No End to Chechnya’s Violent Anti-Gay Campaign
Click to expand Image Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain on June 2, 2017. © 2017 Neil Hall/REUTERS The Russian LGBT Network has reported...
View ArticleMalaysia: New Prime Minister Needs New Rights Agenda
Click to expand Image A protester holds a placard during a demonstration demanding that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin resign for mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July...
View ArticleUS Court Ruling Furthers South Dakota Tribe’s Right to Health
Click to expand Image The US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a field hearing in Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 17, 2016, to discuss proposed legislation aimed at fixing shortcomings at the...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Yemeni Workers at Risk of Mass Forced Returns
Click to expand Image An aid worker gives a food ration to a woman in Sanaa, Yemen, July 19, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (Beirut) – Saudi authorities have since July 2021 began to terminate...
View ArticleJustice for Murder of Chechen Rights Defender Remains Elusive
Click to expand Image Natalia Estemoriva in Chechnya, 2007. © 2017 Tanya Lokshina for Human Rights Watch Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on the case of Natalia Estemirova, star...
View ArticleUS Congress: Sufficiently Fund Public Housing
Click to expand Image First Houses in Manhattan, one of the earliest public housing developments in the United States, April 2, 2009 © 2009 Americasroof (Washington, DC) – The United States Congress...
View ArticleProtest Demands End to Harmful Surgeries on Intersex Children
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather for an #EndIntersexSurgery protest outside Weill-Cornell hospital in New York City in August 2021. © 2021 Matias Alvial Protesters picketed Weill-Cornell, a...
View ArticleAustralia: Prisoners Denied Vaccine Access
Click to expand Image The entry sign to Parklea Correctional Centre in Sydney, Australia, July 30, 2020. 2020 Matt Blyth/Getty Images (Sydney) – The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) should...
View ArticleSale of a Seized Beach House Funds Covid-19 Vaccine Drive in Equatorial Guinea
Click to expand Image Proceeds from the Malibu home seized from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president of Equatorial Guinea, are now funding the country's Covid-19 vaccine drive. © 2021 Google...
View ArticleUN Security Council: Renew Afghanistan Mission
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 22, 2021. © 2021 Rahmat Gul/AP Images (New York) - The United...
View ArticleEU’s Cold-Hearted Response to Afghans at Risk
Click to expand Image Polish soldiers build a fence with concertina wire at the border with Belarus in Krynki, Poland, on August 27, 2021. © 2021 Dominika Zarzycka/Sipa USA/AP Images Instead of...
View ArticleNorth Korea Controls Youth Through ‘Hard Labor’
Click to expand Image Farmers plant rice in Rangnang district in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 25, 2021. © 2021 Jon Chol Jin/AP North Korea’s economy has taken a hit as the country’s borders remain...
View ArticleEl Salvador: New Laws Threaten Judicial Independence
Click to expand Image El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers his annual address to the nation before Congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 1. © 2021 AP Photo/Salvador Melendez...
View ArticleAfghans Stuck at Poland’s Border Need Protection
Click to expand Image Polish security forces surround migrants at the border with Belarus in Usnarz Gorny, Poland on September 1, 2021. © 2021 Czarek Sokolowski/AP Images While Poland’s government...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Humanitarian Crisis Needs Urgent Response
Click to expand Image Afghans wait for hours to try to withdraw money from a bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 30, 2021. © 2021 Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi/AP Photo (New York) – Afghanistan’s foreign...
View ArticleNew Measures in Brazil Not Enough to Solve Amazon Crisis
Click to expand Image Fires near Novo Progresso, Brazil on August 23, 2020, burned land deforested by cattle farmers. © 2020 Andre Penner/AP Images As fires rage in the Brazilian Amazon, environment...
View ArticleSome Accountability for Attack on Burkina Faso School
Click to expand Image A student responds to a teacher’s question in an overcrowded classroom at a public primary school in Kaya, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso. In January 2020, the school had 748...
View ArticleEgypt: ‘Shootouts’ Disguise Apparent Extrajudicial Executions
(Beirut) – Egypt’s Interior Ministry police and National Security Agency officers have in recent years apparently killed dozens of alleged “terrorists” across the country in unlawful extrajudicial...
View ArticleExplosive Weapons Attacks on Afghanistan Schools Increase
Click to expand Image The mother of a schoolgirl who was among those killed in the brutal May 8, 2021 bombing of the Sayed ul-Shuhada girls' school stands inside a classroom with bouquets of flowers...
View ArticleThe Revolving Door of Persecution in Crimea
Click to expand Image Nariman Dzhelyal in Crimea in 2019. © 2019 Anton Naumliuk, Grati In today’s Crimea, to be a member of the Crimean Tatar community is to be a target for the authorities.In the...
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