France Moves to Shut Down Environmental Group
Click to expand Image Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France on March 25, 2023. © 2023 Ugo...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Reject New Counterterrorism Bill
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan rights activists protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Act outside the United Nations office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 3, 2022. © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena/AP...
View ArticleExpulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers Jeopardizes Democracy
Click to expand Image Former Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, and former Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, raise their hands outside the House chamber after Jones and...
View Article20 Years After Deadly Attack, Free Press Still Threatened in Iraq
Click to expand Image A memorial poster for Jose Couso, a Spanish television cameraman killed by a U.S. tank shell which hit Baghdad's Palestine hotel, on a barricade outside the building, April 8,...
View ArticleChina: Quash Convictions of Prominent Rights Lawyers
Click to expand Image Left: Sophie Luo Shengchun, the wife of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, poses with a photo of him at her home in New York, US, July 28, 2022. Right: Chinese legal...
View ArticleIn Conflicting Decisions, Two US Judges Rule on Access to Safe Abortion Drug
Click to expand Image Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at a Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, US, January 13, 2023. ©...
View ArticleTunisia: Free Arbitrarily Detained Ex-Prime Minister
Click to expand Image Then-prime minister of Tunisia, Ali Laarayedh, delivers a speech during a news conference in Tunis, February 22, 2013. © 2013 AP Photo/Hassene Dridi (Tunis) – Tunisian...
View ArticleVietnam: Free Prominent Activist Blogger
Click to expand Image Vietnamese activist and blogger Nguyễn Lân Thắng. © 2012 Nguyễn Lân Thắng (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately drop all charges and release the well-known...
View ArticlePakistan: Farmers Forcibly Evicted for Urban Project
Click to expand Image A farmer herds sheep through farmland in the vicinity of the Ravi River project, in Lahore, Pakistan, December 8, 2021. © 2021 Betsy Joles/Bloomberg via Getty Images (New York,...
View ArticleMalaysia Repeals Mandatory Death Penalty
Click to expand Image An activist during a protest against the death penalty in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 23, 2022. © 2022 Vincent Thian/AP Images (Bangkok) – Malaysia’s abolition of the...
View ArticleBrazil: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights
Click to expand Image Indigenous people call for greater protection of their land and rights at the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia, an annual protest held by Indigenous peoples...
View ArticleUAE: Detainees Held Beyond Sentences
Click to expand Image Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2019. © 2019 Hamad Mohammed/Reuters (Beirut) – United Arab Emirates authorities are continuing to incarcerate at least 51 Emirati...
View ArticleUS Secretary of State Should Press Vietnam on Rights during Visit
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Washington, DC, US, on May 13, 2022. © 2022 Jose Luis Magana/AP Images United...
View ArticleOpposition Figure Convicted in Kazakhstan
Click to expand Image Zhanbolat Mamay, center, sits with his lawyers during a trial hearing in November 2022 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. © 2022 Private On April 10, a court in Almaty, Kazakhstan convicted...
View ArticleThailand: Myanmar Activists Forcibly Returned
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protest against the ruling military junta during a rally to mark the second anniversary of the coup in Myanmar outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand,...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Microsoft Should Hold Off On Data Center
Click to expand Image Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Royal Court, in Riyadh, on January 14, 2019. © 2019 Andrew Cabellero-Reynolds/Pool via AP (Beirut) – Microsoft should suspend its...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority Blocks Registration of Rights Group
Click to expand Image Mohannad Karaje, head of Lawyers for Justice, outside the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. © Private In August 2022, when Israeli authorities raided the offices of...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Torture Center in Kherson
Click to expand Image A pretrial detention facility on Teploenerhetykiv Street in Kherson, Ukraine that was used by Russian forces to torture civilians. © 2022 Roman Baklazhov New evidence has emerged...
View ArticleRussia Bans Key Platform for Civil Society Cooperation
This week, Russia’s prosecutor general designated as “undesirable” the EU-Russian Civil Society Forum, a prominent nongovernmental organization promoting cooperation between Russian and European civil...
View ArticleRussia: Sentencing for Prominent Kremlin Critic
Click to expand Image Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is escorted to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, February 8, 2023 © 2023 AP Photo, File (Berlin, April 14, 2023) – Moscow...
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