India: Kashmiri Activist Held Under Abusive Law
Click to expand Image Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights activist, left, in the office of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Srinagar, India, August 25, 2020. © AP Photo/Dar...
View ArticleEU Waste Shipment Proposal Takes Steps to Address Plastic Crisis
Click to expand Image Plastic waste among other items at an illegal garbage dump near Alibeykoy Dam on the outskirts of Istanbul, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mucahit Yapici Last week, the...
View ArticleTragedy in English Channel Should Be Turning Point in Border Standoff
Click to expand Image A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat headed in the direction of Dover, Kent, United Kingdom, August 10, 2020. © 2020 Gareth Fuller/Press...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Detain War Crimes Suspect Now
Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba Ali (R) with Ali Darassa (C) surrounded by other UPC leaders, during a meeting at their headquarters in Alindao, October 2017. © 2017 Alexis Huguet (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleRadicals Target Roma People in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Members of the C14 far right group, some of them wearing balaclavas, march toward an Russian orthodox church in Kiev, Ukraine. (File photo, April 20, 2018) © AP Photo/Felipe Dana...
View ArticleCanada Flooding Highlights Need for Inclusive Climate Action
Click to expand Image A woman and children who were stranded by high water due to flooding are rescued by a volunteer operating a boat in Abbotsford, British Columbia, November 16, 2021. © 2021 Darryl...
View ArticleTanzania: No Justice for Zanzibar Election Violence
Click to expand Image A woman walks past a wall with posters of presidential candidates in Zanzibar’s town on October 24, 2020. © 2020 Patrick Meinhardt / AFP via Getty Images (November 30, 2021) –...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Kill, ‘Disappear’ Ex-Officials
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File (New York) – Taliban forces in Afghanistan have summarily executed or forcibly...
View ArticleGuatemalan Journalists Protest Attacks on Media
Click to expand Image Journalists protest to demand an investigation into the killing of two journalists and increased security for the profession in front of the Interior Ministry building in...
View ArticleA Month of Fires in Thantlang, Myanmar
Since October 29, numerous fires have severely damaged Thantlang, a remote town in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin State. The evidence from space is undeniable: residential homes, places of worship,...
View ArticleKiller Robots: Negotiate New Law to Protect Humanity
Click to expand Image At the United Nations in Geneva the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots called on governments to not allow the development of weapons systems that would select and attack targets...
View ArticleOlympics: Protect Peng Shuai
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 (Nyon,...
View ArticleSahel: Top UN Rights Official Visits Burkina Faso, Niger
Click to expand Image © 2021 John Emerson/Human Rights Watch (Bamako) – Governments in the Sahel should adopt measures to better protect civilians, ensure that counterterrorism operations respect...
View ArticleCongo Investigation a Chance to Fight Corruption
Click to expand Image Former President Joseph Kabila speaks during the state of the nation address to the National Assembly in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, file, July 19, 2018. © 2018 AP...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: F1 Events Risk Whitewashing Abuses
(Beirut) – The Saudi government is using the inaugural Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and associated concerts and events between December 3 and 5, 2021, to deflect attention from its pervasive...
View ArticleMyanmar: Protesters Targeted in March Massacre
(Bangkok) – Myanmar security forces deliberately encircled and used lethal force during the March 14, 2021, anti-junta protests in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar township, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleThe Gambia: Truth Commission Calls for Prosecuting Ex-Officials
(Banjul) - The Gambian Truth Commission’s call for the prosecution of former officials who committed the worst human rights abuses during the 1994-2017 rule of former president Yahya Jammeh should be...
View ArticleCivil Society Groups Seek Urgent UN Action on Yemen
Click to expand Image UN member countries address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, September 25, 2021. © 2021 Kena Betancur/Pool Photo via...
View ArticleFrance Should Stop Selling Arms to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
This week, French President Emmanuel Macron will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with a large delegation of French ministers and major business executives. In the UAE, he...
View ArticleIOC Doubles Down on Losing China Strategy
Click to expand Image International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, talks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, January 31,...
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