For the Deaf Community, Sign Language Equals Rights
Click to expand Image A deaf worker serves customers using sign language at Serona Kafe, in Bintaro, Banten province, Indonesia. The café deliberately employs deaf people to provide job opportunities...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Rules Australia Failed to Protect from Climate Change
Click to expand Image A woman walks past palm trees on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, August 9, 2006. © 2006 Andrew Mears/Fairfax Media via Getty Images The United Nations Human Rights Committee...
View ArticleAlgeria: Free Activist Granted Refugee Status in Tunisia
(Tunis) – Algerian authorities should immediately release Slimane Bouhafs, an Algerian activist who disappeared a year ago from Tunisia and is now detained under investigation by an Algerian court, and...
View ArticleLebanon: Syrian Refugee Apparently Tortured to Death
Click to expand Image Bashar Abed Al Saud © 2022 Private (Beirut) – Lebanese authorities should transfer the prosecution of security force members charged in the torture and murder of a Syrian refugee...
View ArticleICC Starts Trial against Central African Republic Rebel Leader
Click to expand Image Mahamat Said Abdel Kani during the confirmation of charges at the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court on October 12, 2021. © ICC-CPI Today, the trial of Mahamat...
View ArticleNepal President Blocks Citizenship Law
Click to expand Image Student activists protest against President Bidya Bhandari’s unwillingness to endorse the Citizenship Bill that was passed by parliament. September 21, 2022 © 2022 Rojan...
View ArticleHungary Should Guarantee Safety of Lesbian Activists During DykeMarch
Click to expand Image Rising anger over policies of Hungary's right-wing government filled the streets of the country's capital as thousands of LGBT activists and supporters marched in the city's...
View ArticleJapan Should Strengthen New Business and Human Rights Guidelines
Click to expand Image Shipping cranes on a wharf inside the Tokyo Bay. © 2022 Sipa USA via AP Japan’s recently adopted guidelines on responsible use of supply chains are a missed opportunity to...
View ArticleUS: Budget Cuts Put Public Housing Tenants at Risk
Click to expand Image Ramona Ferreyra looks out at the public housing development where she lives in the Bronx borough of New York. January 28, 2022. © 2022 Human Rights Watch (New York) – Decades of...
View ArticleBelarusian Authorities Further Tighten Chokehold on Civil Society
Click to expand Image Solidarity action with Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defenders in Warsaw, Poland, September 2021. © 2021 Human Rights Center “Viasna” This week, prominent Belarusian human...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Revoke Sweeping New Order to Restrict Protest
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan police disperse protesters in Colombo with tear gas and a water cannon, September 24, 2022. © 2022 Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – The Sri Lankan...
View ArticleThe New Italian Government Poses A Human Rights Challenge
Click to expand Image Election posters of Fratelli d'Italia, Lega con Salvini and Forza Italia are seen on the streets ahead of election day in Rome, Italy, on September 16, 2022. © 2022 Elisa...
View ArticleBrazil: Uphold the Right to Vote Freely and Safely
Click to expand Image A protester holds a sign reading “Democracy” in Portuguese and in Braille at a rally in in São Paulo, August 11, 2022. © 2022 Ettore Chiereguini/AGIF (via AP) (São Paulo) –...
View ArticleTrial of Rwanda Genocide Suspect Begins in The Hague
Click to expand Image Félicien Kabuga during his Initial Appearance at The Hague on November 11, 2020. © 2020 Leslie Hondebrink-Hermer/UN-IRMCT The trial of Félicien Kabuga, for crimes committed...
View ArticleEU: Denounce Israel’s Apartheid at Association Council Meeting
Click to expand Image Yair Lapid, then Israeli foreign minister and current prime minister, speaks with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell during a July...
View ArticleFictitious Annexation Follows 'Voting' at Gunpoint
Click to expand Image A Russian officer guards a polling station in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine, which is occupied by Russia, Tuesday, Sept 27, 2022 © 2022 AP Photo Vladimir Putin has just signed a...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Rules Australia Failed to Protect from Climate Change
Click to expand Image A woman walks past palm trees on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, August 9, 2006. © 2006 Andrew Mears/Fairfax Media via Getty Images The United Nations Human Rights Committee...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Conflict Leaves Children without Education
Click to expand Image Children evacuated from their villages after recent clashes on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, are seen in a school which has been turned into a temporary shelter, in the town of...
View ArticleNigeria Agrees to End Military Detention of Children
Click to expand Image Children released from military detention in Nigeria in July 2018. © UNICEF/UN038572/Naftalin In 2019, a colleague and I interviewed dozens of children in northeast Nigeria who...
View ArticleGuinea Stadium Trial to Resume
Click to expand Image Victims and their families of crimes committed during Guinea’s 2009 stadium massacre line up to enter a courthouse in Conakry, Guinea on September 28, 2022 the first day of the...
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