#FreeBritney Shines a Light on Problematic Guardianship Systems
Click to expand Image Britney Spears supporters pose for a photo outside a court hearing concerning the pop singer's conservatorship at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, February 11, 2021. ©...
View ArticleMore Schoolchildren Abducted in Nigeria
Click to expand Image Freed schoolboys look on during a meeting with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, December 18, 2020, in Katsina, Nigeria, days after an armed group attacked their school and...
View ArticleHuman Rights Body Calls for Repeal of Jamaica’s Anti-LGBT Laws
Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today made public a decision calling on Jamaica to repeal laws...
View ArticleTroubling Raid on Philippine Indigenous School
Click to expand Image Arrested teachers and adult Indigenous students confer with their lawyer while detained in a Cebu City jail. © Save Our Schools Network On Monday, police in the central...
View ArticleFree Speech Under Threat in Uzbekistan
Click to expand Image Oliy Majlis, the Parliament of Uzbekistan. Tashkent, Uzbekistan © 2019 Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Uzbekistan’s parliament is considering worrying...
View ArticleTurkey: Student Protesters at Risk of Prosecution
(Istanbul) – Turkish authorities have placed hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, Human Rights Watch said today. The students were arrested during weeks of protests...
View ArticleTwo Journalists in Belarus Jailed in Retaliation for Their Work
Click to expand Image Journalists Ekaterina Andreyeva (Bakhvalova), right, and Daria Chultsova embrace inside the defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, February 9, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleRussian Activist Given Suspended Sentence for ‘Undesirable’ Charges
Today, a Russian court sentenced Anastasiya Shevchenko to a 4-year suspended sentence for affiliation with an “undesirable organization.” While it is a relief that Shevchenko will not have to serve...
View ArticleGuatemala: Free Press Under Attack
Click to expand Image Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei gives a press conference at the National Theatre, the day before his inauguration in Guatemala City, on Jan. 13, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleCambodia: Internet Censorship, Control Expanded
Click to expand Image A man views Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook page on his mobile phone in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2016 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – The Cambodian...
View ArticleMyanmar: Sanction Generals and Military-Owned Companies
Click to expand Image State Administrative Council Chairman and Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing makes a televised statement in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, February 11, 2021. © 2021 Tatmadaw...
View ArticleMexican Senate Takes a Step to Protect Women with Disabilities
Click to expand Image Women with disabilities demonstrate against violence in Mexico City, Mexico, March 8, 2020. © 2020 Mexicanas con Discapacidad This week, Mexico’s Senate approved a reform to the...
View ArticleEgypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families
Click to expand Image Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gives an address at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, May 26, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Beirut) – The Egyptian authorities’...
View ArticleIndia: Government Policies, Actions Target Minorities
Click to expand Image A woman walks past security forces patrolling a street in a riot affected area in New Delhi, India, February 26, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (New York) – Authorities in...
View ArticleMalaysia: Planned Forced Return of 1,200 to Myanmar
Click to expand Image Undocumented migrants are detained during a crackdown by Malaysia’s Immigration Department in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, May 20, 2020. © 2020...
View ArticleNew Raids and Arrests in Crimea
Click to expand Image Riot police and Crimean Tatar activists in front of the Kyiv district court building in Simferopol, Crimea, February 17, 2021. © 2021 Crimean Solidarity On February 17, Russia’s...
View ArticleTo Help Migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tackle EU Abuses
Click to expand Image Migrants warm their hands above a fire at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monday, January 11, 2021. The camp was closed on December 23, 2020 and destroyed...
View ArticleMalaysia: Court Punishes News Site for Reader Comments
Click to expand Image Malaysiakini's editor-in-chief Steven Gan speaks to the media at the Federal Court in in Putrajaya, Malaysia on February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Vincent Thian (Bangkok) – The...
View ArticleEuropean Union Presses Zimbabwe to End Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga (center) and her colleague Julie Barnes hold placards as they are arrested during an anti-corruption protest march in Harare, Zimbabwe, on...
View ArticleUS: Take New Approach at Mexico Border
(Iowa) – The administration of United States President Joe Biden should move swiftly to ensure fair, dignified, and humane treatment of asylum seekers and migrants at the border, Human Rights Watch and...
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