India: Protect Farmers’ Right to Peaceful Protest
Click to expand Image Protesting farmers flee exploding tear gas shells used by the police near the border between Punjab and Haryana states, about 200 kilometers from New Delhi, India, February 21,...
View ArticleEU, Denmark Failing Imprisoned Danish-Bahraini Activist and His Daughter
Click to expand Image Bahraini anti-government protesters raise signs with images of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Friday, April 6, 2012, in Jidhafs, Bahrain. © 2012 AP Photo/Hasan...
View ArticleChad: Prominent Opposition Leader Killed
Click to expand Image Political opposition leader Yaya Dillo gives a press conference on April 30, 2021, in N’Djamena, Chad. Dillo was killed on February 28, 2024, by security forces at his party’s...
View ArticleThousands Flee New Violence in Northern Mozambique
Click to expand Image Displaced people from the province of Cabo Delgado gather to received humanitarian aid from the World Food Program in Namapa, Mozambique, February 27, 2024. © 2024 Alfredo...
View ArticleAustralia: Youth Thought Dead May Be Held in Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image Yusuf Zahab in a photo he sent to Human Rights Watch from a besieged prison in northeast Syria in January 2022. © 2022 Private (Sydney, March 2, 2024) – An Australian youth...
View ArticleIraq: Unregistered Marriages Harm Women and Children
Click to expand Image A wedding dress store in Duhok, Iraq, October 12, 2015. © 2015 Felix Kleymann/laif/Redux Religious leaders in Iraq conduct thousands of marriages each year, including child...
View ArticleYemen: Warring Parties Restrict Women’s Movement
Click to expand Image Women walk at the “Change Square” outside Sanaa University’s gate, Sanaa, Yemen. © 2021 Reuters / Khaled Abdullah The authorities across Yemen are increasingly restricting...
View ArticleTürkiye: Big Tech Should Protect Online Expression, Resist Censorship
Click to expand Image People check their phones at a market in central Istanbul, Türkiye, July 18, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti (Istanbul) – Social media companies should resist intensifying...
View ArticleProposed EU Forced Labor Regulation Should Focus on Workers
Click to expand Image Migrant workers prepare to unload their catch at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand on January 22, 2018. © 2018 Reuters / Athit Perawongmetha European Union...
View ArticleUS States Should Ensure Indigenous Voting Rights
Click to expand Image Moapa-Paiute Community Center at the Moapa River Indian Reservation in Moapa, Nevada, June 14, 2022. © 2022 Wade Vandervort/Las Vegas Sun via AP Photo Nearly 100 years ago in...
View ArticleMali: Security Force Whistleblower Arrested
Click to expand Image Soldiers of the Malian armed forces at the ceremony of the 60th anniversary of Mali's independence in Bamako, September 22, 2020. © 2020 MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Deepening Crackdown on Dissent
Click to expand Image Men in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 3, 2021. © 2021 Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images In February, plainclothes security officers detained Batte Urgessa, a...
View ArticleEgypt: New Laws Entrench Military Power Over Civilians
Click to expand Image Egyptian army soldiers guard the entrance of tunnels and the Suez Canal area, in Ismailia, Egypt, November 17, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (Beirut) – In early...
View ArticleGhana: President Should Veto Anti-LGBT Bill
Click to expand Image Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo delivers his annual state of the nation address to the parliament in Accra, Ghana, March 30, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Francis Kokorok (Nairobi) –...
View ArticleFrance Protects Abortion as a 'Guaranteed Freedom' in Constitution
Click to expand Image A message reading "My body my choice" is projected onto the Eiffel Tower on March 4, 2024. © DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images Yesterday at a special congress in Versailles,...
View ArticleSenegal: Amnesty Bill Opens Door to Impunity
Click to expand Image Detained demonstrators on a police pick up during a protest against the postponement of the February 25, 2024 presidential election, in Dakar, Senegal, on February 9, 2024. ©...
View ArticleVietnam: New Wave of Arrests of Critics
Click to expand Image Hoang Viet Khanh (left), Nguyen Chi Tuyen (middle) carries a No-U banner (No to China’s Nine Dash Line) at Ky Quan San Peak, Vietnam, and Nguyen Vu Binh (right). © Private...
View ArticleNepal: Seize Chance to Ensure Justice for Conflict Atrocities
Click to expand Image NepalI war victim Pabitra Sunakhari shows a photograph of her lost son, Surkhet District, February 2, 2017. © 2017 PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images The Nepali government’s...
View ArticleMalaysia: Abusive Detention of Migrants, Refugees
Click to expand Image Undocumented migrants walk in line while being detained during an immigration raid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 1, 2022. © 2022 Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters The Malaysian...
View ArticleIndonesia Officially Adopts Indonesian Term for ‘Jesus Christ’
Click to expand Image A Christian congregation, which has been trying to secure a building permit since 2018, holds a service in their temporary building in Bogor, near Jakarta. The church uses the...
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