Australia: Extreme Heat Threatens Lives
Click to expand Image Denham Court Housing Estate in Western Sydney. Housing estates with homes crammed close together capture and store heat that radiates from one neighbor to the next. January 28,...
View ArticleQatar’s Migrant Workers Sidelined Ahead of World Cup
Click to expand Image T-shirt campaign by the German team at the World Cup qualification match between Germany and Iceland on March 25, 2021 in Duisburg, Germany. © 2021 Marvin Ibo...
View ArticleBangladesh: Officials Threaten Rohingya for Setting Up Schools
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugee students demonstrate against being expelled from Bangladeshi secondary schools in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 6, 2019. © 2019 Private (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleIn Tunisia, State Television the Latest Battleground
Click to expand Image Members of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNTJ) protest in front of the state television channel headquarters, March 11, 2022. © 2022 SNTJ Tunisian President...
View ArticleDR Congo: Martial Law Brings Crackdown in East
Jean Paul Ngahangondi, a provincial deputy for North Kivu, has been detained since February 6, 2022, for "contempt" of the head of state and the army: "After my arrest, I was taken to the ANR...
View ArticleUganda: Hundreds ‘Disappeared,’ Tortured
Click to expand Image Ugandan soldiers patrol near the house of Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, in Magere, Uganda, two days after Uganda's...
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges Against ‘Citizen Reporter’
Click to expand Image Le Van Dung. © 2019 Le Van Dung (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately drop the politically motivated charges against the social commentator Le Van Dung and...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Threaten Revenge Killings
Click to expand Image A Taliban fighter raises a flag in the ruins of Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan, November 30, 2021. ©2021/Alfred Yaghobzadeh/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) (New York)...
View ArticleUS Should End Marijuana Prohibition
Click to expand Image Supporters hold flags near the Capitol in Washington, DC, during a rally in favor of marijuana legalization on April 24, 2017. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon In the last Congress, the...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Reopening Girls’ Schools Needs Watching
Click to expand Image Afghan girls exit classrooms at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, one of the few provinces where the Taliban permitted girls' secondary schools to reopen, November 25, 2021....
View ArticleTanzania: Expedite Protections for Girls’ Education
Click to expand Image The flag of the United Republic of Tanzania. © 2010 TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Tanzania’s pledge to adopt guidelines to guarantee that schools ensure...
View ArticleIraq: Impunity for Violence Against LGBT People
Click to expand Image © 2022 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (Baghdad) – Armed groups in Iraq abduct, rape, torture, and kill lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, with impunity,...
View ArticleRussia: Kremlin Targets Critics Amid Ukraine War
Click to expand Image Alexei Navalny, a jailed opposition leader, during a court session in Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, March 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin) – The...
View ArticleEnglish Premier League: Urgently Adopt Human Rights Policy
Click to expand Image Newcastle United players warm up before the Premier League match at the Amex Stadium, Brighton, United Kingdom on July 20, 2020. © 2020 AP Images (London) – The English Premier...
View ArticleTaliban Close Girls’ Secondary Schools in Afghanistan, Again
Click to expand Image Women, teachers and students demonstrate inside a private school to demand their rights and equal education for women and girls, during a gathering for National Teachers Day, in...
View ArticleUN Body Condemns Sri Lanka’s Criminalization of Same-Sex Acts
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan activists march in Colombo on World AIDS day, December 1, 2012. © 2012 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena In a major judgment issued this week, a United Nations treaty body...
View ArticleHaitians Being Returned to a Country in Chaos
Click to expand Image A Haitian who was returned to Haiti from the United States in December 2021 wrote on a sweatshirt the countries he had crossed to get to the US, starting in the Dominican...
View ArticleFrance: Afghan Evacuees Need Mental Health Support
(New York) – Many Afghans evacuated to France as the Taliban took over their country more than six months ago are experiencing trauma and psychological distress, Human Rights Watch said today. While...
View ArticleEthiopia: Airstrike on Camp for Displaced Likely War Crime
Click to expand Image Damage to school building after Ethiopian government airstrike hit the Dedebit Elementary School compound in Tigray on January 7, 2022. © 2022 Private (Nairobi, March 24,...
View ArticleSouth African Court Urges Action on Deadly Air Pollution
Click to expand Image The Kendal and Duvah coal plant power station on the outskirts of Witbank, Mpumalanga province, South Africa, on September 28, 2016. © 2016 MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP via Getty Images...
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