Kenya: Irregularities Mar Covid-19 Cash Transfers
(Nairobi) – Kenyan authorities failed to design a social security program that would guarantee everyone, not just a few, an adequate standard of living during the pandemic, Human Rights Watch said in a...
View ArticleDoctor Demanding Justice Detained in Turkmenistan
On July 16, police in Turkmenistan arrested a doctor whose unfair dismissal was raised during a human rights panel that I moderated that was held a day earlier by the European Parliament. Khursanai...
View ArticleGerman Flood Deaths Highlight Climate Change Risks for People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image The “Lebenshilfe-Haus” or ‘assisted-living facility”, where twelve people with disabilities drowned in floods on July 15, 2021. © 2021 Thomas Frey/dpa via AP On July 15, twelve...
View ArticleHong Kong: Drop Charges Against Vigil Organizer
Click to expand Image Chow Hang-tung, Vice Chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriotic Movements of China, leaves after being released on bail at a police station in...
View ArticleMyanmar: Junta Tribunals Impose 65 Death Sentences
Click to expand Image Soldiers and police stand guard behind a road barricade in Mandalay, Myanmar, February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Myanmar junta’s military tribunals have sentenced...
View ArticleBiden Border Expulsions Continue to Harm Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Honduran men cross into the United States to begin the asylum process Monday, July 5, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The administration of President Joe Biden continues to turn away...
View ArticleIn China, Chinese Now Tops Tibetan
Click to expand Image Signs marking the national college entrance examination sites in Nagchu Municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region. © The Chinese government has long issued laws and statements...
View ArticleGreek Authorities Target NGOs Reporting Abuses against Migrants
Click to expand Image A dinghy with migrants, left, in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast on April 2, 2021. © 2021 Hellenic Coast Guard via AP...
View ArticleTanzanian Opposition Leader, Supporters Arrested
Click to expand Image Tanzania Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe (center) arrives at the party's headquarters after being released from Segerea prison in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 13, 2020....
View ArticleAbuses in Aluminum Supply Chains a Blind Spot for Car Industry
Automobile companies need to do more to address human rights abuses in their aluminum supply chains. The transition to electric vehicles means that car manufacturers are forecast to double their...
View ArticleFrance: Class Action Lawsuit against Ethnic Profiling
Click to expand Image Police agents check identity documents of passerby during the lockdown in Rennes, France. April 11, 2020. © 2020 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – France has failed to take necessary...
View ArticleEnd Athlete Abuse in Pursuit of Olympic Medals in Japan
Tsubasa Araya was a gifted 17-year-old high school volleyball player in Japan. In July 2018, he took his life, writing, “Volleyball is the hardest.” As Japan prepares to host the Summer Olympics and...
View ArticleUK Leaves Out Pregnant People from Heat Health Warnings
Click to expand Image A woman walks under a parasol to shelter from the sun in Birmingham, U.K., on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The U.K.'s Met Office has issued its first-ever Extreme Heat weather...
View ArticleHasty, Harsh Sentence for Congo Critic
Click to expand Image Jacky Ndala. © Private On July 18, Jacky Ndala, youth leader for the political party Together for the Republic (Ensemble pour la République), noticed unusual activity outside his...
View ArticleArgentina Recognizes Non-Binary Identities
Click to expand Image President Alberto Fernández (center) with other authorities and members of social organizations, form an 'X', at the Bicentennial Museum in Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
View ArticleIran: Deadly Response to Water Protests
Click to expand Image © Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Iranian authorities appear to have used excessive force against demonstrators in southwestern Iran protesting lack of access to water, Human...
View ArticleChina Restarts Forced Returns of Refugees to North Korea
Click to expand Image Photos of the North Korean refugees helped by the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association of Korea are displayed in Seoul, South Korea on June 11, 2019. © 2019 Josh...
View ArticleEurope’s Lack of Vision on Rule of Law
Click to expand Image European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders delivers the opening statements during a plenary session on the Commissions 2020 Rule of law report at the European Parliament...
View ArticleBiden Tells Central American Asylum Seekers to Stay Home
Click to expand Image President Joe Biden speaks at a CNN town hall at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, OH on July 21, 2021. © 2021 Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Refugees are defined under...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: A Year On, Demand for Justice for Azimjon Askarov’s Death
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...
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