Niger Junta’s Release of Detainees Falls Short
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. © 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo This week, Niger’s military junta released about 50 people...
View ArticleEU Should Defend the ICC
(Brussels) – The European Union should defend the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid serious attacks on its mandate and mission, 58 nongovernmental groups said today. These attacks could undermine...
View ArticleThe Lonely Death of a Rwandan General
Click to expand Image Brigadier General Frank Rusagara arrives at the court to appeal their 2016 conviction on charges including tarnishing the government’s image and inciting insurrection, in Kigali,...
View ArticleUS Health Funding Freeze Harms Low-Income Households
Click to expand Image Protestors gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court as oral arguments are delivered in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in Washington D.C., April 2, 2025. ©...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Dozens Freed But Arrests Continue
Click to expand Image Mohammed al-Qahtani (R), Muhammad al-Ghamdi (C-R), Asaad al-Ghamdi (C-L), and Salma al-Shehab. © Private (Beirut) – Saudi authorities have released dozens of people serving long...
View ArticleChina: Free Imprisoned Taiwan Publisher
Click to expand Image The Taipei International Book Exhibition at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taiwan, January 31, 2023. © 2023 Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo (Taipei) – The Chinese authorities should...
View ArticleRomania: Dangerous Rollback of Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image A woman holds a banner that reads "Abortion is an essential public health service" at a rally on International Women's Day, in Bucharest, Romania, March 8, 2023. © 2023 AP...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Belarus
SummaryHuman Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a...
View ArticleMozambique’s Parliament Approves Inclusive Dialogue Law
Click to expand Image New members of the Mozambique parliament are sworn in at the National Assembly in Maputo, January 13, 2025. © 2025 Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images Last week, Mozambique’s...
View Article‘Disappeared’ Burkina Faso Journalists Feared Unlawfully Conscripted
Click to expand Image Guezouma Sanogo (L) and Boukari Ouoba. © Private A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military uniforms....
View ArticleSyria: Landmines, Explosive Remnants Harming Civilians
Click to expand Image Nidal Ahmad stands near his olive farm in Aleppo, Syria on March 4, 2025. Its location near a former Syrian Army military camp has prevented him from harvesting crops for years....
View ArticleThailand: US Scholar Detained on Royal Insult Charge
Click to expand Image Paul Chambers, Thailand, April 8, 2025. © 2025 Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should immediately release and drop the groundless charges against Paul...
View ArticleIran: Imminent Threat to Amputate Prisoners' Fingers
(Beirut) – Iranian authorities are preparing to carry out finger amputation sentences, as early as April 11, 2025, against three men imprisoned for theft following grossly unfair trials, Human Rights...
View ArticleChina/Vietnam: Suspicious Death of Tibetan High Lama
Click to expand Image Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, date unknown. © 2025 Tibet.net (Taipei) – The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Incendiary Bombs Kill, Burn Civilians
Click to expand Image Remnants of a burnt tukul (homes) in Mathiang, South Sudan, following an attack with an incendiary weapon on March 16, 2025. Many tukuls and other civilian objects were burnt in...
View ArticleNew Data Exposes Global Healthcare Funding Inequalities
Click to expand Image A client waits to be seen by a doctor during an HIV clinic day at TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, February 17, 2025. © 2025 Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images New data...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration’s Assaults on Black History
This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant...
View ArticleInstead of Addressing Child Abuse Prevention, Trump Attacks Trans Youth
Click to expand Image People attend a rally in Union Square supporting transgender youth, New York City, US, February 8, 2025. © 2025 Spencer Platt/Getty Images In his proclamation for National Child...
View ArticleUS/El Salvador: Venezuelan Deportees Forcibly Disappeared
Relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador attend a vigil in front of the El Salvadoran embassy in Caracas on April 2, 2025. © JUAN BARRETO/AFP...
View ArticleCivilians Around Sudan’s El Fasher Face New Attacks
Click to expand Image Displaced people who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur, Sudan, February 14, 2025. © 2025 AFP via Getty Images Global leaders need to respond to...
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