Yemen: Scores Die in Migrant Detention Center Fire
(Beirut) – Scores of migrants burned to death in Yemen on March 7, 2021, after Houthi security forces launched unidentified projectiles into an immigration detention center in Sanaa, causing a fire,...
View ArticleJordan: Widespread Imprisonment for Debt
(Amman) – An alarming number of Jordanians end up in prison each year solely for failing to repay their loans, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Imprisonment for debt is a clear...
View ArticleA Small Victory for Transgender Rights in Hungary
Transgender and intersex people in Hungary recently won a small victory amid rampant discrimination when the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that a legal ban on changing gender, introduced last...
View ArticleTurkey: Don’t Expel Opposition Deputy from Parliament
Click to expand Image Opposition member of parliament, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) speaking in parliament, May 2, 2019. © 2019 TBMM. (Istanbul) – Any move by...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Targeted Killings of Civilians Escalate
Click to expand Image Security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, March 15, 2021. AP Photo/Rahmat Gul (New York) – Insurgent groups in Afghanistan have...
View ArticleSri Lanka: ‘Religious Disharmony’ Order Threatens Minorities
Click to expand Image A Sri Lankan Muslim woman wearing a burqa walks outside her apartment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena (New York) – Sri Lanka’s...
View ArticleMartial Law in Myanmar a Death Knell for Fair Trials
Click to expand Image Protesters flash the three-fingered salute and hold candles during a rally at night in Yangon, Myanmar, March 14, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo Myanmar’s military junta declared martial...
View ArticleNo, It’s Not the Same Old Thing at the Border
Click to expand Image A woman walks carrying her child at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, Texas, August 23, 2019. © 2019 AP...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea Unprepared for Covid-19 Surge
Click to expand Image The flag of Papua New Guinea, April 11, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo Papua New Guinea is facing a surge in Covid-19 cases, with more confirmed cases in the first two weeks of March than...
View ArticleEgypt: Massive Sinai Demolitions Likely War Crimes
Click to expand Image A boy stands on the debris of a building destroyed by the Egyptian army on the Egyptian side of the town of Rafah, Egypt, near the start of the conflict in northern Sinai. ©...
View ArticlePeru: Disability Rights at Risk with New Bill
Click to expand Image A view of the Congress building in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2018. © REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo A view of the Congress building in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2018. ©...
View ArticleGuinea: Opponents’ Deaths In Detention
Click to expand Image A sign showing Conakry’s central prison. Photo taken on March 11, 2021, in Conakry, Guinea. © 2021 Mamoudou Diallo (Nairobi) – Four men detained as suspected political...
View ArticleExperts Slam Double Standards in UN ‘List of Shame’
The United Nations secretary-general has come under fire repeatedly in recent years for letting national armed forces and non-state armed groups off the hook for grave violations against children in...
View ArticleGambia: Alleged ‘Death Squad’ Member Arrested in Germany
Click to expand Image Members of the Gambian paramilitary group known as the Junglers. The Junglers have been implicated in serious human rights violations including torture, enforced disappearances,...
View ArticleFamilies of Victims Need Access to Cameroon Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Memorial ceremony held on February 21, 2020 at the Saint Theresia Cathedral l in Kumbo, North-West region, Cameroon, for victims of the Ngarbuh massacre. © 2020 Private The...
View ArticleLiberia Misleads on Justice at UN Rights Review
Click to expand Image File photo depicting the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, November 2017. © 2017 Reuters Liberia’s justice minister, Frank...
View ArticleIndonesia: Dress Codes Discriminate Against Women, Girls
(Jakarta) – Dress codes for women and girls in Indonesia discriminate against students, civil servants, and visitors to government offices and should be revoked, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
View ArticleA Boost to Same-Sex Marriage in Japan
Click to expand Image Lawyers and supporters hold rainbow flags and a banner outside Sapporo District Court in Sapporo, Japan, March 17, 2021. © 2021 Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP It was quite...
View ArticleUN Security Council Urges South Sudan to Establish Hybrid Court
Click to expand Image File photo showing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. © 2016 Andrew Kelly/Reuters South Sudan should heed last week’s call from the UN Security Council to...
View ArticleWill US Repeat History by Failing Haitians Again?
Click to expand Image A migrant from Haiti wearing a mask in the colors of the Mexican and US flags stands at a border crossing waiting to apply for asylum in the US, February 19, 2021. © 2021 Jair...
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