Iraq: Security Forces Open Fire on Kirkuk Protesters
Click to expand Image Iraqi security forces near the Kirkuk castle in Kirkuk, Iraq, September 7, 2023. © 2023 Ali Makram Ghareeb/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iraqi security forces...
View ArticleMexico’s Supreme Court Orders Federal Decriminalization of Abortion
Click to expand Image Women take part in a protest during the International Safe Abortion Day at the Zocalo main square, in Mexico City, Mexico on September 28, 2022. © 2022 Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu...
View ArticleVietnam: Biden Should Raise Rights on Hanoi Visit
Click to expand Image Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, left, speaks before a luncheon with then United States Vice President Joe Biden at the US State Department,...
View ArticleTajikistan: Free Political Activist and Drop Charges
Click to expand Image Nizomiddin Nasriddinov. © 2023 Private (Berlin, September 11, 2023) – The Tajik authorities should drop trumped up charges against Nizomiddin Nasriddinov and immediately release...
View ArticleAustralia: Rights at Core of Voice Referendum
Click to expand Image A member of the Gamay Dancers, a group performing in the Dharawal language, studies the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a document calling for an Indigenous Voice to Australia’s...
View ArticleChinese Activist Paying Terrible Price for Public Health Advocacy
Click to expand Image Zhang Zhan, an activist who criticized the Chinese government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and is being held in a Shanghai prison. © Private/Twitter Zhang Zhan should...
View ArticleBrazil: Prosecutors Should Lead Police Killings Inquiries
Click to expand Image People gathered in a protest against police violence and structural racism hold signs, one of them reading "Black Lives Matter", Rio de Janeiro, May 31, 2021 © 2021 AP...
View ArticleSetting the Record Straight on Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Purge
Today, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a ruling in the case of Maxim Lapunov, the only victim of Chechnya’s vile 2017 anti-gay purge who dared seek justice for the torture he suffered at...
View ArticleJoining Forces for the Right to Social Security
Click to expand Image Video still from Human Rights 101 | What is the right to social security? © 2023 Human Rights Watch As protestors voice their anger against inequality and the rising cost of...
View ArticleSudan: Global Leaders Warn of Inaction in Face of Atrocities
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 ArticleLebanon: New School Year at Risk
Click to expand Image Chairs are placed on classroom tables at a closed public school in Beirut, Lebanon September 22, 2022. © 2022 Mohamed Azakir/Reuters (Beirut) – Lebanese Education Ministry and...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Investment Fund Linked to Abuses
Click to expand Image Golfers walk on the 16th hole during the LIV Golf Invitational at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, October 16, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleBhutan: Freed Political Prisoner Describes Dire Conditions
Click to expand Image Madhukar Monger at Beldangi refugee camp, Nepal, August 2023. © 2023 Global Campaign for the Release of Political Prisoners in Bhutan (New York) – A released political prisoner...
View ArticleHong Kong Unleashes Courts against Children’s Sheep Fiction
Click to expand Image Children’s books about a village of sheep that has come under the scrutiny of Hong Kong’s National Security Law, July 22, 2021. © 2021 Vincent Yu/AP Photo Each day seems to bring...
View ArticleKenya: Ban Use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides
Click to expand Image A man sprays pesticides at a maize farm in Nakuru, Kenya, April 28, 2020. © 2020 Sipa via AP Images (Nairobi, September 14, 2023) – A study released on September 13, 2023, in...
View ArticleUK: Children and Families Seeking Asylum Face Dire Conditions
Click to expand Image A woman and her three children share a single room in their government-assigned temporary housing for families seeking asylum, east London, May 2022. © 2022 Michael Garcia...
View ArticlePoland: Abortion Witch Hunt Targets Women, Doctors
Click to expand Image People demonstrate outside a police station during 'Solidarity with Joanna' protest in Krakow, Poland on July 25, 2023. © 2023 Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) –...
View ArticleBangladesh: Social Audits Shortchange Workers
Click to expand Image Labor Day protest organized by the National Garment Workers Federation for a higher minimum wage and the right to organize, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 1, 2023. © 2023 National...
View ArticleAlgeria: Halt Assault on Fundamental Freedoms
An Algerian demonstrator holds the Algerian national flag as he stage a protest against the government in Algiers, Algeria, Friday, Nov.29, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Toufik Doudou (Beirut) – The Algerian...
View ArticleBangladesh: Quash Conviction and Release Rights Defenders
Click to expand Image Adilur Rahman Khan arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 2023. © 2023 Odhikar/FIDH (New York) – Bangladesh authorities should immediately release the human rights defenders...
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