto’s law school allegedly rescinded a job offer for director...
View ArticleArmenia/Azerbaijan: Don’t Attack Civilians
Click to expand Image View of Stepanakert/Khankendi, Nagorno-Karabakh administrative center. © 2016 Thomas Koerbel/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Berlin) – All armed forces fighting over...
View ArticleUS: Vote ‘No’ on Homeland Security Nominee
(Washington, DC) – United States senators should vote no on the nomination of Chad Wolf for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary and instead investigate his alleged involvement in abuses,...
View ArticleIndia: Amnesty International Forced to Halt Work
Click to expand Image Amnesty International India headquarters in Bangalore, India. © 2019 AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi (New York) – Amnesty International India announced that it is halting its work in the...
View ArticleUS: New York Police Planned Assault on Bronx Protesters
New York City police planned the assault and mass arrests of peaceful protesters in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx on June 4, 2020, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today....
View ArticleCalifornia: New Law Protects Children in Police Custody
Click to expand Image A police officer interrogating a youth, using techniques that ultimately pressured the youth to confess to a crime he did not commit. © (Sacramento) – A new California law...
View ArticleEgypt: Security Forces Abuse, Torture LGBT People
(Beirut) – Egyptian police and National Security Agency officers arbitrarily arrest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and detain them in inhuman conditions, systematically subject...
View ArticleGermany: Respect Child Rights in Global Supply Chains
Click to expand Image Child labor in an informal gold mine in Ghana, where health risks are significant. © UNICEF/UNI190047/Quarmyne © (Berlin) – A German law that would require companies to exercise...
View ArticleDR Congo: Take Concrete Steps to End Impunity
Click to expand Image A cross marks graves near the Biaro refugee camp, an estimated 42 kilometers south of Kisangani, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 18, 1997. The discovery of a number...
View ArticleWho Is ‘Happy’ in Xinjiang?
Click to expand Image Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during an event to honor some of those involved in China's fight against Covid-19 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, September 8,...
View ArticleBangladesh: Protesting Rohingya Refugees Beaten
Click to expand Image A man walks past buildings on Bhasan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh on December 19, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Saleh Noman (New York) – Bangladesh...
View ArticleTurkey: Man Dies After Military Custody
Click to expand Image Servet Turgut died on September 30 of injuries incurred while in military custody. Pictured here in his village with his grandchild. © 2020 Private (Istanbul) – A Kurdish man...
View ArticleNew US Bill Would Help People Working in Dangerous Heat
Click to expand Image Farmworkers, considered essential workers under the Covid-19 pandemic, harvest beans in Homestead, Florida, May 12, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Lynne Sladky Many United States...
View ArticleVictory for Acid Attack Campaigners in Nepal
Click to expand Image A woman holds a placard during a demonstration on International Women's Day to protest against inequality and sexual violence, March 8, 2020. © 2020 Sunil Pradhan/Sipa via AP...
View ArticleHarsh Sentences for Alleged Hizb-ut-Tahrir Followers in Russia
Click to expand Image Supreme court appeal hearing held via videoconference, September 2020. © RFE/RL Last week, Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the terrorism-related convictions of 19 men who are all...
View Article