Mozambique: Protect Residents Fleeing Northern Town
Click to expand Image A Mozambican woman works in a rice paddy in Palma, where large deposits of natural gas were found offshore, February 2017. © 2017 JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images Mozambique...
View ArticleBangladesh: ‘Golden Jubilee’ Should be Turning Point on Rights
Click to expand Image Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand on guard at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © 2021 Piyas Biswas / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (New...
View ArticleChina: Companies Should Resist Boycott Threats
Click to expand Image Workers load cotton onto a truck at a sunning ground in Alar (Alaer), northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, September 2015. © Imaginechina via AP Images (New York)...
View ArticleEU-UN Aid Conference Should Focus on Syrians’ Rights
Click to expand Image An aid convoy drives through the city of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, in March 2018 when it was still held by anti-government armed groups. © 2018 Samer...
View ArticleGeneration Equality: Accelerating Progress on Women’s Rights
Click to expand Image Marcelina Bautista, leader of Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar, a domestic workers organization, celebrates the beginning of a pilot program extending...
View ArticleQatar: Male Guardianship Severely Curtails Women’s Rights
Click to expand Image A girl and a woman fly a kite along the promenade by the Doha corniche in the Qatari capital on March 16, 2020. © 2020 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut, March 29, 2021) – Qatar’s...
View ArticleWhy Are Some African Governments Shielding China Over Xinjiang?
Africans have endured more than their fair share of atrocities where the perpetrators got off scot-free, a history that has helped inspire a commitment to global solidarity for human rights and...
View ArticleBelarus: Crackdown on Independent Journalism
Click to expand Image Katsiaryna Barysevich, a journalist for the independent TUT.BY news website enters a court room during a trial in Minsk on 19 February, 2021. © 2021 RAMIL NASIBULIN/BELTA/AFP via...
View ArticleHundreds Missing After Mozambique Attack
Click to expand Image Mozambican army soldiers patrol the streets of Mocimboa da Praia in March 2018. © 2018 Adrien Barbier/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of people remain missing five days after an...
View ArticleRussian Court Extends Activist’s Pretrial Detention
Click to expand Image Mikhail Iosilevich, head of the local branch of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism), an independent group, November 2020. © Private/Facebook A Russian...
View ArticleLebanon: Tripoli Detainees Allege Torture, Forced Disappearance
Click to expand Image Security forces force anti-government protesters away from al-Nour square in the center Tripoli, Lebanon, on January 31, 2021 amidst clashes. © 2021 FATHI AL-MASRI/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleJordan: Yemeni Asylum Seekers Deported
Click to expand Image A Yemeni asylum seeker who arrived in Jordan in 2014, overlooks the city in the neighborhood of Abu Nseir, North of Amman, Jordan on March 25, 2021. © 2021 Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleIMF: Scant Transparency for Covid-19 Emergency Loans
Click to expand Image International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC)...
View ArticleRwanda: Arrests, Prosecutions over YouTube Posts
Click to expand Image From top left to right: Innocent Bahati, Yvonne Idamange, Dieudonné Niyonsenga (alias Cyuma Hassan), Aimable Karasira, and Theoneste Nsengimana. YouTube bloggers and commentators...
View ArticleTime to Focus on Human Rights in EU’s Turkey Agenda
The bolder Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gets, the quieter the European Union (EU). Click to expand Image Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a meeting with European Council...
View ArticleCovid-19 Pandemic Ravages Brazil
Click to expand Image An aerial photograph of a burial in April 2020 in Manaus, in the Amazon forest in Brazil, where people who died of suspected or confirmed Covid-19 are buried. © 2020 Michael...
View ArticleArizona Legislators Should Reject Immunity for Nursing Homes
Click to expand Image © 2009 iStock/Getty Images This week, Arizona legislators will vote on bill 1377, which would shield nursing homes from civil liability for negligence while providing services...
View ArticleUS State Department Re-Commits to Reporting on Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, March 30, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticlePoland: Escalating Threats to Women Activists
Click to expand Image Protesters hold a banner of Strajk Kobiet (Women's Strike) during a protest in Warsaw on March 8, International Women's Day, organized by the Women's Strike (Strajk Kobiet)...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Independent Blogger Attacked
(Berlin) – Unidentified assailants brutally attacked an independent blogger who has publicly defended lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights outside his home in Tashkent, Uzbekistan late...
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