75 years later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return
Click to expand Image Palestinian children return from school to their homes in the Jabalia Refugee Camp on the 74th Anniversary of Nakba Day in the northern Gaza Strip, May 15, 2022. © 2022 Mahmoud...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Wins Two Webby Awards
(New York) – Human Rights Watch has won two 2023 Webby Awards, the leading international prize honoring excellence on the internet.One award is for a series of social media videos that draw attention...
View ArticleChemical Weapons: Protect Integrity of Global Ban
Click to expand Image Government representatives convene for a meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague, Netherlands, November 2019. © 2019 Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu Agency via Getty...
View ArticleLatest de Lima Acquittal Exposes Philippine Justice System’s Politicization
Click to expand Image Duterte critic and former senator Leila de Lima reacts as she leaves the Hall of Justice where she was acquitted of a drug charge in Muntinlupa City, Philippines, May 12, 2023. ©...
View ArticleHard Choices in Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis
Click to expand Image A nongovernmental organization delivers food aid in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 3, 2023. © 2023 Wail Koshar/AP Photo Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the media, but it...
View ArticleAngola: No Letup in Crackdown on Cabinda Activists
Click to expand Image Members of the Independence Movement of Cabinda protesting against the arrest of activist in Cabinda in February 2019. © 2019 Private (Johannesburg) – The Angolan government...
View ArticleEU Approves Law for ‘Deforestation-Free’ Trade
Click to expand Image The Amazon River in the Amazon rainforest, in Leticia, Colombia, April 1, 2023. © 2023 Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Today, the European Union adopted an...
View ArticleRussia Threatens Ukrainians Who Refuse Russian Citizenship
Click to expand Image A newly built apartment block, part of Russia’s efforts to swiftly reconstruct severely damaged Mariupol, occupied by Russia since May 2022, February 15, 2023. © 2023 Alexander...
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities Push for Access to Personal Assistance in Poland
Click to expand Image People with disabilities and supporters protest outside the presidential palace to demand a new law on personal assistance, Warsaw, Poland, May 13, 2023. © 2023 Piotr Kiembłowski...
View ArticleStill No Justice on Sri Lanka War Anniversary
Click to expand Image The beach at Mullivaikkal in northeastern Sri Lanka, where many Tamil civilians were killed during fighting between the Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
View ArticleEgypt: Women Abused Over Alleged ISIS Ties
Click to expand Image A photo published by a pro-army militia Facebook page, Uswod Al-karama, (which was later deleted) showing a group of women and children, whom the group described as the wives and...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Ensure Respect for Civil Society Vision
Click to expand Image People walk past a Vision 2030 banner showing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Jeddah. © 2019 AP Photo/Amr Nabil (Beirut) – Saudi Arabian civil society organizations,...
View ArticleThe Iraqi Government Is Failing Victims of ISIS in Sinjar
Click to expand Image A boy walks on a road at the Mamrashan camp for civilians displaced by war, located a half hour's drive from Dohuk city in Iraq, on January 14, 2017. © 2017 Alice Martins/AP...
View ArticleMexico: States’ Inaction on Legal Capacity
Click to expand Image Hundreds of people with disabilities demonstrate to demand visibility and their right to be included in society, Mexico City, December 4, 2021. © Human Rights Watch 2021 (Mexico...
View ArticleBangladesh: New Risks for Rohingya Refugees
Click to expand Image Repatriation camps built for Rohingya refugees are surrounded by barbed-wire in Rakhine State, Myanmar, January 2018. © 2018 Thein Zaw/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Bangladesh and...
View ArticleIn Praise of Competitive UN Elections
Click to expand Image Valentin Rybakov, permanent representative of Belarus to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security, New York, US,...
View ArticleUAE Invites Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to COP28
Click to expand Image Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates meets with Bashar Al Assad, President of Syria during a reception at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi, United...
View ArticleAustralia: Deliver on Human Rights Pledges
Click to expand Image Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media in London, May 5, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Frank Augstein (Sydney) – Australia’s Labor Party government of Prime...
View ArticleCyclone Mocha Devastates Myanmar’s Rohingya
Click to expand Image Rohingya women at their shelter destroyed by Cyclone Mocha in Basara camp in Sittwe, Myanmar, May 16, 2023. © 2023 Sai Aung Main/AFP via Getty Images Cyclone Mocha made landfall...
View ArticlePakistan: Mass Arrests Target Political Opposition
Click to expand Image Police detain a supporter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan during clashes, in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 12, 2023. © 2023 W.K. Yousafzai/AP Photo (New York) –...
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