Biden Needs to do More Than Raise Rights Issues at Xi Summit
Click to expand Image This combination image shows US President Joe Biden in Washington on November 6, 2021, and China's President Xi Jinping in Brasília, Brazil on November 13, 2019. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleCambodia: Political Prisoner Releases Just a Start
Click to expand Image Mother Nature activist Thun Ratha is reunited with his wife and child after being released from prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 12, 2021. © 2021 LICADHO (Bangkok) – The...
View ArticleBangladesh: Protests Erupt Over Rape Verdict
Click to expand Image Students and activists take part in a torch procession demanding for the government to take action against murder and rape in Bangladesh. © Photo by Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury /...
View ArticleSingapore Death Row Inmate Saved by Covid-19 – For Now
Click to expand Image Activists attend a candlelight vigil against the impending execution of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam outside the Singaporean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 8, 2021. ©...
View ArticleNew Olympic Framework Backs Inclusion
Click to expand Image Annet Negesa, a Ugandan runner, holds a photo of herself racing in the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Negesa was targeted under sex testing regulations and...
View ArticleJustin Bieber and Others Should Speak Out at Saudi Arabia’s Grand Prix
Click to expand Image Justin Bieber performs during the Triller Fight Club Night at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, April 17, 2021. © 2021 Photo by Robb Cohen/Invision/AP In three weeks,...
View ArticleGreece: Alleged ‘Fake News’ Made a Crime
(Athens) – A criminal code provision that Greece’s parliament adopted on November 11, 2021, makes it a criminal offense to spread “fake news,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Greek government should...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Extend Time for Massive Review of Laws
Click to expand Image Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov attends a military parade to celebrate Independence Day on Ala-Too Square in the center of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. August 31, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleEvicted from their Office, Al Jazeera Works from a Front Yard in Tunisia
Click to expand Image Al Jazeera correspondent Lotfi Hajji reporting from Tunis after Tunisian authorities evicted the pan-Arab television network from its offices, November 5, 2021. © 2021 Eric...
View ArticleEgypt: Terrorism Laws Abused in Businessmen’s Arrests
(Beirut) – Two Egyptian businessmen have been detained for months, reportedly after they refused to surrender their shares in their company to a state-owned business, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleUnited States: Transgender People at Risk of Violence
Click to expand Image Portraits at the Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil in Washington Square in New York, NY on November 20, 2020. © 2020 Lev Radin / Sipa USA via AP Images (New York) –...
View ArticleOne Year Later, No Justice for Victims of Uganda’s Lethal Clampdown
Click to expand Image Ugandan security forces patrol on a street in Kampala, Uganda, November 19, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo Today marks a year since Ugandan security forces brutally clamped down on people...
View ArticleActivist Missing in Turkmenistan
Click to expand Image Azat Isakov, undated. © Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights “The police are here. If they find me, they’ll take me in. I’ve gone into hiding.” These are the last words Turkmen...
View ArticleChinese Tennis Star’s Disappearance Is Warning for Olympics
Click to expand Image Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai during the second round of WTA Guangzhou Open 2019 in Guangzhou city, China, September 18, 2019. © 2019 Imaginechina via AP Images Three-time...
View ArticleNigeria: Officials Indicted in Abuses of Protesters
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, on October 15, 2020. © 2020 Sunday Alamba/AP Photo (Abuja) – A judicial panel has found that army and police...
View ArticleCameroon: Lethal Force Against Protesters
Click to expand Image Screenshot from a video of a crowd protesting the death of a schoolgirl caused by a police officer in front the governor’s office in Bamenda, North-West region, on November 12,...
View ArticleEU: Tackle Central Asia Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the five Central Asian countries at the 15th EU-Central Asia...
View ArticleTime Running Out for South Korea to End Age Discrimination
Click to expand Image Kim Ok-Soon, 90, sits in her one-room shack in the village of Guryong outside Gangnam in Seoul, South Korea, in January 2016. © 2016 ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images The window is...
View ArticleMyanmar: Investors Should Act to Halt Funds to Junta
(New York) – Payments by energy and extractive companies to entities under the control of the Myanmar military are providing key funds to sustain the junta and pose serious legal, financial, and...
View ArticleIntersex Person Victim of Horrific Attack in Cameroon
A violent mob sexually assaulted, beat, threatened, and humiliated a 27-year-old intersex person on November 15, in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital. The perpetrators filmed the attack, which lasted for...
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