Tajikistan: EU States, Turkey Should Not Return Dissidents
Click to expand Image Groups protest against the visit of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and other Central Asian leaders to Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleTajikistan: EU States, Türkiye Should Not Return Dissidents
Click to expand Image Groups protest against the visit of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and other Central Asian leaders to Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleWest Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence
Click to expand Image A family packs up their belongings in Khirbet Zanuta, in the southern West Bank, on October 30, 2023. Attacks by settlers, in some cases accompanied by soldiers, forced all the...
View ArticleExplosive Weapons’ Dire Impact on Cultural Heritage
Click to expand Image A statue of 18th-century Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhorii Skovoroda stands amidst the ruins of a museum and memorial dedicated to him in Skovorodynivka in the Kharkivska...
View ArticleGerman Chancellor’s Trip to China a Wasted Opportunity
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits opposite of Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks at the State Guest House in Beijing, China, April 16, 2024. © 2024 Michael...
View ArticleUN Plastics Treaty Should Mandate Protection of Human Rights and Health
Click to expand Image A boy sits on a bicycle in front of a plastic recycling facility in Adana, Turkey. © 2021 Human Rights Watch Next week in Ottawa, countries will reconvene to continue...
View ArticleArmenia Strengthens Domestic Violence Law
Click to expand Image Taguhi shows scars on her neck and shoulder. In 2016, her former husband attacked her and her mother with an axe, killing her mother. © 2016 Nazik Armenakyan (Daphne.am)...
View ArticleLandmark Court Ruling Upholds Right to Healthy Environment
Click to expand Image The Metalurgia Business Peru metallurgical complex in the city of La Oroya, in the department of Junín, east of Lima, November 9, 2022. © Last month, the Inter-American Court of...
View ArticleCivilians at Risk as Large-Scale Fighting Looms in Darfur
Click to expand Image Destruction in a market area in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, September 1, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images After a months-long, uneasy détente between...
View ArticleGambia: Bill Threatens Female Genital Mutilation Ban
(Abuja) – A bill before Gambia’s National Assembly to reverse a groundbreaking 2015 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) jeopardizes the rights of women and girls in the country, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleJordan: Syrian Student Faces Imminent Deportation
(Amman) – Jordanian authorities should halt the imminent deportation of a Syrian communications student who faces a significant risk of persecution if forcibly returned to Syria, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleQatar, Nepal, Bangladesh: Emir’s Visits Should Prioritize Migrant Worker...
Click to expand Image Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, emir of Qatar, in Doha, November 29, 2023. © 2023 Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo (Beirut) – The upcoming visits of the Emir...
View ArticleIran: Security Forces Rape, Torture, Detainees
Click to expand Image Silhouette of a woman (representation). © coldsnowstorm/Getty Images (Beirut) – Iran's security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing...
View ArticleVietnam: UN Review Should Call for Urgent Reform
Click to expand Image Twelve Vietnamese rights activists and bloggers currently detained for exercising their basic rights. Top row from left to right: Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Hoang Duc Binh, Dinh Van...
View ArticleOn Earth Day, a Homage to a Beloved Forest Defender
Click to expand Image Osvalinda Marcelino Alves Pereira. © Edelstam Foundation This Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the work of the courageous people who put themselves at risk fighting for...
View ArticleAngola: Proposed Security Law Threatens Rights
Click to expand Image The National Assembly building in Luanda, Angola, February 13, 2013. © 2013 FrankvandenBergh/Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Angola’s parliament should significantly revise or...
View ArticleKazakhstan: New Law to Protect Women Improved, but Incomplete
Click to expand Image Activists hold a rally to support women's rights on International Women's Day in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2023. © 2023 Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters (Berlin, April 23, 2024) –...
View ArticleThe UK Again Attempts to Bend Truth on Rwanda
Click to expand Image President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, UK, May 4, 2023. © 2023 Press Association via AP Photo In an interview on the BBC’s Today Program this...
View ArticleCan New African Union Genocide Envoy Curb Atrocities in Africa?
Click to expand Image Adama Dieng, then-UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, New York, June 2019. © 2019 Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Adama Dieng has been...
View ArticleAustralia: Withdraw Punitive Migration Bill
Click to expand Image Demonstrators march on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers in Melbourne, Australia, April 19, 2021. © 2021 Diego Fedele/Getty Images (Sydney) – The Australian government should...
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