Nicaragua’s Ultimate Sham Trial
Click to expand Image Reporters sit under a banner reading "Freedom for political prisoners" before a news conference of Nicaraguan exiles to denounce the electoral process in Nicaragua ahead of the...
View ArticleUK: 26th Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Click to expand Image © You Resemble Me (London) – Human Rights Watch proudly presents the 26th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival from March 17-25, in partnership with Barbican Cinema,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Scrap Draconian Cybersecurity Bill
Click to expand Image People wait outside an internet shop in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 16, 2021. © 2021 STR/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s military junta has revived a draconian...
View ArticleCambodia: Covid-19 Used to Justify Crackdown on Union
Click to expand Image NagaWorld Casino workers protest outside the National Assembly building after several union members were arrested, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 5, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Cindy...
View ArticleIndia’s Hijab Debate Fueled by Divisive Communal Politics
Click to expand Image Female Muslim students barred from entering their classrooms for wearing a hijab walk outside their college in Udupi, Karnataka, India, February 7, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo The...
View ArticleNigeria’s Kano State Needs Child Protection Law
Click to expand Image Women and girls arrive to make traditional Friday prayers at a mosque in Kano, northern Nigeria on February 15, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Cara Anna Last week, the Federation of Women...
View ArticleLGBT Rights Under Renewed Pressure in Hungary
Click to expand Image Dorottya Redai, an activist with Labrisz Lesbian Association and publisher of the book A Fairy Tale For Everyone, reads from it in Budapest, Hungary, on July 21, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleAustralia: End Indefinite, Arbitrary Immigration Detention
Click to expand Image A protester outside the Park Hotel calling for the release of refugees being detained inside the hotel in Melbourne, Australia on January 8, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Hamish Blair...
View ArticleEl Salvador Releases Woman Imprisoned after Miscarriage
Click to expand Image Women in San Salvador, El Salvador march in a protest for safe and legal abortions on the Global Day of Action for Abortion, September 28, 2021. © 2021 Camilo Freedman / SOPA...
View ArticleEgypt: Rights Defender’s Imprisoned Father At Risk
Click to expand Image Salah Soltan © Private 2021 (Beirut) - Egyptian authorities should urgently provide health care to Salah Soltan, the detained father of a prominent Egyptian rights defender...
View ArticleEU: Top Court Approves Linking EU Funds to Rule of Law
Click to expand Image European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Brussels) – The decision on February 16, 2022 by the...
View ArticleVietnam: Activists’ Movements Blocked
(Bangkok) – The Vietnamese government systematically restricts the rights to freedom of movement of political and human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The...
View ArticleTanzania Ends Ban of Four Newspapers
Click to expand Image People stop to read front pages at a newspaper stand on a street in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, March 18, 2021. © AP Photo Tanzania’s Minister for Information, Nape Nnauye, said in...
View ArticleKuwait Court Rules Anti-Transgender Law Unconstitutional
Click to expand Image General view of Kuwait's National Assembly during the inauguration of the 14th Legislative Term of the National Assembly in Kuwait, December 16, 2012. © 2012 AP Photo/Gustavo...
View ArticleSenior UN Official Pushes Accountability for Ethiopia Atrocities
Click to expand Image A woman waits to receive food at a distribution site operated by the Relief Society of Tigray in Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 8, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleIraq Detains More than 1,000 Children as ISIS Suspects
Iraqi authorities detained over 1,000 children, some as young as nine years old, last year on national security charges, primarily for suspected links with the Islamic State (ISIS), according to a new...
View ArticleNorth Koreans Face Repatriation from Russia
Click to expand Image The North Korean Embassy in Moscow, Russia, December 18, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin Choe Kum Chol, a 33-year-old North Korean military information technology officer,...
View ArticleFlorida Advances 'Don’t Say Gay' Bill
Click to expand Image Rainbow flags for sale are photographed on June 24, 2017. © 2017 Reuters On February 17, a Florida committee advanced a bill that would restrict discussions of sexual...
View ArticleJapan Beverage Giant to Withdraw from Myanmar
Click to expand Image A man walks near an advertisement for a Kirin brand beer in Tokyo, Japan, August 25, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Koji Sasahara Japanese beverage giant Kirin Holdings Company is pulling...
View ArticleChina: Censorship Mars Beijing Olympics
(New York) – Chinese government censorship seriously marred the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which close on February 20, 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. The International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
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