Myanmar: Security Forces Arrest Defense Lawyers
Click to expand Image A police truck is seen on a street during the military coup demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on February 24, 2021. © 2021 Santosh Krl / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s...
View ArticleUN Should Investigate Deadly Attacks on Afghan Civilians
Click to expand Image The mother of a schoolgirl who was among those killed in the brutal May 8, 2021 bombing of the Sayed ul-Shuhada girls' school stands inside a classroom with bouquets of flowers...
View ArticleUN Security Council: End Inaction on Ethiopia
Click to expand Image Ethiopians wait for food distribution in a small town north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 7, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ben Curtis © 2021 AP Photo/Ben...
View ArticleHonduras: Court Finds State Responsible for Trans Killing
Click to expand Image Picture of Vicky Hernández. © Red Lésbica Cattrachas (New York) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in a landmark ruling on June 26, 2021, held that Honduras violated the...
View ArticleSenegal: New Counterterror Laws Threaten Rights
Click to expand Image People flee teargas thrown by riot police during a protest against the proposed counterterrorism law and penal code reform at the Cheikh Anta Diop University campus in Dakar,...
View ArticleUkraine: Torture, Ill-Treatment by Armed Groups in East
Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch (Kyiv) – Russia-backed armed groups in eastern Ukraine are torturing and ill-treating people in custody, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...
View ArticleChina: Tibetan Monks Harshly Sentenced
Click to expand Image Secretary Zhang Ling (center) during his inspection tour of Tengdro monastery in Shekar town, Tingri county, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 2, 2020. Comrade Zhang Ling is Deputy...
View ArticleCyprus Moves to Shutter Local Human Rights Group
Click to expand Image A migrant carrying a camp bed and bed clothes inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside of Nicosia, Cyprus, March 3, 2020. © 2020 Petros Karadjias/AP Photo In September...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Greenlight Global Racism Probe
Click to expand Image Delegates attend a session on racism and police brutality, a resolution in the wake of the death of George Floyd, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva,...
View ArticleEuropean Court Upholds Russian Transgender Woman’s Right to Family Life
Click to expand Image Activists participate in the St Petersburg LGBT Pride march on August 12, 2017. © 2017 Valya Egorshin/NurPhoto via Getty Images In a victory for a transgender parent’s right to...
View ArticleTurkey/Kyrgyzstan: Rendition of Turkish-Kyrgyz Educator
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a broadcast on TRT TV on July 5 2021, in which Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that the intelligence services have transported Orhan İnandı from...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Crackdown on Government Critics
Click to expand Image Koshe Party activists handing out information leaflets in Nursultan, Kazakhstan’s capital, before the unregistered group was banned by court order. February 18, 2020. © 2020...
View ArticleUN Security Council: Restore Syria Cross-Border Aid
Click to expand Image UN humanitarian aid trucks enter northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey on June 1, 2021. © 2021 Associated Press (New York) – Russia should not block...
View ArticleHealth Workers Abandoned in Yemen’s Covid-19 Fight
Click to expand Image A medical worker wearing full protective gear stands at the gate of the intensive care unit of a hospital, where coronavirus (Covid-19) patients are treated in Sanaa, Yamen, on...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Displace Civilians
Click to expand Image Afghans carry the bodies of civilians killed during fighting between the Taliban and government security forces, in Badakhshan province, northern Afghanistan, July 4, 2021. ©...
View ArticleChinese Cyber Legend Vanishes, Raising Concerns
Click to expand Image A photo-composite showing a phone displaying the Program-Think twitter account and Chinese flag. Flag: © 2021 Chan Long Hei / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP Images “I hope Program-Think...
View ArticleSupermarket Chain in Russia Acts LGBT-Inclusive, Then Regrets It
Click to expand Image A VkusVill’s market in central Moscow, Russia on July 7th, 2021. © 2021 Human Rights Watch Last week, VkusVill, a prominent Russian food market chain, ran an online advertisement...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Azimjon Askarov’s Family Awaits Justice
Click to expand Image Ethnic Uzbek journalist Azimzhan Askarov, who was arbitrarily arrested, tortured, convicted after an unfair trial and jailed for life looks through metal bars during hearings at...
View ArticleVietnam: Free Prominent Novelist
Click to expand Image Pham Chi Thanh © Private (New York) – The Vietnamese government should immediately release the dissident writer and novelist Pham Chi Thanh and drop all criminal charges against...
View ArticleAustralia: Act on UN Review Pledges
Click to expand Image Australia’s placard at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva © 2015 Human Rights Watch (Geneva, July 8, 2021) – Australia’s rejection of recommendations from United...
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