Opposition Leader in Court in Central African Republic
Click to expand Image Crepin Mboli Goumba (right) with his defense team after he is provisionally released from the Central Office for the Repression of Banditry (OCRB) in Bangui, Central African...
View ArticleUS Truth and Healing Commission on Indigenous Boarding Schools is Long Overdue
Click to expand Image A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby at a public park in...
View ArticleArmed Groups Kidnap Hundreds Across Northern Nigeria
Click to expand Image Children play at the LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga two days after 287 students were kidnapped, Kuriga, Kaduna State, Nigeria, March 9, 2024. © 2024 Sunday Alamba/AP...
View ArticleReject Saudi Bid to Chair UN Women’s Rights Forum
Click to expand Image People walk past a Vision 2030 banner showing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Jeddah. © 2019 AP Photo/Amr Nabil United Nations member countries should abandon an...
View ArticleICC Reporting Key to Catalyze National Justice
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a court of last resort,...
View ArticleIsraeli Assurances to Use US Arms Legally Are Not Credible
Click to expand Image Airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus fall over the Gaza city port, October 11, 2023. © 2023 Mohammed Adeb/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC, March 19, 2024) – The...
View ArticleTwo Indigenous Boys in Australia Die Following Youth Detention
Click to expand Image Barbed wire fence in Australia, February 10, 2023. © 2023 SCM Jeans/Getty Images Last week, the Australian state of Queensland released a report on the deaths of two boys who...
View ArticleSri Lankan Authorities Detain Hindu Worshippers
Click to expand Image A Hindu worshipper celebrating the festival of Shivaratri in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on March 8, 2024. © 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP Photo Eight Tamil...
View ArticleUS: Supreme Court Opens Door to Chaos, Abuse in Texas
Click to expand Image People hold a banner during a protest against Operation Lone Star after members of the Texas National Guard shot and wounded a 22-year-old near the Bridge of the Americas in El...
View ArticleJapan Lawmakers Seek Probe of Carmaker Links to Xinjiang Abuses
Click to expand Image A large screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping near a carpark in Kashgar, in western China's Xinjiang region, December 3, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Ng Han Guan A group of Japanese...
View ArticleHong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights
Click to expand Image A screen displays the vote count after the third reading of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, March 19, 2024. © 2024 AP...
View ArticleUN Rights Council: Renew Iran Mandates
Click to expand Image Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, June 13, 2022. © 2022 Keystone/Valentin Flauraud (Geneva) – The United...
View ArticleProminent Congolese Journalist Convicted on Baseless Charges
Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd This week, a court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, convicted the prominent...
View ArticleSeychelles: Rights Concerns in High-Profile Case
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of Justice, in the island of Mahe, Seychelles, August 16, 2023. ©Eduardo Soteras for The Washington Post via Getty Images. (Johannesburg) – The authorities in...
View ArticleCanada: All 10 Provinces To End Immigration Detention in Jails
Click to expand Image © 2024 Human Rights Watch (Ottawa) – All 10 of Canada's provinces have now committed to ending their immigration detention agreements and arrangements with the Canada Border...
View ArticleCameroon: Government Bans Opposition Coalitions
Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private (Nairobi) – A declaration by Cameroon’s territorial administration...
View ArticleUgandan Appeals Court Shutters LGBT Rights Group
Click to expand Image Pepe Onziema (L), Frank Mugisha (C), from SMUG and UNAIDS representative Tseday Alemseged before the hearing of the petition challenging the Anti Homosexuality Act,...
View ArticleDrone Attack Collapses Odesa Residential Building
Click to expand Image An apartment building heavily damaged during a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine March 2, 2024. © 2024 Stringer/Reuters On March 2, Andriy Sidak raced to his sister’s...
View ArticleNew Bill Would Protect Child Farmworkers in the US
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. July 2013. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A bill introduced today in the US Senate would strengthen protections for...
View ArticleArgentina: Firearms Resolution Opens Door to Abuse
Click to expand Image Security Minister Patricia Bullrich shakes hands with security forces deployed to Rosario, Argentina, on Monday, March 11, 2024. The Argentine government sent federal security...
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