Surge in Attacks on Aid Workers in South Sudan
Click to expand Image People are seen at a hospital run by Medicines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Old Fangak in Jonglei state, South Sudan, December 28, 2021. © © 2021 AP Photo/Sam...
View ArticleHungary: Smear Campaign Targets Critical Voices
Click to expand Image Thousands of people take part in a rally against the Hungarian government's distorting media policies and campaign against civic groups, in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 21,...
View ArticleA Sick Baby Clings to Life in a Ukraine Basement
Click to expand Image Women and their children sit in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. The photo...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Alleged Child Offender Again Sentenced to Death
Click to expand Image Abdullah al-Huwaiti, now 20, at 14 years old. © Private (Beirut) – A Saudi man who was 14 at the time of his alleged crime and whose previous death penalty conviction was...
View ArticleRussia Instructs Teachers to Spread Disinformation About Ukraine
Click to expand Image Students attend a physics lesson at a secondary school in Yekaterinburg, Russia, February 4, 2022. © 2022 Donat Sorokin\TASS via Getty Images This week, Russia’s Education...
View ArticleTurning Covid’s Economic Crisis into Opportunity
Click to expand Image A man picks up food for his family at the Los Angeles Unified School District's Liechty Middle School in Los Angeles, California, July 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes...
View ArticleFrench Election Guide: Vote for Human Rights
Click to expand Image Ballot envelope, initials Republique Francaise, with a ballot box, March 5, Gace, France. © Sipa via AP Images (Paris, March 7, 2022) - France's 2022 presidential election is...
View ArticleUnder Shelling in Kharkiv
Click to expand Image A view of the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © March 1, 2022 AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy © “We stopped counting days and nights. It’s...
View ArticleRussia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests
Click to expand Image A flag flies on a Russian State Duma building in Moscow, Russia. February 2022. © 2022 Alexey Maishev/Sputnik via AP (Berlin) – Russia has enacted two laws, adopted and brought...
View ArticleHong Kong: Covid-19 Threatens Detained Democracy Leaders
Click to expand Image Activist Koo Sze-yiu speaks to the media after arriving at a court in Hong Kong, September 30, 2020. © AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File (Hong Kong) – Hong Kong authorities should...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Threatening Provincial Media
Click to expand Image A TV presenter from southern Afghanistan hides her identity for security concerns as she gives an interview to The Associated Press in Kabul, February 3, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticlePutting a Spotlight on Nicaragua’s Brutal Repression
Click to expand Image Riot police stand guard outside the house of Cristiana Chamorro, former director of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation and opposition presidential candidate, in Managua...
View ArticleHonoring Women’s Rights Activists on International Women’s Day
Click to expand Image A woman holds a sign that reads "Sex education to decide, contraceptives to avoid abortion," as she participates in the Global Day of Action for access to legal, safe and free...
View ArticleUkraine: Mariupol Residents Trapped by Russian Assault
Click to expand Image Smoke rises after shelling by Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 4, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka Civilians in Ukraine’s southeastern coastal city of Mariupol...
View ArticleLibya: After Prison Escape, Derna Residents Rounded Up
Click to expand Image A view of destroyed buildings and cars after forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar took control of the area, in Derna, Libya, June 13, 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetor (Beirut)...
View ArticleAfter 2 Years of Covid, We’re Still Failing Older People
Click to expand Image Victor Tripiana, 86, reaches out to touch the hand of his daughter-in-law, Silvia Fernandez Sotto, separated by a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of Covid-19, at the...
View ArticleHungarians Helping Ukraine’s Refugees No Excuse for Limited Government Action
Click to expand Image Humanitarian aid distributed by volunteers, Tiszabecs, Hungary, March 2, 2022. © 2022 Lydia Gall / Human Rights Watch At the Hungary-Ukraine border last week and at one of...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Assault Kills Fleeing Civilians
Click to expand Image Ukrainian soldiers help a woman in the town of Irpin, Ukraine on March 6. © 2022 AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak For several hours on March 6, 2022, Russian forces bombarded an...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Warring Parties Should End Attacks on Women, Girls
Click to expand Image A Tigrayan refugee survivor of rape who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, on March 20, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleStanding with Afghan Women and Girls on International Women’s Day
Click to expand Image A Taliban fighter talks with a woman at the government passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 17, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz “While it feels as though the...
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