Iraq: Inadequate Plans for Camp Closures
Click to expand Image Government buses waiting to move families from one camp in Anbar governate to another during a previous wave of camp closures in December 2018. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights...
View ArticleIndonesia: Expanding Palm Oil Operations Bring Harm
(Jakarta) – The harm a palm oil plantation in western Kalimantan, Indonesia, is causing to the surrounding communities and the environment demonstrates the government’s failure to enforce its own...
View ArticleSeven Reasons the EU is Wrong to Oppose the TRIPS Waiver
Click to expand Image People wait to get tested for Covid-19 in Hyderabad, India, April 25, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A. As the Covid-19 pandemic has devastating human rights, social, and...
View ArticleChina: Account for Tiananmen Massacre
Click to expand Image Supporters gather for a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, June 4, 2020, despite applications for it being...
View ArticleUkraine: Reform of Abusive Security Agency at Risk
Click to expand Image Lawmakers attend a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine December 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Berlin) – Ukraine’s parliament should not squander the opportunity presented by the...
View ArticleNew York Governor Should Sign Bill to End Child Marriage
Click to expand Image Women protest child marriage at the New York state capitol in Albany, on Feb. 14, 2017. © 2017 Anna Gronewold/AP Photo On June 2, the New York State Assembly voted unanimously to...
View ArticlePakistan: Escalating Attacks on Journalists
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalist Asad Ali Toor, center, speaks during a demonstration to condemn attacks on journalists, in Islamabad, Pakistan. © 2021 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File (New...
View ArticlePolice Killing, Caught on Video, Riles the Philippines
Click to expand Image Veiled protesters, mostly relatives of victims of alleged extrajudicial killings by the police, display placards during a protest outside the Philippine police headquarters,...
View ArticleLibya: Draconian Decree Would Restrict Civic Groups
Click to expand Image Newly appointed Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabeiba addresses members of the Libyan House of Representatives, a day before his cabinet secured a vote of confidence from the...
View ArticleTurkey Flouts European Court Judgments
Click to expand Image The Council of Europe, March 22, 2020, in Strasbourg France. © 2020 Nicolas Roses/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images The Council of Europe should insist that Turkey comply immediately...
View ArticleClimate Defenders Threatened, Struggle to Make Their Voices Heard
Click to expand Image Residents and environmental activists on Lamu island, Kenya, protest the proposed Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia (LAPSSET) project on March 1, 2012. © 2012 Reuters/Joseph Okanga...
View ArticleCambodia: Solve Thai Activist’s ‘Disappearance’
Click to expand Image Sitanun Satsaksit holds a portrait of her brother, Wanchalearm, who was forcibly disappeared while living in exile in Cambodia on June 4, 2020. © 2021 Mirror Foundation (New...
View ArticleFrance Moves Closer to Ratifying Workplace Harassment Treaty
Click to expand Image Women demonstrate and march for “First of Chores” on International Day for Women's Rights in Paris, France, March 8, 2021. © 2021 Sipa via AP Images Two years after a landmark...
View ArticleBahrain: Stop Denying Abuse of Detained Children
Click to expand Image Sayed Hasan Ameen, 16, has serious medical complications from sickle cell anemia but Bahraini authorities denied him family visits and access to medications in detention. He is...
View ArticleG7 Governments: End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Click to expand Image A Uniper coal-fired power plant and a BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Jan. 16, 2020. © 2020 Martin Meissner/AP Photo © (London) – G7 member...
View ArticleBangladesh: Rohingya Refugees on Island Fear Monsoon
(New York) – The Bangladesh government has relocated nearly 20,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island without adequate health care, livelihoods, or protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
View ArticleNigeria’s Twitter Ban Follows Pattern of Repression
Click to expand Image A man looks at newspapers at a newsstand in Abuja, Nigeria June 5, 2021. © 2021 Afolabi Sotunde/REUTERS The Nigerian government’s decision to ban Twitter and prosecute those who...
View ArticleCameroonian Human Rights Lawyer Detained on Bogus Terrorism Charges
Click to expand Image A patrol of Cameroonian gendarmes during a political rally in the Omar Bongo Square, Buea, capital of the South-West region, on October 3, 2018. © 2018 Marco Longari/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleUN: Promoting Rights Key to UN Chief Guterres’ 2nd Term
Click to expand Image United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the press at UN Headquarters in New York, November 20, 2020. © 2020 Lev Radin/Sipa via AP Images (New York) – United...
View ArticleUN Child Rights Body Moves to Protect Kids from Environmental Harm
Click to expand Image A girl surrounded by land devastated by Cyclone Amphan in Satkhira, Bangladesh on March 20th, 2021. © 2021 Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via AP Children are facing the harmful...
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