France: Dissolving Anti-Discrimination Group Threatens Rights
Click to expand Image French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin delivers a speech on the state of terrorism threat at the French General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) in Paris, Monday Aug....
View ArticleUS: House Votes to End Marijuana Prohibition
Click to expand Image Supporters hold flags near the Capitol in Washington, DC, during a rally in favor of marijuana legalization on April 24, 2017. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon (Washington, DC) – The...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Scrap Bill Shielding North Korean Government
Click to expand Image People watch a news program showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South...
View ArticleCuba: Covid-19 Rules Used to Intensify Repression
Click to expand Image Artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Anamelys Ramos present a habeas corpus regarding detained musician Denis Solís, in Havana, on November 10, 2020. Otero Alcántara and Ramos...
View ArticleAfghan Children Need Full Access to Education
Click to expand Image Girls study in a tent held up by a tree in a government school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Forty-one percent of all schools in Afghanistan do not have buildings and even when they do,...
View ArticleBelarus Escalates Crackdown on Independent Journalism
Click to expand Image Young demonstrators during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, 6 December 2020. © 2020 The Associated Press On December...
View ArticleEgypt: World Bank Funds Health but Neglects Jailed Doctors
Click to expand Image A nurse helps a colleague put on personal protective equipment at the 6th of October Central Hospital, an isolation hospital for Covid-19 patients, in Giza, Egypt, in July 2020....
View ArticleGreece: Lead Poisoning Concerns in New Migrant Camp
Click to expand Image A girl from Syria living in Mavrovouni camp watches the Greek military search for unexploded munitions after she and thousands of other migrants had already moved to the site. ©...
View ArticleBurundi: UN Should Ensure Regular Rights Briefings
Click to expand Image The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Burundi on July 29, 2016 calling for the deployment of unarmed police officers to Burundi to support UN human rights...
View ArticleLighting Up Hope for Human Rights
Click to expand Image Niagara Falls shines blue for Human Rights Day. © Niagara Falls Illumination Board (New York) – Human Rights Watch has arranged for 10 landmarks to shine bright blue on December...
View ArticleUS Environmental Agency Greenlights Neurotoxic Pesticide
Click to expand Image A 12-year-old girl picks cucumbers on a Michigan farm. © 2009 ROMANO Last week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed interim decision that...
View ArticleNo Equality in Sport Until We Stop Policing Women’s Bodies
Click to expand Image Caster Semnya wins the women's 800m during the IAAF Doha Diamond League 2019 at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, May 3, 2019. © 2019 Jiro Mochizuki/Image of Sport...
View ArticleAustralia: Ensure Justice for Alleged War Crimes
Click to expand Image Chief of the Australian Defence Force Gen. Angus Campbell delivers the findings from the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry, in Canberra,...
View ArticleChina: Big Data Program Targets Xinjiang’s Muslims
Click to expand Image © 2020 Badiucao for Human Rights Watch (New York) – A big data program for policing in China’s Xinjiang region arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention, Human...
View ArticleMyanmar: Arrest for Alleging Voter Intimidation
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards that read "Oppose unfair action of election! Investigate voting fraud around the country!" in a rally condemning the November 8 general election results...
View ArticleEcuador: High Levels of Sexual Violence in Schools
(New York) – Thousands of children and adolescents have suffered school-related sexual violence in Ecuador since 2014, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While Ecuador has taken...
View ArticleCorruption Means More than Bribes and Payoffs
The recent passing of James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005, offers a moment to reflect on global progress in the fight against corruption. That his 1996 speech decrying the...
View ArticleUrgently Waive Intellectual Property Rules for Vaccine
Click to expand Image Delegates speaks before a special meeting of the General Council Preparatory Committee on Trade Facilitation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva November...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Uses Celebrities to Whitewash Abuses
Click to expand Image People spend the evening at the Diriyah Oasis amusement park in Diriyah on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 13, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Amr Nabil The Covid-19...
View ArticleLebanon: Health Workers’ Safety Neglected during Covid-19
Click to expand Image A doctor, wearing protective gear, handles a test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Rafik Hariri University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon October 1, 2020. © 2020...
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