Japan’s New Rights Guidelines Could Help Clean Up Car Industry
Click to expand Image Toyota electric vehicles are displayed at Odaiba Showroom in Tokyo, December 14, 2021. © The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP Images New Japanese government guidelines on business and human...
View ArticleMyanmar: Military Used Japan-Funded Ships
Click to expand Image Officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo (Tokyo) – Myanmar’s junta used...
View ArticleUS Stops Funding Some Militaries Using Child Soldiers
Click to expand Image A young boy with Islamist al-Shabab fighters during military exercises in Mogadishu, Somalia, January 2010. © 2010 Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo The Biden administration is...
View ArticleFIFA Should Commit to Remedy Abuses Ahead of World Cup in Qatar
Click to expand Image FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the DECC in Doha, Qatar March 2022. © 2022 DDP Images/AP Photo At the World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha on October 7, FIFA President...
View ArticleUS Launches Promising Human Rights Reporting Tool
Click to expand Image The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the US State Department, in Washington, DC, March 9, 2009. © 2009 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The United States Department of...
View ArticleQatar/FIFA: Address Demands of Migrant Worker Strikes
Click to expand Image Former short-term visa holders who had signed 2-year employment contracts but were sent back to Nepal within months. They had paid upward of US$1,138 as recruitment fees. © 2022...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Resistance Means Women
Click to expand Image Afghan women display placards and chant slogans a day after a suicide bomb attack at Dasht-e-Barchi learning center, in Kabul on October 1, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images The...
View ArticleUS: Public Housing Eviction Concerns in New Mexico
Click to expand Image Roger Chavez stands outside of the garden he made beside his home, which he dedicated to his son who passed away in a car accident. © 2022 Human Rights Watch (Washington) –...
View ArticleIn Iran, Schoolgirls Leading Protests for Freedom
Click to expand Image Iranian schoolgirls stand without their mandatory hijabs, singing what has come to be the anthem of the Iran protests, Shervin Hajipour’s song “Baraye”. Source:...
View ArticleUS, French Politicians Urge FIFA to Remedy Migrant Worker Abuses in Qatar
Click to expand Image Workers walk to the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar, December 2019. © 2019 Hassan Ammar/AP Photo US Representative Jan Schakowsky alongside...
View ArticleUS Should Prioritize Rights in its Relationship with Uganda
Click to expand Image US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, left, and Natalie E. Brown, US Ambassador to Uganda, speaking to the media at the residence of the US Ambassador to...
View ArticleThe Right to Housing is on the Ballot in Los Angeles
Click to expand Image An encampment on Beaudry Avenue along Interstate 110 in downtown Los Angeles, May 2020. © 2020 Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo This November, voters in the United States city of Los...
View ArticleGlobal Scrutiny of China Abuses Within Reach
Click to expand Image Chinese Ambassador Chen Xu speaking during the vote on the Human Rights Council decision, Geneva, October 6, 2022. © 2022 UN Human Rights Council Last week’s narrow vote at the...
View ArticleSomalia: Free Detained Journalist
(Nairobi) – The Somali authorities should immediately release a prominent journalist and media rights advocate who is being held and investigated on apparently politically motivated allegations....
View ArticleTurkey: Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments
Click to expand Image Opposition Republican People's Party deputies hold signs in protest of a government-backed bill that criminalizes "disinformation," at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in...
View ArticleVideo Shows Azerbaijan Forces Executing Armenian POWs
Click to expand Image Smoke plumes and burn scars emerging around the Mets Ishkhanasar Mountain, as of September 13 2022, 09:19 am CET (11:19 am local time) . Satellite image © 2022 Planet Labs PBC....
View ArticleHonduras Should Commit to Protecting Women’s and Girls’ Rights
Click to expand Image Women participate in a march in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, for International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019. Some wear green handkerchiefs, a symbol of the abortion...
View ArticleWanted Ex-Intelligence Chief Returns to Congo
Click to expand Image Kalev Mutond, former director of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Intelligence Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements). Last week Kalev Mutond, the former director...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Rights Setbacks for People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image A student with a white cane arrives at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2, 2012. © 2012 Omar Sobhani/Reuters Afghanistan started celebrating White Cane Safety Day in...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Don’t Deport Activists to Uzbekistan
Click to expand Image President Kassymjomar Tokayev of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyev sign a bilateral agreement in Tashkent on April 15, 2019. © 2019 Uzbekistani...
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