Brazil: Ensure Justice for Attack on Democratic Institutions
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should thoroughly...
View ArticleAmericas: Address Poverty, Corruption, Insecurity
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (New York) – Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean...
View ArticleRussia: War's Supersized Repression
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a man holding a poster that reads "no war" during an unsanctioned protest on March,13,2022 at Manezhnaya Square in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia....
View ArticleCentral Asia: Violent Response to Protests Fuels Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Riot police block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Authorities in...
View ArticleEU: Ukraine Response Shows Principled Approach Possible
Click to expand Image Ukrainian refugees at a Paris train station, Paris, France on April 30, 2022. © 2022 Pierrick Villette/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – The European Union and...
View ArticleTurkey: Tightened Control in Election Run-Up
Click to expand Image Opposition members of parliament hold up placards protesting the Erdoğan government’s proposed law to criminalize disinformation and tighten control over social media as an...
View ArticleBelarus: Zone of Repression
Click to expand Image Protesters display broken paper prison bars representing the Belarusian population in prisons and the lack of freedom in Belarus, in Krakow, Poland on August 9, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Issues Damning Verdict for UK
Click to expand Image Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity on November 8, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. © 2022 Matthew Horwood/Getty Images (London) – The United...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians
Click to expand Image A family walks amid destroyed military vehicles in Bucha, near Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Felipe Dana. (Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has...
View ArticleOne Year On: Documenting Koblenz
Click to expand Image Visitors in the courtroom public gallery in Koblenz, Germany on June 16, 2021. Illustration © 2021 Moner Alkadri for Human Rights Watch (Berlin) – Judicial officials in Germany...
View ArticleSea Rescuers Still Waiting for Justice in Greece
Sarah Mardini and Sean Binder were thrown in jail on baseless charges for helping rescue migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea in August 2018. Four years and four months later, they and...
View ArticleBangladesh: Rampant Police Abuse of Rohingya Refugees
Click to expand Image Police officers stand guard in front of Rohingya refugees at Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 30, 2021. © 2021 Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto via AP (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleProminent Pakistan Rights Lawyer Gunned Down in Court
Click to expand Image Abdul Latif Afridi. © 2022 Facebook/Abdul Latif Afridi The respected lawyer and human rights defender Abdul Latif Afridi was shot and killed inside the Peshawar High Court on...
View ArticleCanada Sanctions Two Sri Lankan Ex-Presidents for Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 9, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File The Canadian government has taken a major...
View ArticleBiden is Right: US Congress Should Protect People from Tech Abuse
Click to expand Image A man looks at the apps on his phone, 2022. © 2022 Silas Stein/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images In an opinion piece published last week in the Wall Street Journal, United States...
View ArticleDéjà Vu In Front of the Tunisian Courthouse
Click to expand Image Lawyer Ayachi Hammami before his court hearing for speech offenses, Tunis, January 9, 2023. © 2023 Eric Goldstein/HRW During the long presidency of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali,...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament: Wrong Response to ‘Qatargate’ Scandal
Click to expand Image Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, center, meets the presidents of political groups in a special meeting to decide the impeachment of the vice president, Eva...
View ArticlePolitician Convicted for Harming Rwanda’s Image
Click to expand Image Théophile Ntirutwa. © Private The conviction of a Rwandan opposition politician for allegedly tarnishing the country’s image is an example of the government’s longstanding misuse...
View ArticleMajor Victory for Immigrant Workers in the US
Click to expand Image Farm workers in an okra field near Coachella, California, July 13, 2022. © 2022 Mario Tama/Getty Images In a major victory for workers, the United States Department of Homeland...
View ArticleGermany/Gambia: Migrant Massacre Survivor to Testify
Click to expand Image Massacre survivor Martin Kyere testifies before the Gambia truth commission, March 2021. © 2021 Kerr Fatou (Berlin) A Ghanaian citizen who survived the massacre of approximately...
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