Tunisia: Authoritarian Drift Erodes Rights
Click to expand Image Migrants hold placards reading "Black Lives Matter", left in French, during a gathering in Sfax, Tunisia's eastern coast, on July 7, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo (Tunis) – Tunisia...
View ArticleSyria: Abuses Persist Amid Economic Crisis
Click to expand Image A destroyed tent can be seen as a result of a missile attack targeted a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Idlib city by the Syrian government. © 2023 Anas...
View ArticleUS: Little Progress on Persistent Rights Challenges
Click to expand Image A migrant embraces his son after finishing the long journey to the US from Venezuela, in Eagle Pass, Texas, September 25, 2023. © 2023 Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via...
View ArticleUAE: Hosting COP28 Amid Longstanding Repression
Click to expand Image The Al Wasl Dome at Expo City during the COP28 UN Climate Summit, December 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. © 2023 AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool (Beirut) – The United Arab...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Renewed Engagement Offers Rights Opportunities
Click to expand Image More than 1000 people gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan on International Women’s Day to protest against sexual abuse and domestic violence, March 8, 2023. © 2023 ANTON...
View ArticleBelarus: Crackdown Amid Growing Information Vacuum
Click to expand Image Activists gather in support of ‘Freedom to Political Prisoners of Belarus’ on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the Market Square in Krakow, Poland . © 2023 Artur Widak via Getty Images...
View ArticleRussia: New Heights on Repression
Click to expand Image Aleksandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician facing charges of spreading false information about the army after replacing supermarket price tags with slogans...
View ArticleUK Government Severely Eroded Human Rights in 2023
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards outside the UK’s Supreme Court as it rules that the UK Government's Rwanda asylum plan is unlawful, London, United Kingdom, November 15, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticlePoliticized Courts, Muzzled Media as Türkiye Reaches 100
Click to expand Image A woman waits beside a building that collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes that devastated provinces of southern Türkiye and killed over 50,000 people, injuring and displacing...
View ArticleEU: Falling Short of Protecting Those Most in Need
Click to expand Image People take part in a march on the 34th anniversary of the first democratic elections in postwar Poland, in Warsaw, Poland, June 4, 2023. © 2023 REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (Brussels,...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine: Unprecedented Killings, Repression
Click to expand Image A resident walks amid the rubble of residential buildings after Israeli airstrikes in al-Zahra neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, October 19, 2023. © 2023 Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu...
View ArticleAsia: Regional Leadership Needed on Human Rights
Click to expand Image (Top left) Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan from Pakistan, in Torkham, Afghanistan, November 3, 2023. (Top Right) Homes destroyed after airstrikes and shelling in Mung Lai...
View ArticleBrazil: Mixed Rights Record for Lula’s First Year
Click to expand Image Activists protest to demand the end to racism and police violence, after a series of cases in several states of excessive, often deadly, force by police, São Paulo, Brazil,...
View ArticleMyanmar Filmmaker Sentenced to Life in Prison
Click to expand Image Prison officials outside of Insein prison in Yangon, February 12, 2022. © 2022 Stringer /AFP via Getty Images On January 10, a Myanmar military court closed to the public...
View ArticleLebanon: Gaddafi Son Wrongfully Held for 8 Years
Click to expand Image Hannibal Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Tripoli, Libya, June 30, 2010. © 2010 REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny (Beirut) – Lebanese authorities should immediately...
View ArticleIndonesia: Protect Newly Arrived Rohingya Refugees
Click to expand Image Ethnic Rohingya women and children board a truck as they are being relocated from their temporary shelter at the basement of a community hall following a protest rejecting...
View ArticleGlobal Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away
Read a text description of this video SOUNDBITE: Tirana Hassan, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, 2024-01-03, New York (USA):From renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas to the tremendous...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Immediately Cease Harassment of Independent Media
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a journalist covering a protest near the government building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, January 10, 2023. Protesters demanded the release of detained members...
View ArticleSaudi Government Uses European Football to Sportswash its Reputation
Click to expand Image Inter Milan's players lift the trophy to celebrate winning the Italian SuperCup football match at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on January 18, 2023. © 2023 Fayes...
View ArticleThe EU Deserves Credit for Helping to Protect Democracy in Guatemala
Click to expand Image Bernardo Arévalo, Guatemala's incoming president, center, leads demonstrators during a protest at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 7, 2023. ©...
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