Brazil: Join Regional Treaty on Environment, Defenders
Click to expand Image Environmental defenders. © Win Edson for Human Rights Watch (São Paulo) – The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should rally legislators to approve...
View ArticleYemen: Houthis Sentence Men to Death, Flogging
Click to expand Image Illustration of string sealing person’s lips. © 2020 Malte Mueller / Getty Images (Beirut) – A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an...
View ArticleTürkiye: Stonewalling on Charges for Officials in Earthquake Deaths
Play Video The absence of criminal proceedings against municipal officials in deaths stemming from the February 6, 2023 earthquakes, is deeply troubling and unacceptable. Public officials for years...
View ArticleThailand: Promptly Pass Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Click to expand Image Women kiss while holding a poster to support marriage equality, during a Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, June 4, 2023. ©2023 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File (Bangkok) – The Thai...
View ArticleSyrians Face Dire Conditions in Turkish-Occupied ‘Safe Zone’
Click to expand Image The Tel Abyad border crossing in northern Raqqa, Syria, pictured on October 6, 2022. © 2022 Bakr Alkasm/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are deporting or...
View ArticleHaiti: Six Urgent Steps to Overcome Crisis
Click to expand Image Haitians forced to flee their homes amid spiraling criminal violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 9, 2024. © 2024 Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images (Washington, DC,...
View ArticleMichigan: Parental Consent Law for Abortion Harms Young People
Click to expand Image © 2024 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch A Michigan law that requires a young person to obtain parental consent to have an abortion threatens the health and safety of youth...
View ArticleMali: Army, Wagner Group Atrocities Against Civilians
Click to expand Image Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint press conference following talks in Moscow, February 28, 2024. ©...
View ArticleIndonesian Army Apologizes After Torture Video Goes Viral
The Indonesian military apologized to “all Papuan people” and detained 13 soldiers from an elite battalion in West Java who had tortured a Papuan man in Gome, Central Papua. Click to expand Image A...
View ArticleEswatini Authorities Target Activist’s Widow
Click to expand Image A vigil decrying the assassination of Eswatini Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko in Nakuru Town, Kenya, January 30, 2023. © 2023 James Wakibia/SOPA Images via AP Photo On March...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Football Fans Imprisoned for Chant
Click to expand Image Inter Milan's players lift the trophy to celebrate winning the Italian SuperCup football match at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on January 18, 2023. © 2023 Fayes...
View ArticleSomalia: Constitutional Proposals Put Children at Risk
Click to expand Image Somali members of Parliament vote on a resolution on the procedural rules for constitutional amendments, Mogadishu, Somalia, January 24, 2024. © 2024 REUTERS/Feisal Omar...
View ArticleUN Report on Israeli Killing of Journalist in Lebanon
Click to expand Image Reuters' journalist Issam Abdallah films an interview amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, April 17, 2022. © 2022 Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters (New York) – The...
View ArticleRussia: Shameful Pride in Torture of Terrorism Suspects
Click to expand Image Federal Security Service officials bring Dalderjon Mirzoev, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall's massacre, to the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on March 24, 2024. © 2024 Sefa...
View ArticleJapan Broadens Ban on Restraints of Jailed Women in Labor
Click to expand Image A sign reads "check door lock" on a gate inside Tochigi prison, Japan's largest women's prison, January 31, 2019. © 2019 Yo Nagaya During a Diet session last week, Japan’s...
View ArticleIran: Persecution of Baha’is
Click to expand Image Baha’i cemeteries have been desecrated or destroyed in several cities and towns. These tombstones in the Baha'i cemetery near Najafabad were left in a heap when the entire burial...
View ArticleMexico: Guanajuato Should Legally Recognize Trans Identities
Play Video (Mexico City) – Trans people in the Mexican state of Guanajuato suffer economic, medical, and labor discrimination, as well as other onerous legal impediments, because the state has no...
View ArticleRwanda: Genocide Archives Released
Click to expand Image One of many houses marked with the word "Tutsi" stands in a deserted village in eastern Rwanda, just a few kilometers from a church at Nyarubuye in which more than 1,000 people...
View ArticleColombia, Panama Fail to Protect Migrants in Darién Gap
Click to expand Image Migrants sit under a sign marking the Panama-Colombia border during their trek across the Darién Gap, May 9, 2023. Hundreds of people making the journey through the jungle have...
View ArticleCambodia: Threats, Bribes Tainted Senate Elections
Click to expand Image Former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen after voting for the Senate election at Takhmau polling station in Kandal province, Cambodia, February 25, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Heng...
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