Japan: Raise Rights on Trip to Vietnam, Indonesia
Click to expand Image Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence Wednesday, September 16, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. © Carl...
View ArticleMauritania: Free Activists Held on Blasphemy Charges
Click to expand Image (Beirut, October 19, 2020) – Mauritania’s government should drop charges of blasphemy and insulting Islam against eight political activists and release the five held in pretrial...
View ArticleCameroon: Opposition Leaders, Supporters Detained
Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private (Nairobi) – Cameroonian security forces fired tear gas and water...
View ArticleCuba’s Government Targets Social Media Influencers
Click to expand Image Screenshot from a video showing Ruhama Fernández. © YouTube/Ruhama Fernández Cuba’s government has a well-documented history of harassing dissidents, journalists, and opposition...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Horrific Pretrial Detention System
Click to expand Image Illustration of a North Korean pre-trial detention and investigation facility (kuryujang) based on former detainees’ testimonies told to Human Rights Watch and the illustrator's...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia to Host Women’s Summit While Women Activists Sit Behind Bars
Click to expand Image Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul had been on hunger strike for six days before Saudi authorities finally allowed her parents to visit on August 31, according...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Forced Anal Exams in Homosexuality Prosecutions
Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) (Colombo) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people to forced physical examinations since 2017 in...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Alleged Child Offenders Face Death Sentences
Click to expand Image Men hold placards bearing portraits of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution sparked demonstrations in 2016 by the country's minority Shia citizens...
View ArticleDR Congo: Wanted Warlord Preys on Civilians
(Goma) – Congolese authorities have not arrested a rebel commander wanted for multiple crimes under a June 2019 warrant even as his forces have continued to carry out summary killings, rapes and sexual...
View ArticleKiller Robots: Precedent for a Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image Following the lead of legal precedent, a new treaty on killer robots should ensure meaningful human control over the use of force and ban weapons operating without such control....
View ArticleWhen Will Iraq Start Protecting Journalists?
Click to expand Image The office of Dijlah TV station in Baghdad was badly damaged after it was torched by protesters on August 31, 2020. Photo circulated on social media. A well-known TV station in...
View ArticleA Domestic Violence Case Goes to Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court
Click to expand Image Cartoon about Domestic Violence by Tatiana Zelenskaya. © Open Line NGO Gulzhan Pasanova could spend 10 years in prison because in defending herself from her abusive husband, he...
View ArticleUS: Protect Peaceful Assemblies; Limit Use of Force
Click to expand Image Federal officers run after dispersing protesters in Portland, Oregon, July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Noah Berger City and state officials in the United States should review...
View ArticleTurkey: Justice for Rights Lawyer’s Killing
Click to expand Image Tahir Elçi, the president of Diyarbakir Bar Association and human rights lawyer, speaks to the media shortly before being shot dead in Diyarbakir, Turkey November 28, 2015 . ©...
View ArticleCanada: Climate Crisis Toll on First Nations’ Food Supply
Climate change is taking a growing toll on First Nations in Canada, depleting food sources and affecting health. Canada is contributing to the climate crisis, which acutely affects Indigenous peoples...
View ArticleThailand: Outspoken TV Channel Banned
Click to expand Image © 2020 Voice TV (Bangkok) – The Thai government’s shutdown of the outspoken Voice TV channel misuses Thailand’s emergency decree to censor the media, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleUS, Australia Hit New Lows on Refugee Resettlement
Click to expand Image Abdisellam Hassen Ahmed, a Somali refugee who had been stuck in limbo after President Donald Trump temporarily banned refugee entries, walks with his wife Nimo Hashi, and his...
View ArticlePope Francis Supports Same-Sex Civil Unions
Click to expand Image Pope Francis attends a inter-religious ceremony for peace in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, in Rome, October 20, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia Pope Francis has...
View ArticleLebanon: Flawed Domestic Blast Investigation
Click to expand Image Aftermath of the explosion in Beirut’s port that devastated the city, killing almost 200 people, injuring more than 6,000, and leaving 300,000 people without shelter. © 2020...
View ArticleEgypt: 49 Executions In 10 Days
Click to expand Image A satellite photograph of Scorpion Prison taken in September 2016. Inmates suffer abuses in secret and are denied most access to the outside world. Satellite imagery. © 2016...
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