'Hugs Not Walls' an Inspiration for US Immigration Policy
Click to expand Image Immigrant families separated by immigration status, lack of visas, or deportations, are briefly reunited in the dry Rio Grande riverbed on the U.S.-Mexico border on May 12, 2018,...
View ArticleIran: Overseer of Mass Executions Elected President
Click to expand Image Ebrahim Raeesi, a candidate in the 2017 presidential elections, addresses his supporters during a campaign rally at Imam Khomeini Mosque in the capital, Tehran, on May 16, 2017....
View ArticleHow Countries Can Do Better on World Refugee Day
Click to expand Image Demonstrators mark World Refugee Day, June 20, 2020, on the streets of Athens. © 2020 Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via AP Photo This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Refugee...
View ArticleSudan’s Planned Joint Force Threatens Rights-Abiding Transition
Click to expand Image A Sudanese soldier from the Rapid Support Forces or RSF stands on his vehicle during a military-backed tribe's rally in the East Nile province, Sudan on June 22th, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleEU Should Make Human Rights Core in Agenda with Turkey
Click to expand Image Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, March 9, 2020. ©...
View ArticleUAE: Arbitrary Targeting of Pakistani Shia Residents
Click to expand Image © Getty Images (Beirut) – United Arab Emirates authorities have forcibly disappeared at least four Pakistani men since October 2020 and deported at least six others without...
View ArticleNicaragua: Crackdown on Critics Ahead of Election
Click to expand Image National police officers beat opposition member Valeska Valle and other demonstrators taking part in a "National sit-in" protest against President Daniel Ortega's government in...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Children Detained, Tortured for Insurgent Links
Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Afghan government should release children detained for alleged association with armed insurgent groups and work with the United Nations...
View ArticleGuatemala: 3 Killings of LGBT People in a Week
Click to expand Image Andrea González © OTRANS Queens of the Night (OTRANS Reinas de la Noche) (New York) – Unidentified assailants killed two transgender women and one gay man in Guatemala in...
View ArticleMyanmar: Teenager Describes Torture, Mock Burial
Click to expand Image Police gather outside the Kamayut court in Yangon, Myanmar, March 12, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s security forces have arbitrarily detained thousands of people...
View ArticleILO Slams Kazakhstan for Long-Standing Labor Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image A worker prepares pipes to service an oil well on oil fields operated by a subsidiary of the KazMunayGas Exploration Production JSC in Kyzylorda region, southern Kazakhstan on...
View ArticleFirst Conviction for Dictatorship Crimes in Brazil
Click to expand Image Demonstrators show photos of people killed during Brazil's dictatorship outside a police station that used to be a torture center used by the dictatorship in Sao Paulo, Brazil on...
View ArticleSpate of Antisemitic Attacks in US During Recent Mideast Tensions
Click to expand Image Police stand guard in front of the Young Israel of Riverdale synagogue where glass windows were smashed in New York on April 25, 2021. © 2021 Lev Radin/Sipa USA/AP Images On May...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Create New Role on Human Rights and Climate Change
Click to expand Image After years of very little rainfall, the lakebed of Suesca lagoon sits dry and cracked, in Suesca, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. The basin which is dependent on runoff...
View ArticleEU Should Hold Firm against the Kremlin’s 'Flywheel of Repression'
Click to expand Image EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at a news conference unveiling a report on proposals for the EU stance on Russia. Brussels, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. © 2021 Johanna...
View ArticleMalaysia Should Legally Recognize Transgender People
Click to expand Image Transgender people in Malaysia face discrimination and abuses by government officials and agents, including public sector medical staff, teachers and local government officials....
View ArticleCambodia: Free Environmental Activists
Click to expand Image Mother Nature Cambodia activist Sun Ratha waves to her family as she is brought to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on June 19, 2021. © 2021 LICADHO (Bangkok) – The Cambodian...
View ArticleDiscrimination in Tanzania’s Schools Ruining Girls’ Lives
Click to expand Image © 2017 Marco Tibasima for Human Rights Watch Tanzania’s first woman president, Samia Suluhu, took office in March 2021. Her administration has the opportunity to call on...
View ArticleFrontex Failing to Protect People at EU Borders
Click to expand Image A Portuguese vessel in a Frontex operation in Lesbos, Greece, 2016. © 2016 Frontex (Brussels) – The European Union border guard agency’s oversight mechanisms have failed to...
View ArticleUN Head Urges India to Join Safe Schools Declaration
Click to expand Image An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard during a search operation in Srinagar, Kashmir, in August 2018. © 2018 Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo United Nations Secretary-General Antonio...
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