Lebanon: Refugees, Migrants Left Behind in Vaccine Rollout
Click to expand Image A nurse prepares a Covid-19 vaccine syringe at the Saint George Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon on February 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Hussein Malla (Beirut) – The Lebanese...
View ArticleCambodia: ‘Stop Covid-19’ System Raises Privacy Concerns
Click to expand Image Cambodian school girls walk home at the end of their school day outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2021 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – The Cambodian government’s “Stop Covid-19”...
View ArticleHow to Chart an Equitable Exit from the Pandemic
Click to expand Image A person in Soweto, South Africa receives an injection as they participate in a clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine in June 2020. © 2020 Siphiwe Sibeko/AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleAfghanistan: UN Should Ensure Women’s Full Role in Talks
Click to expand Image UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 14, 2017. © 2017 KYDPL KYODO (New York) – Women should have full participation in...
View ArticleCounterterrorism Police ‘Clean Up’ After Tibetan Monk’s Death
Following the January 19 death in police custody of a teenage Tibetan monk, Chinese authorities have commenced an operation to “clean up” Tibetan homes in the grassland town of Dza Wonpo, Sichuan...
View ArticleNew Laws Further Stifle Freedom of Speech in Belarus
Click to expand Image Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Barysevich, right, and Dr. Artsiom Sorokin attend a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, 19 February, 2021. © 2021 Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo...
View ArticleSyria: Government Stealing Opponents’ Land
Click to expand Image Syrian farmers harvest olives in Idlib, Syria on November 21, 2020. Despite the negative effects of fertilization, tree pruning and transportation costs as well as the increase...
View ArticleChad: Pre-Election Crackdown on Opponents
Click to expand Image People in the streets of N'Djamena, Chad’s capital, protest against President Idriss Déby Itno running for a sixth term in the April 11, 2021 election. © Private, March 27, 2021,...
View ArticleMinimize Civilian Harm in Eastern Ukraine Conflict
Click to expand Image A Ukrainian soldier watches guard with a machine gun in his shelter near the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine, March 5, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka,...
View ArticleUN Chief Should Support Remote Investigation in Xinjiang
Click to expand Image A guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux, western China's Xinjiang region, December 3, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Ng Han...
View ArticleUS: End Misguided Public Health Border Expulsions
Click to expand Image An asylum seeking family from Guatemala stands on the Paso del Norte international bridge. After border agents turned the family away at the port of entry, the family swam across...
View ArticleAnother Woman Killed in Scourge of Kyrgyzstan ‘Bride Kidnappings’
Click to expand Image People attend a rally for the protection of women's rights in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, protesting the kidnapping and killing of Aizada Kanatbekova, April 8, 2021. The banner reads,...
View ArticleUS: Congress Advances Slavery Reparations Bill
Click to expand Image A sculpture of African slaves by Ghanaian artist, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, at the beginning of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. © Dreisen Heath/Human...
View ArticleBrazil: Remove Miners from Indigenous Amazon Territory
Click to expand Image Building that houses the Munduruku Wakoborun Women’s Association in the Jacareacanga municipality, state of Pará, damaged on March, 25, 2021. © Archive MPF/PA. (São Paulo, April...
View ArticleVictims of Sudan Crackdown on Protests Await Justice
Click to expand Image Sudanese celebrate after officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday,...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Leader Warns of Famine
Click to expand Image North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a closing speech at the Sixth Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 8, 2021. ©...
View ArticleClosing Camps Won’t Solve Kenya’s Refugee Problem
Click to expand Image An aerial picture shows a section of the Hagadera camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border, May 8, 2015. © 2015 Reuters The Kenyan government has again issued an ultimatum to...
View ArticleBring Ukrainian Women, Children Home from Syria
Click to expand Image A boy flies a homemade kite in the foreigners’ section of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on March 15, 2021. © 2021 Sam Tarling (Berlin) – Regional authorities in northeast Syria...
View ArticleChechen Asylum Seeker Deported to Russia Arbitrarily Detained
Magomed Gadaev, 37, an asylum seeker from Chechnya and key witness in a high-profile torture case against Chechnya’s leadership, was abducted by Chechen security officials on April 11, two days after...
View ArticleCameroon: Wave of Arrests, Abuse Against LGBT People
Click to expand Image Njeuken Loic (known as “Shakiro”) and Mouthe Roland (known as “Patricia”), two transgender women, in a Douala prison. © Private, Douala, Cameroon, March 2021 (Nairobi) –...
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