EU Sanctions Congo, Rwanda Army Officers
Click to expand Image Men stand by a mass grave where five men and boys were allegedly executed by the M23 armed group in November 2022 in Kishishe, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, April 5,...
View ArticlePanama: Indigenous Community Needs Further Support to Relocate
Sea level rise and lack of space threaten the rights of people living on the tiny island of Gardi Sugdub and other coastal Indigenous communities in Panama. The community of Gardi Sugdub has planned...
View ArticleEU Should Ban Use of Hazardous Herbicide
Click to expand Image A French farmer sprays glyphosate herbicide in a cornfield in northwestern France, April 23, 2021. © 2021 Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images The European Commission is...
View ArticleAnti-LGBT Rhetoric Undermines Rights in Lebanon
Click to expand Image LGBTQ Rights graffiti spray-painted at a protest site in downtown Beirut. December 22, 2019. © 2019 Marwan Tahtah for Human Rights Watch Anti-gay remarks made on Saturday by a...
View ArticleSenegalese Government Dissolves Opposition Party, Cuts Internet
Click to expand Image Gendarmes are deployed to calm protests after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been detained, in Dakar, Senegal, July 31, 2023. © 2023 Ngouda Dione/Reuters On July 31,...
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities in Gaza Languish after Israeli Airstrikes
Click to expand Image Haneen Nabhan, who has physical and intellectual disabilities, next to the ruins of her family’s home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza, which was destroyed in an Israeli...
View ArticleTajikistan: Extradited Activist at Risk
Click to expand Image Nizomiddin Nasriddinov. © 2023 Private (Berlin, August 2, 2023) – Belarus authorities have extradited Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a Tajik political activist with refugee status in...
View ArticleBangladesh: Excessive Force Against Political Protesters
Click to expand Image Bangladesh Nationalist party activists block a highway entering Bangladesh's capital during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and a general...
View ArticleCambodia: Access to Independent Media Blocked
Click to expand Image Supporters of online media outlet Voice of Democracy (VOD) hold placards in front of VOD office in Phnom Penh on February 13, 2023. © 2023 Suy Se/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleUS at Helm of Security Council amid Rising Global Crises
Click to expand Image inda Thomas -Greenfield, US Ambassador to the UN, updates the press on her agenda as she assumes the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August at the United...
View ArticleGreece: Disparities in Accounts of Pylos Shipwreck Underscore the Need for...
Click to expand Image Rescued migrants shelter at a depot, following a shipwreck off shore in Kalamata , Greece on June 14, 2023. © 2023 Costas Baltas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Brussels) –...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Psychiatrist Jailed after Salary Dispute
(Beirut) – An Egyptian doctor is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia for links with the banned Muslim Brotherhood following what appears to have been an unfair trial, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Repression, Violence Loom over August Election
Click to expand Image Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party supporters protest in front of police after the party was banned from hosting an election campaign rally in Marondera, Zimbabwe, March...
View ArticleLebanon: 3 Years On, No Justice for Beirut Blast
Click to expand Image Smoke rises from the port after the explosion on August 4, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. © 2020 Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Beirut) – Member states of the United Nations...
View ArticleDiscriminatory Policies Trigger Religious Violence in India
Click to expand Image Burnt vehicles are pictured following clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Nuh district of the northern state of Haryana, India, August 1, 2023. © 2023 Adan Abidi/Reuters Bands...
View ArticleUkraine: Apparent Russian Cluster Munition Attack
Click to expand Image A man rides past a place where a woman was killed by an apparent Russian cluster munition strike in Lyman, Donetska region, Ukraine on July 8, 2023. © 2023 STRINGER/AFP via...
View ArticleSudan: New Attacks in Darfur
Click to expand Image A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, walks beside carts carrying her family belongings upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in...
View ArticleRussia: Grim New Sentence for Alexey Navalny
Click to expand Image Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo,...
View ArticleAmazon Summit: Commit to Protect Rainforest, Defenders
(São Paulo) – Latin American countries meeting at the Amazon Summit in Brazil on August 8 and 9, 2023, should commit to ratify and carry out the Escazú Agreement, Human Rights Watch said today as it...
View ArticleTurkey Approves New Coal Mining to Feed Power Plants
Click to expand Image Police used water cannon and teargas against local people and environmental activists who protested against the destruction of the Akbelen forest in Turkey’s western province of...
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