Haiti: Protect Women, Girls in Quake Response
Click to expand Image Residents help Team Rubicon's disaster response team unload aid at the airport from a US Army helicopter to take to the hospital where the team is treating residents injured in...
View ArticleBangladesh: Fleeing Rohingya Die at Sea
Click to expand Image Fencing encloses the Rohingya refugee camp on the island of Bhasan Char, off the coast of Bangladesh. © 2021 Private (New York) – A fishing boat carrying more than 40 Rohingya...
View ArticleRussia: Insufficient Home Services for Older People
Click to expand Image A pensioner carries logs in the courtyard of her wooden house where she opened a private museum of the old quarter, in Nikolayevskaya Sloboda, Krasnoyarsk, Russia on September...
View ArticleZambia’s Peaceful Transition ‘a New Dawn?’
Click to expand Image Zambian President-elect Hakainde Hichilema addresses a press conference at his residence in Lusaka, Zambia, August 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi Zambia’s...
View ArticleFormer Chad Dictator Habré’s Dead, Victims Still Await Compensation
Click to expand Image Former Chad dictator Hissène Habré, left, leaving the court in Dakar, Senegal on November 25, 2005. © 2005 AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File Former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré...
View ArticleBrazil: Reject Anti-Indigenous Rights Bill
Click to expand Image Indigenous people protest against a bill on the demarcation of indigenous land, in front of the National Congress, on June 8 2021, in Brasilia, Brazil. © Mateus Bonomi/AGIF (via...
View ArticleEvacuate At-Risk Afghans
Click to expand Image Children and adults on their arrival in Dubai after being evacuated from Afghanistan by the Spanish government, on August 20, 2021. © 2021 Europa Press via AP Thousands of...
View ArticlePersecution of Critics Needs to End In Russia-Occupied Crimea
Click to expand Image An activist holds a placard during a rally in support of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's freelance journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev, Ukraine on July...
View ArticleCuba: Telecommunications Decree Curtails Free Speech
Click to expand Image Cuban Rolando Remedios shows a photo on his mobile phone of him being arrested during the July 11 protests. Remedios was released on August 6. © 2021 Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP...
View ArticleFamilies of Sri Lanka’s Forcibly Disappeared Denied Justice
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan women hold portraits of missing loved ones, during a protest demanding the government investigate enforced disappearances, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 14, 2020. ©...
View ArticleThailand: Drug Suspect Tortured to Death
Click to expand Image Four police officers wanted in connection with the killing of a suspect in their custody arrive at the Nakhon Sawan police station in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand, August 25,...
View ArticleIndia: Spyware Use Violates Supreme Court Privacy Ruling
Click to expand Image Protest against the Indian government’s alleged use of Pegasus spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists, and activists, in New Delhi, India, August 2, 2021. ©2021...
View ArticleLeaked Videos Show Abuses Behind Bars in Iran’s Prisons
Click to expand Image In this undated frame grab taken from video shared with The Associated Press by a self-identified hacker group called "The Justice of Ali," a guard hits a prisoner, at Evin...
View ArticleTanzanian President’s Remarks Denigrate Women Footballers
Click to expand Image Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania on March 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Images This week, at a ceremony hosting the Tanzania...
View ArticleInclusive Education is at Risk in Brazil
Click to expand Image A young girl who does not attend school, living in an institution in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on November 6, 2016. © 2016 Human Rights Watch On August 17, Brazilian Minister of...
View ArticleUS: Supreme Court Ruling Endangers Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Lizbeth, a Salvadoran woman seeking asylum in the United States, poses for a portrait in a relative's home in Tijuana, Mexico, where she was returned to wait for the outcome of...
View ArticleAttack at Kabul Airport Ends Civilian Evacuation
Click to expand Image Smoke rises from an explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 26, 2021. © 2021 Wali Sabawoon/AP Images A set of bombing attacks at the southeast gate of...
View ArticleUganda: Harassment of Civil Society Groups
Click to expand Image The flag of Uganda. © 2018 Press Association via AP Images (Kampala) – Ugandan authorities on August 20, 2021, announced without prior notification that they had halted the...
View Article‘The Taliban Are Looking for Me’
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters patrol Kabul, Afghanistan, August 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul Yesterday’s bombing at Kabul’s international airport has drastically curtailed evacuation...
View ArticleThe Killing Doesn’t Stop During South Africa’s Women’s Month
Click to expand Image A year after 19-year-old Uyinene Mrwetyana was kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered in August 2019, while collecting a parcel at Clarenreich Post Office, Cape Town, South...
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