Ghana: President Should Veto Anti-LGBT Bill
Click to expand Image Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo delivers his annual state of the nation address to the parliament in Accra, Ghana, March 30, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Francis Kokorok (Nairobi) –...
View ArticleFrance Protects Abortion as a 'Guaranteed Freedom' in Constitution
Click to expand Image A message reading "My body my choice" is projected onto the Eiffel Tower on March 4, 2024. © DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images Yesterday at a special congress in Versailles,...
View ArticleSenegal: Amnesty Bill Opens Door to Impunity
Click to expand Image Detained demonstrators on a police pick up during a protest against the postponement of the February 25, 2024 presidential election, in Dakar, Senegal, on February 9, 2024. ©...
View ArticleVietnam: New Wave of Arrests of Critics
Click to expand Image Hoang Viet Khanh (left), Nguyen Chi Tuyen (middle) carries a No-U banner (No to China’s Nine Dash Line) at Ky Quan San Peak, Vietnam, and Nguyen Vu Binh (right). © Private...
View ArticleNepal: Seize Chance to Ensure Justice for Conflict Atrocities
Click to expand Image NepalI war victim Pabitra Sunakhari shows a photograph of her lost son, Surkhet District, February 2, 2017. © 2017 PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images The Nepali government’s...
View ArticleMalaysia: Abusive Detention of Migrants, Refugees
Click to expand Image Undocumented migrants walk in line while being detained during an immigration raid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 1, 2022. © 2022 Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters The Malaysian...
View ArticleIndonesia Officially Adopts Indonesian Term for ‘Jesus Christ’
Click to expand Image A Christian congregation, which has been trying to secure a building permit since 2018, holds a service in their temporary building in Bogor, near Jakarta. The church uses the...
View ArticleMexico: Trans People Denied Rights in Tabasco State
Click to expand Image “Family Is Like a Circle,” a portrait of Sandra R., a transgender woman interviewed for the report, with her mother and grandmother in Villahermosa. © 2019 Pablo Zarate and Saraí...
View ArticleDR Congo: Second Term Should Focus on Rights
Click to expand Image Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi during his swearing-in ceremony for a second term in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 20, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Guylain Kipoke...
View ArticlePakistan’s Supreme Court Finally Rules on Martial Law-Era Trial
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 20, 2022. © 2022 Anjum Naveed/AP Photo This week, Pakistan’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that the...
View ArticleSri Lankan Laws Threaten Democracy, Warns UN Rights Chief
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, November 16, 2023. © 2023 Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Photo The...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Canada Film Festival Begins This Month
Click to expand Image Still image from the film Mediha. (Toronto) – The annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival, celebrating its 21st year, in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema, will present a...
View ArticleBulgaria: Don’t Deport Saudi Activist
Click to expand Image Abdulrahman al-Khalidi. © Private (Beirut) – Bulgarian authorities should immediately suspend any plans to deport a Saudi human rights activist to Saudi Arabia, Human Rights...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Sealing China Border Worsens Crisis
Click to expand Image North Korean soldiers patrolling on a riverside along fortified fences in the border county of Uiju, North Pyongan province, December 22, 2022. © 2022 Kyodo News/Getty Images...
View ArticleNew Wave of Arrests Targets Journalists and Activists in Azerbaijan
Click to expand Image The police in front of Toplum TV office in Baku, Azerbaijan, March 6, 2024. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images At least six journalists were detained on March 6 in Baku after...
View ArticleWomen’s Voices Have Power to Drive Change
Click to expand Image Activists sing during a rally to support women's rights on International Women's Day in Buenos Aires, March 8, 2023. © 2023 Mariana Nedelcu/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images...
View ArticleWomen with Disabilities are Rights Holders, Not Passive Recipients of Care
Click to expand Image A woman with a disability moves in her wheelchair in a street in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, in June 2021. © NURPHOTO Olga, a 45-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, seldom leaves...
View ArticleHaiti: Urgent Action Needed amid Growing Lawlessness
Click to expand Image A man walks past several cars torched by criminal groups after group members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers around the airport in Delmas 28 district of...
View ArticleFrance: Ensure Muslim Women, Girls Can Play Sports
(Nyon, Switzerland, March 8, 2024) – French basketball authorities should ensure equal access to sport for Muslim women and girls by overturning the discriminatory ban on wearing the hijab, the Sport...
View ArticlePeru: Congress Runs Roughshod Over Rule of Law
Click to expand Image Congress of the Republic of Peru, in Lima, March 6, 2024. © 2024 Congress of the Republic of Peru (Washington, DC) – The decision by Peru’s Congress on March 7, 2024, to...
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