Yemen: Houthis Forcibly Disappear Baha’is
Click to expand Image Armed Houthi gunmen stormed a peaceful Baha’i annual general meeting in Sanaa, Yemen, detaining at least 17 including 5 women, May 25, 2023. © 2023 Private (Beirut) – Armed...
View ArticleIndia: Investigate Police Bias Alleged in Manipur Violence
Click to expand Image A vehicle burned during ethnic violence in Imphal, Manipur, India, May 4, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty images (New York) – Indian authorities should immediately and impartially...
View ArticleUganda’s President Signs Repressive Anti-LGBT Law
Click to expand Image Ugandan Members of Parliament stand as they participate during the passing of the anti-Homosexuality bill, at a sitting inside the Parliament Buildings in Kampala, Uganda, May 2,...
View ArticleBrazil’s Lula Misses Crucial Chance to Uphold Rights in Venezuela
Click to expand Image Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva smile at a press conference after their bilateral meeting at Planalto palace in...
View ArticleGulf States: Migrant Workers at Serious Risk from Dangerous Heat
Click to expand Image Workers clean the exterior of the Museum of the Future, currently under construction, in Dubai on November 19, 2020. © Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Migrant workers...
View ArticleKenya: End Abusive Policing of Protests
Click to expand Image A riot police officer fires tear gas at protesters during a mass rally called by the opposition leader Raila Odinga over the high cost of living, in Nairobi, Monday, March 27,...
View ArticleNo Joking Allowed in Vietnam
Click to expand Image The wife, two brothers, and friends of Bui Tuan Lam gather in Da Nang city, Vietnam, to demand his freedom, May 2023. © 2023 Le Thanh Lam The Ministry of Public Security has no...
View ArticlePakistan: Don’t Try Civilians in Military Courts
Click to expand Image Paramilitary troops and police officers stand guard outside a court where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to appear in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 23, 2023....
View ArticleEthiopia: Ethnic Cleansing Persists Under Tigray Truce
Click to expand Image Displaced people from Western Tigray stand outside a school where they are sheltering in Mekele, Ethiopia, February 24, 2021. © 2021 EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images Local...
View ArticleChina: Acknowledge Tiananmen Massacre
Click to expand Image Liu Xiaobo addresses the crowd at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 1, 1989. © 1989 Getty Images/ David Turnley (New York) – Chinese authorities are increasing efforts to erase...
View ArticleAustralia Court Backs Media Reporting on Soldier Killings in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image Ben Roberts-Smith departs the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney, June 9, 2021. © 2021 Sam Mooy/Getty Images An Australian court has sided with three newspapers in a...
View ArticleMarriage Equality Gets a Boost in South Korea
Click to expand Image Participants march during a Pride event in support of LGBT rights in Seoul, South Korea on June 1, 2019. © 2019 Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Image Lawmakers in South Korea have...
View ArticleSudan: Concrete UN Security Council Action Needed
Click to expand Image File photo showing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. © 2016 Andrew Kelly/Reuters (Nairobi) – The United Nations Security Council should take stronger steps to...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Executes Two Shi’a Bahrainis on Terrorism Charges
Click to expand Image People gather around the symbolic graves of Jaafar Sultan (left) and Sadeq Thamer, in Bahrain. © 2023 zainab_alaradii/Twitter Two Bahraini Shi’a men have been executed in...
View ArticleRwanda: Alleged Genocide Mastermind Arrested
Click to expand Image 1994 Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema appears in the Cape Town Magistrates court in Cape Town, South Africa, May 26, 2023. © 2023 REUTERS/Nic Bothma (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleRussia Moves to Ban Trans Health Care
Click to expand Image A Russian transgender woman walks in Saint Petersburg on April 12, 2019. © 2019 Olga Malsteva/AFP via Getty Images Elected officials in Russia have proposed a new law that would...
View ArticleAngola Police Violently Disperse Street Traders’ Protest
Click to expand Image Street vendors serve customers in Luanda, Angola, August 20, 2022. © 2022 Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko by Iracelma Adriano, Intern, Africa DivisionThe Angolan authorities have once...
View ArticleUN Slashes Food Rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh Camps
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees collect boxes of food aid at a distribution point in the Kutupalong camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 14, 2018. © 2018 Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images On...
View ArticleCOP28: Climate Talks Should Ensure Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Click to expand Image Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, the new president of COP28, with the German federal foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, May 3, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleMalawi: Refugees, Including Children, Forcibly Relocated
(Johannesburg) – The Malawi government has detained and forcibly relocated refugees and asylum seekers across the country without regard for their basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today....
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