Venezuela: Humanitarian Groups Under Attack
Click to expand Image Children eat lunch at Madre Asunción's community kitchen, which is ran by the NGO Alimenta La Solidaridad, on October 9, 2019 in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. © Leonardo Fernández...
View ArticleQatar: Wage Abuse Action Shortchanges Workers
Click to expand Image Former and current employees of Imperial Trading and Construction Company (ITCC) protest months of delayed and unpaid wages outside the company's headquarters in Qatar. © 2020...
View ArticleUganda: Northern Village May Be Disenfranchised
Click to expand Image Ugandans continue to queue to cast their votes at sunset in the capital Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. © (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (Nairobi, December 22, 2020) –Thousands...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Revise Intelligence Act Amendments
Click to expand Image South Korean President Moon Jae-in, bottom, speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, October 28, 2020. © 2020 Jeon Heon-kyun/Pool Photo via AP (Seoul) – The South...
View ArticleKazakhstan’s Domestic Violence Survivors Push for Legal Protections
Click to expand Image Participants protest against discrimination and gender-based violence during a rally held by members of feminist organizations and social activists in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
View ArticleNicaragua: Law Threatens Free, Fair Elections
Click to expand Image Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega greets soldiers during the oath of the Commander in Chief of the Nicaraguan army General Julio Cesar, at the Revolution square in Managua,...
View ArticleChina: Repression Threatens Winter Olympics
Click to expand Image Photo of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games logo in Zhangjiakou City where the 2022 Winter Olympic Games will take place, September 17, 2020, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei...
View ArticleTurkey: Release Unlawfully Jailed Opposition Politician
Click to expand Image Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been held in Edirne F-type Prison since November 4, 2016. © 2020 Private (Istanbul) –...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Increased Interference in Trade Union Activities
Click to expand Image A protester listens to a speaker during a rally in front of the government building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, October 14, 2020. © 2020 Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Personal Drivers Face Abuse
Click to expand Image Foreign laborers work on the construction of new luxury houses in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, April 2019. © 2019 FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Saudi Arabia...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Rebel Violence Threatens Elections
Click to expand Image Presidential guards stand guard in Bangui, on December 12, 2020, during the opening campaign rally for incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra, seen in the poster, a...
View ArticleRussian Court Sentences Opposition Figure to 2-Year Suspended Sentence
Click to expand Image Yuliya Galyamina holding placard “Down with the Tsar”, July 2020, Moscow © 2020 Private A Moscow court sentenced Yuliya Galyamina, a member of Moscow’s municipal assembly, to a...
View ArticleTurkey: Draft Law Threatens Civil Society
Click to expand Image On December 24, Turkey’s parliament is due to vote on a new law that will increase the Interior Ministry’s powers to restrict NGOs’ activities and threatens the right to freedom...
View ArticleChina: Free Journalists, Activists
Click to expand Image Du Bin © Jonathan Wong/South China Morning Post (New York) – The Chinese authorities have stepped-up arbitrary detentions of journalists and activists reporting on the Covid-19...
View ArticleFifty Years After Safety Act, US Workers Still at Risk
Click to expand Image The most common ailments for workers in the industry are musculoskeletal disorders—cumulative trauma injuries like carpal tunnel or tendinitis that develop through repeated...
View ArticleUS Should Investigate Trump’s Outrageous Georgia Call
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump returns to the White House following a rally in Georgia, January 4, 2021. © 2021 Erin Scott/Cover Images via AP Images During the four years of Donald...
View ArticleUS: ‘Remain in Mexico’ Harms Children, Families
Click to expand Image A Honduran migrant mother and child wait in line for a dinner provided by volunteers at a makeshift encampment occupied by asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the US in...
View ArticleChina: Seekers of Covid-19 Redress Harassed
Click to expand Image Chinese paramilitary police wear face masks in Beijing, May 1, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo (New York) – The Chinese government should cease its campaign against individuals seeking...
View ArticleUS: Trump’s Actions Fuel Capitol Riot
Click to expand Image People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the US Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)...
View ArticleLibya: Militia Terrorized Town, Leaving Mass Graves
Click to expand Image Residents of the Libyan town Tarhouna who were abducted or reported missing between 2014 and 2020. © 2021 Private (Beirut) – Hundreds of residents of the Libyan town Tarhouna...
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