Myanmar: Coup Crushes Democratic Rule
Click to expand Image Medical workers stand in a “Red Ribbon Campaign” demonstration at a hospital in Mandalay, Myanmar, protesting against the military coup, February 3, 2021. © 2021 Kaung Zaw Hein...
View ArticleEU: Commitment to Rights Falters Under Stress
Click to expand Image Sara, 26, and Hassan, 24, both from Syria, sit on the ground in the forest in Lewosze, Poland, after crossing the border from Belarus, October 29, 2021. © 2021 REUTERS/Kacper...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Minorities, Activists Targeted
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan police enforce all-island travel restrictions amid Covid 19 pandemic in Sri Lanka, May 14, 2021. ©2021 AP Photo/ Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto (New York) – The Sri Lankan...
View ArticleMaldives: Extremist Attacks Go Unpunished
Click to expand Image Maldivian police secure area following a blast targeting former President Mohamed Nasheed, Malé, Maldives, May 6, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mohamed Sharuhaan (New York) – The...
View ArticleNigeria: Child Marriage Violates Girls’ Rights
Click to expand Image A woman protests against underage marriage, Lagos, Nigeria. © 2017 / AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File (Abuja) – Child marriage remains prevalent in Nigeria because the federal and...
View ArticleUK: Temporary Accommodation Violates Children’s Rights
(London) – Children in London are growing up in substandard and uninhabitable “temporary accommodation” as a result of persistent policy failures by central and local government, Human Rights Watch and...
View ArticlePhilippines: End Deadly ‘Red-Tagging’ of Activists
(Manila) – The Philippine government should end the “red-tagging” of activists as rebels or supporters of the communist insurgency, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a video about the...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Deprive Women of Livelihoods, Identity
Click to expand Image Burqa-clad women walk on a street in Ghazni City, in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, November 15, 2021. © 2021 HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Taliban rule has had...
View ArticleGreece: New Biometrics Policing Program Undermines Rights
Click to expand Image Police detain individuals assumed to be migrants in central Athens, on Sunday, August 5, 2012. Between August 4, 2012, and February 22, 2013, Greek police detained almost 85,000...
View ArticleIndia Should Stop Using Abusive Foreign Funding Law
Click to expand Image The People’s Watch’s building in Madurai, India. (Geneva) – The Indian government should immediately stop harassing the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns and its program...
View ArticleTaliban Use Harsh Tactics to Crush Afghan Women’s Rights Protest
Click to expand Image Women protesters demand justice and call for the Taliban to respect women’s rights in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 16, 2022. Photo provided by one of the protest organizers. The...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions for Sport: Protect Children
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 ArticleRetaliating against Rights Groups Means Retaliating against People in Need
Click to expand Image The team and supporters of the Belarusian human rights organization "Human Constanta." © 2022 Human Constanta Last year, Belarusian authorities redoubled their crackdown on civil...
View ArticleSyria: German Trial for Wartime Atrocities Opens
Click to expand Image The building entrance of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court. © 2022 Julian Zündorf (Berlin) – Judges in Frankfurt, Germany will begin hearing evidence on January 19, 2022 in a...
View ArticleInvestigating a Massacre, Iraq Should Address Root Causes
Click to expand Image People walk outside Iraqi Criminal Court in Baghdad's Karkh district, Iraq, May 5, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File On December 31, Iraqi security forces killed 20...
View ArticleNew Language Requirement Raises Concerns in Ukraine
Click to expand Image A man reads a newspaper at a metro station, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 12, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov A new legal provision on the use of the Ukrainian language, part...
View ArticleUS: Cervical Cancer Disproportionally Kills Black Women
(Atlanta) – The United States federal and many state and local governments are not doing enough to end cervical cancer deaths, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social...
View ArticleUN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
Click to expand Image Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand on guard at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © 2021 Piyas Biswas / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (New...
View ArticleMyanmar: TotalEnergies Endorses Targeted Sanctions
Click to expand Image Soldiers move in to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 7, 2021. © AP Photo, File (Paris) – The French company TotalEnergies has signaled...
View ArticlePakistan’s New Law Aims to Protect Women in Workplace
Click to expand Image Women's rights activists demonstrate to condemn violence against women in Lahore, Pakistan, July 24, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry Pakistan’s parliament has passed a bill...
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