Afghans Stuck at Poland’s Border Need Protection
Click to expand Image Polish security forces surround migrants at the border with Belarus in Usnarz Gorny, Poland on September 1, 2021. © 2021 Czarek Sokolowski/AP Images While Poland’s government...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Humanitarian Crisis Needs Urgent Response
Click to expand Image Afghans wait for hours to try to withdraw money from a bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 30, 2021. © 2021 Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi/AP Photo (New York) – Afghanistan’s foreign...
View ArticleNew Measures in Brazil Not Enough to Solve Amazon Crisis
Click to expand Image Fires near Novo Progresso, Brazil on August 23, 2020, burned land deforested by cattle farmers. © 2020 Andre Penner/AP Images As fires rage in the Brazilian Amazon, environment...
View ArticleSome Accountability for Attack on Burkina Faso School
Click to expand Image A student responds to a teacher’s question in an overcrowded classroom at a public primary school in Kaya, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso. In January 2020, the school had 748...
View ArticleEgypt: ‘Shootouts’ Disguise Apparent Extrajudicial Executions
(Beirut) – Egypt’s Interior Ministry police and National Security Agency officers have in recent years apparently killed dozens of alleged “terrorists” across the country in unlawful extrajudicial...
View ArticleExplosive Weapons Attacks on Afghanistan Schools Increase
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 ArticleThe Revolving Door of Persecution in Crimea
Click to expand Image Nariman Dzhelyal in Crimea in 2019. © 2019 Anton Naumliuk, Grati In today’s Crimea, to be a member of the Crimean Tatar community is to be a target for the authorities.In the...
View ArticleAid-for-Sex Alleged in Northern Mozambique
Click to expand Image A woman walks through the Internally Displaced Person camp "25 de junho," in Metuge, Mozambique on May 20, 2021. © 2021 JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images Allegations of sexual...
View ArticlePakistan May Have its First Woman Supreme Court Justice
Click to expand Image Justice Ayesha Malik. Source: Lahore High Court This week the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, the highest body recommending judicial appointments, will consider the nomination...
View ArticleAfghan Women Protest Against Taliban Restrictions
Click to expand Image Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 3, 2021. © 2021 Wali Sabawoon/AP Images “We decided to protest to...
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities, Older People at Risk after Hurricane Ida
Click to expand Image Occupants prepare to depart the Renaissance Place senior living apartments in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on September 3, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana. © 2021 Matt...
View ArticlePeruvian Advocate for People with Disabilities Honored
Click to expand Image Bryan Russell hold his thumb up. © Bryan Russell 2020 (New York) – Bryan Russell, a Peruvian human rights advocate, is the 2021 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo...
View ArticleUS: Advance Human Right to Safe, Affordable Water
(Washington, DC) – The United States Congress should support programs that ensure everyone in the US has access to safe and affordable water, Human Rights Watch said in a video released today. To...
View ArticleDespite Overwhelming Evidence, Bangladesh Authorities Deny Enforced...
Click to expand Image Children hold the picture of their fathers as they join in an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared in Dhaka, Bangladesh on August 30, 2021. © 2021 Suvra Kanti...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Researcher on Xinjiang Crimes Banned
Click to expand Image Gene Bunin © 2021 Gene Bunin/Courtesy Photo (Berlin) – Kazakh authorities have banned a Russian-American researcher from the country for five years in apparent efforts to stymy...
View ArticleMexico: Mass Expulsion of Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
Click to expand Image Buses sit on the Mexican side of the El Ceibo border crossing after having expelled migrants into Guatemala. © 2021 Courtesy of Alejandra Macías Delgadillo, Asylum Access México...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Severely Beat Journalists
Click to expand Image An Etilaat-e Roz reporter, one of several journalists beaten while covering protests in Kabul, September 7, 2021. © Private (New York) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have...
View ArticleTentative Steps Toward Vaccine Equity in Malaysia
Click to expand Image A health worker gestures to the next vaccine recipient at Malaysia International Trade & Exhibition Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 31, 2021. © 2021 Vivian Lo/ SOPA...
View ArticleEU: Robustly Implement New Export Rules for Surveillance Tech
Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch, Access Now, Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders call for robust implementation of new EU export control...
View ArticleMexican Soldiers and Immigration Agents Violently Detain Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Agents of the National Migration Institute detain a migrant during an operation to halt the progress of a caravan of migrants and asylum seekers in Chiapas state, Mexico on...
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