Japan Police Accused of Racial Profiling
Click to expand Image The plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging racial profiling filed in Tokyo, Japan, January 29, 2024. © 2024 Ayaka McGill/AP Photo Three ethnic minority residents of Japan filed a...
View ArticleDR Congo: Free Prominent Journalist, Drop Charges
Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd (Kinshasa) – The Democratic Republic of Congo authorities should immediately and...
View ArticleMalawi Military’s Threats Send Journalist into Hiding
Click to expand Image Malawi's newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera takes the oath of office in Lilongwe, Malawi, Sunday June 28, 2020. © AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi A top investigative journalist in...
View ArticleTürkiye: Ensure Accountability for Deaths in Earthquake
Click to expand Image A man beside the rubble of a building in Antakya, southern Türkiye, on March 6, 2023, one month after the devastating earthquakes in which over 50,000 people died and hundreds of...
View ArticleBurkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Quit Regional Bloc
Click to expand Image West African leaders before an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, August 10, 2023. © 2023 Abraham Achirga/Reuters On January 28, the...
View ArticleAnother Niger Media Organization Suspended
Click to expand Image Police officers on the sidelines of a march in support of the coup plotters in Niger’s capital, Niamey, July 30, 2023. © 2023 Djibo Issifou/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The...
View ArticleStill No Justice for Slain Lebanese Researcher’s Family
Click to expand Image Mourners and activists at a monument for Lokman Slim during his memorial service, Beirut, Lebanon, February 11, 2021. © 2021 Hussein Malla/AP Photo Three years ago today,...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Women’s Rights Activist Targeted with Dubious Fraud Charges
Click to expand Image Dinara Smailova in spring 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. © 2019 @ Almat Mukhametjanov, Private Archive. (Berlin, February 5, 2023) – Kazakhstan authorities should guarantee that...
View ArticleAustralia’s Myanmar Sanctions, a Step Forward
Click to expand Image Australia was among a host of countries that imposed fresh sanctions on Myanmar on February 1, the third anniversary of the military coup. The government added five businesses to...
View ArticleThe Price of Defiance in Russia
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, Moscow, Russia, November 14, 2023. © 2023 Hannah Wagner/picture-alliance-dpa/AP Photo Amid the Kremlin’s vicious drive to eliminate dissent,...
View ArticleElection Delay in Senegal Puts Rights at Risk
Click to expand Image Gendarmes clash with Senegalese demonstrators during a protest against the postponement of the February 25th presidential election, in Dakar, Senegal, February 4, 2024. © 2024...
View ArticleJapan Police Accused of Racial Profiling
Click to expand Image The plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging racial profiling filed in Tokyo, Japan, January 29, 2024. © 2024 Ayaka McGill/AP Photo Three ethnic minority residents of Japan filed a...
View ArticleAustralia’s Myanmar Sanctions, a Step Forward
Click to expand Image Australia was among a host of countries that imposed fresh sanctions on Myanmar on February 1, the third anniversary of the military coup. The government added five businesses to...
View ArticleJordan: Arrests, Harassment of Pro-Palestine Protesters
Click to expand Image People attend a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza in Amman, Jordan, November 24, 2023. © 2023 Alaa Al Sukhni/Reuters (Amman) – Jordanian authorities have arrested and...
View ArticleGreece: Rule of Law Threatened
Click to expand Image A woman reads newspaper's headlines referring to the killing of a Greek journalist in Athens on April 10, 2021. © 2021 LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images (Athens, February 6,...
View ArticleUN Security Council Should Act Against Abusers in Sudan
Click to expand Image Members meet for a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York City, July 17, 2023. © 2023 Spencer Platt/Getty Images The UN Security Council Panel of Experts of Sudan...
View ArticleUN Expert Slams Philippines ‘Red-Tagging’
Click to expand Image Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, holds a news conference during an official visit to the Philippines, in Mandaluyong, Manila, Philippines,...
View ArticleUS: Human Rights Guide to 2024 Elections
Click to expand Image A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images (Washington, February 7, 2024) – Human Rights Watch on...
View ArticleUkraine: New Findings on Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol
Click to expand Image Universytets’ka Street in central Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 10, 2022, a day after Russian aircraft attacked the area. © 2022 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka The Russian assault on...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Baseless ‘Extremism’ Case Heads to Court
Click to expand Image Duman Mukhammedkarim. May, 2023. © Nurtay Lakhanuly (RFE/RL) (Berlin, February 8, 2024) – A journalist in Kazakhstan is to face trial on February 12, 2024 on unfounded...
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