Yemen: UAE-Backed Forces Torture Journalist
Click to expand Image Members of UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatist forces stand by a tank during clashes with government forces in Aden, Yemen August 10, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Fawaz Salman (Sanaa)...
View ArticleHaiti: Attacks on Judicial Independence
Click to expand Image Heavily armed police are part of the group delivering Supreme Court justice Yvickel Dabrésil along with other detained individuals into custody at the penitentiary in...
View ArticleSweden To Investigate Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
Click to expand Image Vy över Sveriges parlament (riksdag) i Stockholm den 9 april 2006. © WikiPedia/Creative Commons A recent inquiry in the Netherlands into intercountry adoptions uncovered such...
View ArticleUganda’s Beaten Journalists Deserve Justice
Click to expand Image In this file photo, people look down from a balcony as military police deploy in downtown Kampala, Uganda, February 20, 2016. © 2016 AP Photo/Ben Curtis On February 17, military...
View ArticleJapan Hair Controversy Highlights Harmful School Policies
Click to expand Image High school students wearing face masks walk in Tokyo, January 16, 2021. © 2021 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images A recent case in Osaka, Japan, about hair color, highlights...
View ArticleGerman Court to Issue First Verdict in Syria Torture Trial
Click to expand Image Photos of Syrians who have been detained or disappeared set up by Families for Freedom, as part of a protest in front of the court in Koblenz, July 2, 2020. © 2020 Alexander...
View ArticleTunisia: Police Arrest, Use Violence Against LGBTI Activists
Click to expand Image Protesters gather in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia on February 6, 2021. © 2021 Karim Saadi (Beirut) – Tunisian security forces have repeatedly targeted protesters,...
View ArticleAttacks Targeting Afghan Civilians Spread Terror
Click to expand Image Kabul street where gunmen fatally shot two women judges who worked for Afghanistan's high court, and wounded their driver, January 17, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul With...
View ArticleGermany: MPs Should Strengthen Proposed Supply Chain Law
Click to expand Image "Peter," 15, working alongside a teenage girl at an artisanal and small-scale mine in Odahu, Amansie West district, Ghana. © 2016 Juliane Kippenberg for Human Rights Watch...
View ArticlePhilippines: Free Duterte Critic Held 4 Years
Click to expand Image Philippines opposition Senator Leila de Lima, second right, shows the printout of her cast ballot for the country's midterm elections on May 13, 2019 in Paranaque, southeast of...
View ArticleAlgeria’s Hirak Protest Movement Marks Second Anniversary
Click to expand Image Algerians demonstrate in Algiers to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak movement, February 22, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Toufik Doudou The numbers were down from the hundreds...
View ArticleUN Should Speak Up on Covid-19 “Pandemic of Human Rights Abuses”
Click to expand Image Police block a street in Russia’s capital, Moscow, on July 15, 2020, during a protest against the results of voting on constitutional amendments. The mayor’s office had banned...
View ArticleIraq: Detentions of Alleged “Death Squad”
Click to expand Image Ali Naseer Alawy, after armed masked men beat him and used an acid mixture to try to remove a tattoo on his arm. © 2021 Private (Beirut) – On February 15, Iraqi authorities...
View ArticleUN Security Council: Impose Arms Embargo on Myanmar
Click to expand Image A police officer stands in front of anti-coup protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (New York) – The United Nations Security Council should urgently...
View ArticleChina: Baseless Imprisonments Surge in Xinjiang
Click to expand Image A perimeter fence around what is officially known as a” vocational skills education center” in Dabancheng in China's Xinjiang region, September 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Thomas Peter...
View ArticleMalaysia: Investigate Return of 1,086 Myanmar Nationals
Click to expand Image Image taken from a video of an immigration truck with security guards and unidentified people on the road to Lumut Naval Base on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 in Lumut, Malaysia. ©...
View ArticleCanada Should Match US Climate Ambitions
Click to expand Image Weenusk First Nation member, Mike Wabano, sets up camp for caribou hunting on a frozen river near Peawanuck, December 14, 2019. As a result of warming temperatures, ice and snow...
View ArticleHong Kong Repression’s True Cost
Click to expand Image A protester is tackled by riot police during a demonstration outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, June 12, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Kin Cheung The Hong Kong government’s...
View ArticleDozens Killed in Prison Uprisings in Ecuador
Click to expand Image Tear gas rises from parts of Turi jail where an inmate riot broke out in Cuenca, Ecuador, February 23, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Marcelo Suquilanda Riots that broke out in four large...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Proposed Reforms Neglect Basic Rights
Click to expand Image The face of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears on a large billboard on West Cromwell Road, on March 7, 2018, in London, England. "He is bringing change to Saudi...
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