Ethiopia: Protect People as Tigray Crisis Escalates
Click to expand Image Ethiopian women who fled fighting in Tigray region at a refugee camp in the Sudanese border town of al-Fashqa, November 13, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleMan Killed for Protecting Symbols of Peaceful Protests in Belarus
Raman Bandarenka died yesterday as a result of a vicious beating by a group of unidentified assailants in the capital of Belarus. Today, thousands of peaceful protestors across the country demanded...
View ArticleCurbing Political Threats by Law Enforcement in the US
Click to expand Image Phoenix Police Department vehicles block off a street in Phoenix, Arizona, May 30, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin Recent politically motivated threats and calls for...
View ArticleCambodia: Scrap Draft Cybercrime Law
Click to expand Image A man views Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook page on his mobile phone in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2016 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (San Francisco) – The Cambodian...
View ArticleWaiving Intellectual Property Rules Key to Beating Covid-19
With two companies, Pfizer and BioNTech, having announced promising early results for a Covid-19 vaccine they are developing, governments in the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom...
View ArticleEU: Bring Human Rights to the Top of Central Asia Agenda
Click to expand Image European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. © 2020 Yves Herman/Pool Photo via AP (Brussels) – The European Union (EU) should set...
View ArticleAwaiting Justice for Police Killings in DR Congo
Click to expand Image Congolese police taking part in the first Operation Likofi in Kinshasa, December 2, 2013. © 2013 Private At 3 a.m. on December 18, 2013, about 20 police officers stormed the home...
View ArticleIraq: No Justice for Enforced Disappearances
(Beirut) – Iraqi authorities should fulfill a commitment to locate victims of enforced disappearance and ensure that those responsible are held accountable, Human Rights Watch said today. Since taking...
View ArticleDraft EU Regulation on 'Terrorist Content' Online Threatens Rights
This week European Union negotiators will enter what is expected to be the final round of talks on a new regulation on preventing the dissemination of online content classified as “terrorist.” The...
View ArticleEgypt: Leading Rights Group Official Arrested
Click to expand Image Several European diplomats attend a meeting at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights' (EIPR) office in Cairo on November 3, 2020. © 2020 Egyptian Initiative for Personal...
View ArticleIran: No Justice for Bloody 2019 Crackdown
Click to expand Image Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the capital Tehran, on November 16, 2019. © AFP/Getty Images...
View ArticleUkraine: Armed Groups’ Arbitrary Pandemic Restrictions
Click to expand Image People listen to an armed man with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic as they wait before crossing the line of contact at a checkpoint, which was temporary closed due...
View ArticleTrump Administration Moves to Entrench Global Gag Rule
Click to expand Image A woman walks past a mural on a Family Health Options clinic in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters With attention turning toward what the...
View ArticleTrans People at Risk in Honduras
Click to expand Image People participate in the March against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on May 17, 2019. © 2019 Mirte Postema/Human Rights Watch William Alejandro...
View ArticleGuatemala: Congress Assaulting Judicial Independence
Click to expand Image Lawmakers vote in Congress, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on September 11, 2017. © REUTERS/Luis Echeverria (Washington, DC) – The Guatemalan Congress’s efforts to press criminal...
View ArticleBad News for the US on World Prematurity Day
Click to expand Image Farmworkers, considered essential workers under the current Covid-19 pandemic guidelines, work a strawberry field in Santa Paula, California, April 15, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticleMyanmar’s Military Still Using Children in Fighting
Click to expand Image Myanmar military officers salute at their national flag during a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of Independence Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. © 2020 AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo...
View ArticleHungary: Intensified Attack on LGBT People
Click to expand Image People march with a giant rainbow flag from the parliament building in Budapest during the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade on July 6, 2019. © © 2019...
View ArticleHaiti: End Sexual Abuse in Football
Click to expand Image Residents of the Centre Technique National in Croix-des-Bouquets play in a match on May 12, 2020. Earlier this year, survivors and family members accused Haitian Football...
View ArticleFilm Shows Why George Soros Believes in an Open Society
Click to expand Image SOROS © 2020 Vital Pictures, LLC. All of us are the product of our backgrounds. George Soros is no exception. “Soros,” a new documentary about him opening tonight, shows vividly...
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