Afghan University Women Feared This Dark Day
Click to expand Image Afghan female students line up at one of Kabul University's gates in Kabul, Afghanistan, February 26, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File Last week, I spoke to 21-year-old...
View ArticleRussia’s Oldest Human Rights Group Faces 'Liquidation'
Click to expand Image Moscow Helsinki Group’s logo. © 2022 Moscow Helsinki Group Last week, Russia’s Justice Ministry filed a petition with the Moscow City Court seeking “liquidation” of the Moscow...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh Lifeline Road Blocked
Click to expand Image Azerbaijanis protesting on the Lachin road, opposite Russian peacekeeping forces, in Nagorno Karabakh, leading to the closure of the road since December 12, 2022. © 2022 Resul...
View ArticleIran: Brutal Repression in Kurdistan Capital
Click to expand Image Iranians protesting in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province, on September 19, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iranian security forces used excessive...
View ArticleUN Security Council: Historic Censure of Myanmar Junta
(New York) – The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on December 21, 2022, denouncing the Myanmar military’s rights violations since the February 1, 2021 coup, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticlePeru: Investigate Killings, Injuries During Protests
Click to expand Image The relatives of 18-year-old Wilfredo Lizarme walk around the city streets with the casket that contains his body, in Andahuaylas, Peru, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Lizarme is one of...
View ArticleIran: ‘Bloody Friday’ Crackdown This Year’s Deadliest
Click to expand Image People protest in Zahedan, Iran, on October 28, 2022. © 2022 Private (Beirut) – Iranian security forces using unlawful lethal force, killed and wounded several dozen protesters...
View ArticleGreece: Migrant Rescue Trial to Begin
Click to expand Image Sean Binder and Sarah Mardini, search-and-rescue volunteers who helped migrants and asylum seekers at sea, were detained and face trial in Greece on unfounded charges. © Private,...
View ArticleNo Reprieve in Burundi
Click to expand Image Tony Germain Nkina. © Private Good news met bad yesterday in Burundi, as the lawyer Tony Germain Nkina continued to be held in prison despite his recent acquittal, meaning his...
View ArticleBelarus: New Laws Target Critics in Exile
Click to expand Image Members of the Belarusian diaspora outside the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Krakow, Poland, October 2, 2022. © 2022 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Vilnius, December 22, 2022)...
View ArticleTurkey: Free Rights Defender
Click to expand Image Şebnem Korur Fincancı © 2022 TİHV (Istanbul, December 22, 2022) – Human Rights Watch joined six other human rights and physicians’ groups on December 22, 2022, in seeking the...
View ArticleRussian Forces Forcibly Disappear Ukrainian Activist
Click to expand Image Photo of Iryna Horobtsova, 2022. © 2022 Private (Kyiv, December 22) – Russian forces forcibly disappeared Iryna Horobtsova, a resident of Kherson, Ukraine, in May 2022, and are...
View ArticleIndia: Data Protection Bill Fosters State Surveillance
Click to expand Image Congress party workers shout slogans during a protest accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents,...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Bill Threatens Freedom of Expression, Media
(Berlin, December 23, 2022) – Uzbekistan’s Information and Mass Communications Agency should withdraw a draft Information Code that, if adopted, would violate freedom of expression, including media...
View ArticleUS Government Action May Expand Abortion Access
Click to expand Image A patient in a Kansas clinic prepares to take the first of two pills for a medical abortion. © 2022 Charlie Riedel/AP Photo The United States government took an important step to...
View ArticleBiden Expands Trump-era Border Restrictions Once Again
Click to expand Image Venezuelans walk near a bridge that crosses the Rio Grande River after being expelled from the United States into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. The Biden...
View ArticleEU: Pass Directive to Protect Workers’ Rights
Click to expand Image An Uber Eats delivery rider waits for orders in Toulouse, France on February 25, 2021. © 2021 Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via AP (Brussels) – The European Union should pass legislation...
View ArticleItaly’s Anti-Rescue Decree Risks Increasing Deaths at Sea
Click to expand Image Migrants swim next to their overturned wooden boat as Spanish NGO Open Arms performs an operation to rescue them, south of the Italian Lampedusa island in the Mediterranean sea,...
View ArticleTanzania Ends Ban on Political Rallies
Click to expand Image Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan (center-right), inspects the honor guard after being sworn in at a ceremony at State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, March 19, 2021. ©...
View ArticleRwanda’s President Politicizes Refugee Rights
Click to expand Image Rwanda's President Paul Kagame listens to questions from journalists during the end of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda, June 25, 2022. ©...
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