Burkina Faso: Armed Islamists Kill, Rape Civilians
Click to expand Image A government soldier walks past a group of villagers displaced by fighting in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region, February 3, 2020. © 2020 Olympia de Maismont/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleStudent in Nigeria Murdered Over Blasphemy Allegation
Click to expand Image A burned-out security post where Deborah Samuel, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education, was murdered in Sokoto, Nigeria, on May 13, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Olu Akinrele...
View ArticleAs Sri Lanka’s Tamils Remember War Dead, Justice Remains Elusive
Click to expand Image Razor wire installed by the Sri Lankan Army along a beach in Mullaitivu district, where many civilians were killed at the end of the civil war in May 2009. © 2017 Creative Touch...
View ArticleNorth Korea Acknowledges Health Crisis amid Covid-19 Outbreak
Click to expand Image A first-ever government-released photograph showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wearing a mask, during a visit to a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 15, 2022. ©...
View ArticleUkraine: Executions, Torture During Russian Occupation
Click to expand Image Volodymyr Ivashchenko shows the basement where he sheltered in the initial days of the war, together with his wife, mother-in-law, daughter, and 3-year-old grandson, in Yahidne,...
View ArticleBurundi: Suspected Opponents Killed, Detained, Tortured
Click to expand Image Burundi's president Évariste Ndayishimiye at the European Union-Africa Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 17, 2022. © 2022 Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images...
View ArticleTajikistan: Tensions Escalating in Autonomous Region
Click to expand Image Summit of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Kremlin, May 16, 2022. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is on the far right. © 2022...
View ArticleOpposition Leader, Supporters Arrested in Chad
Chadian president, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, has dashed hopes for further reforms with the arrest of six members and supporters of Wakit Tamma, a coalition of Chadian opposition parties and civil...
View ArticleFIFA: Pay for Harm to Qatar’s Migrant Workers
(London) – Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in Qatar have not received financial compensation or any other adequate remedy for serious labor abuses suffered while building and servicing...
View ArticleUS/South Korea: Promote Rights in North Korea
Click to expand Image US President Joe Biden, left, and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, right. © 2021 AP Photo/Alex Brandon, and 2022 Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool Photo via AP (Seoul) – US President...
View ArticleQuad Leaders: Spotlight Rights, Democracy in Asia
Click to expand Image From top left, clockwise: US President Joe Biden. © 2022 AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. © 2021 Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP; Australian...
View ArticleMillions Dying Globally Because of Unabated Pollution
Click to expand Image Air pollution in Dhaka, Bangladesh on December 3, 2020. © 2020 Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via AP Today, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet revealed the terrifying extent...
View ArticleUS: Flawed Military Review of Civilian Casualties in Syria
Click to expand Image Black smoke billows from the last small piece of territory held by Islamic State forces as US-backed fighters attack the area with artillery and airstrikes in Baghouz, Syria,...
View ArticleGuatemala: Attorney General’s Reappointment Threatens Rights
Click to expand Image Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and Attorney General Consuelo Porras pose for photos after she is sworn in for another four-year term, at the National Palace in...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Boost Rights Protection in Constitution Reform
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev speaks during his televised address to the nation in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, January 7, 2022. © © 2022 Kazakhstan's Presidential Press...
View ArticleEU Needs to Hold Hungary to Account
Click to expand Image Protesters attend a rally against the Hungarian government's clampdown on civil society in Budapest, Hungary, May 21, 2017. © 2017 Reuters/Laszlo Balogh On Monday, EU ministers...
View ArticleIran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests
Click to expand Image Thousands of Iranian teachers took to the streets in 28 cities across the country, demanding better labor protections, February 2015. © 2015 Siavosh Hosseini, Sipa via AP Images...
View ArticleSomalia: US Redeployment Should Stress Civilian Protection
Click to expand Image Somali families, displaced after fleeing the Lower Shabelle region amid an uptick in US airstrikes, wait at an Internally Displaced Person camp near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 12,...
View ArticleUN: Rights Chief’s Credibility at Stake in China Visit
Click to expand Image UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet addresses a news conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, December 1, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Sophie Garcia (Geneva) – The...
View ArticleBerlin Bans Nakba Day Demonstrations
Click to expand Image German police forcibly detain long-time Palestinian activist Majed Abusalama during a Nakba Day demonstration in Berlin, Germany, May 15, 2022. He says was hospitalized due to...
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