Mozambican Journalist Feared Forcibly Disappeared in Cabo Delgado
Click to expand Image Arlindo Chissale, pictured on the right, in a photo uploaded to Facebook on October 19, 2022. © 2022 Arlindo Chisalle Another journalist has gone missing in Mozambique’s...
View ArticleWhy is Qatar Opposing a Remedy Fund for Migrant Workers?
Click to expand Image Parents of Ram Kishun Sahani, a Nepali migrant worker who died in Qatar. © 2022 Private Qatar’s Labour Minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri rejected creating a remedy fund for...
View ArticleFrance: Conviction for Atrocities in Liberia
Click to expand Image A courtroom sketch showing Kunti Kamara addressing the Paris Criminal Court during his trial, October 2022. © 2022 Civitas Maxima / JP Kalonji The conviction of a former...
View ArticleDivisive Rhetoric in UK Emboldens Extremists, Endangers Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image The gate near the migrant processing center in Dover, England, October 31, 2022. © 2022 Kin Cheung/AP Photo An arson attack against a migrant processing center in Dover,...
View ArticleIran: Thousands of Detained Protesters and Activists in Peril
Click to expand Image Iranians protesting in Tehran, Iran, on October 1, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Middle East Images (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have escalated their assault against widespread...
View ArticleThe Netherlands Joins in Repatriations from Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image A boy lugs water in Roj camp in northeast Syria, May 2022. © 2022 San Saravan for HRW This week, the Netherlands took the significant step of repatriating 12 Dutch women and...
View ArticleAustralia: Flood Response Failed to Protect Most at Risk
Click to expand Image Photos from Lismore, Australia, May 2022. (L) During the Lismore flooding, David, a 61-year-old man with a physical disability who uses a wheelchair, was trapped in his house as...
View ArticleEthiopia: Truce Needs Robust Rights Monitoring
Click to expand Image Redwan Hussein (2nd L), Representative of the Ethiopian government, and Getachew Reda (2nd R), Representative of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), sign a “cessation of...
View ArticleBrazil: Lula Should Urgently Address Amazon Crisis
Click to expand Image Deforested area in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, located in the Brazilian states of Roraima and Amazonas, in June 2021. © 2021 Gabriel Chaim (São Paulo) – Brazil’s...
View ArticleCurtailing Environmental Harms in Armed Conflict
Click to expand Image A slime-pit from a local phenol manufacturing plant on the outskirts of New York, formerly Novgorodske, on the front line in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, July 2021. ©...
View ArticleEgypt: Arrests, Curbs on Protests As COP27 Nears
Click to expand Image Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1, 2021. © 2021 Yves...
View ArticleNo Justice in Afghanistan for Slain Journalist 2 Years On
Click to expand Image Yama Siawash, 36, was known among Afghans for engaging in heated debates with government officials on live television. © 2020 Yama Siawash Two years ago today, former Tolo News...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Police Abuses in Autonomous Region Protests
Click to expand Image Uzbekistan security forces fired projected flash/bang grenades at protesters in Kanlykul, Karakalpakstan, July 2022. © 2022 BaseKZ (Berlin) – Uzbek security forces unjustifiably...
View ArticleSyria: Parties to Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic
Click to expand Image A mother holds her child diagnosed with cholera in a hospital in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on September 29, 2022. © 2022 Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are...
View ArticleIs Germany Finally Dealing With Its Abusive Colonial History?
Click to expand Image The Cameroon Minister of External Relations, H.E. Lejeune Mbella Mbella, and Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office, Katja Keul, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, October...
View ArticleGreece’s Surveillance Scandal Puts Rights At Risk
Click to expand Image A woman reads newspaper's headlines referring to the killing of a Greek journalist in Athens on April 10, 2021. © 2021 LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images A European...
View ArticleUS Delegation Makes Historic Visit to International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong A bipartisan United States congressional delegation recently visited The...
View ArticleEuropean Football Group Demands FIFA Remedy Migrant Worker Abuses
Click to expand Image Workers lay the turf inside the Lusail Stadium, the venue for the 2022 Qatar World Cup final, in Lusail, Qatar, November 18, 2021. © 2021 Reuters/Hamad I Mohammed Last Sunday,...
View ArticleThe Ugandan Youth Activists Urging Action at COP27
Click to expand Image Fridays for Future Uganda activists Hilda Flavia Nakabuye and Patience Nabukalu protest the construction of a new pipeline, the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), in April...
View ArticleChagos Islands: Include Long-Expelled Residents in Negotiations
Click to expand Image Rosemond Sameenaden joins other Chagos islanders outside the High Court, London, where they are fighting the UK government for the reinstatement of their homeland. © 2019 Fiona...
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