Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks
Click to expand Image Palestinian workers from Gaza, whom Israeli authorities had detained after October 7, were released to Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing on November 3, 2023 after spending weeks...
View ArticleKiller Robots: UN Vote Should Spur Action on Treaty
Click to expand Image Campaign to Stop Killer Robots robot at the United Nations in New York in October 2019. © 2019 Campaign to Stop Killer Robots/Ari Beser (New York, January 3, 2023) – Countries...
View ArticleSwitzerland/Gambia: Jammeh-Era Crimes on Trial
Click to expand Image Victims and representatives from non-governmental organizations stand in front of the Celle Higher Regional Court in Celle, Germany. © 2022 Whitney-Martina Nosakhare/Human Rights...
View ArticleBelgium’s Leadership Should Promote Human Rights in China Visit
Click to expand Image Belgium Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during the presentation of the official program of the upcoming Belgian Presidency of the European...
View ArticleWorld Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel
Click to expand Image The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, August 27, 2018. © 2018 Mike Corder/AP Photo (The Hague) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on...
View ArticleIran: Chokehold on Dissent
Click to expand Image Women walk on the streets of Tehran as Iran’s “morality police” resume hijab patrols, July 18, 2023. © 2023 Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iranian...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Bias at Home Harms Regional Rights Efforts
Click to expand Image A rainbow banner is held aloft during the Seoul Queer Culture Festival in Seoul, South Korea, July 1, 2023. © AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon (Bangkok) – South Korean President Yoon...
View ArticleMaldives: New President Should Embrace Rights Reforms
Click to expand Image Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu speaks at COP28 UN Climate Summit, December 1, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. © AP Photo/Rafiq 2023 (Bangkok) – The Maldives government...
View ArticleGlobal Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away
Read a text description of this video SOUNDBITE: Tirana Hassan, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, 2024-01-03, New York (USA):From renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas to the tremendous...
View ArticleLebanon: Rights Under Threat Amid Crisis
Click to expand Image A demonstrator holds a Lebanese flag as he stands near smoke rising from tear gas during a protest over the deteriorating economic situation, at Riad al-Solh square in Beirut,...
View ArticleLibya: Rights Violations Unchecked as Divisions Persist
Click to expand Image People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, September 15, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova (Beirut) – Another turbulent year for human rights in Libya passed as...
View ArticleIraq: Reforms Needed to Entrench Stability
Click to expand Image Supporters of Iraqi Sadrist Movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr pull down a concrete barrier during a protest against corruption, in Baghdad, Iraq, July 30, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleJordan: New Threats to Civic Space
Click to expand Image People protest near the Israeli Embassy in Amman on October 18, 2023, as they demonstrate against the killing of hundreds of Palestinians following a strike on a hospital in the...
View ArticleTunisia: Authoritarian Drift Erodes Rights
Click to expand Image Migrants hold placards reading "Black Lives Matter", left in French, during a gathering in Sfax, Tunisia's eastern coast, on July 7, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo (Tunis) – Tunisia...
View ArticleSyria: Abuses Persist Amid Economic Crisis
Click to expand Image A destroyed tent can be seen as a result of a missile attack targeted a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Idlib city by the Syrian government. © 2023 Anas...
View ArticleUS: Little Progress on Persistent Rights Challenges
Click to expand Image A migrant embraces his son after finishing the long journey to the US from Venezuela, in Eagle Pass, Texas, September 25, 2023. © 2023 Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via...
View ArticleUAE: Hosting COP28 Amid Longstanding Repression
Click to expand Image The Al Wasl Dome at Expo City during the COP28 UN Climate Summit, December 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. © 2023 AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool (Beirut) – The United Arab...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Renewed Engagement Offers Rights Opportunities
Click to expand Image More than 1000 people gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan on International Women’s Day to protest against sexual abuse and domestic violence, March 8, 2023. © 2023 ANTON...
View ArticleBelarus: Crackdown Amid Growing Information Vacuum
Click to expand Image Activists gather in support of ‘Freedom to Political Prisoners of Belarus’ on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the Market Square in Krakow, Poland . © 2023 Artur Widak via Getty Images...
View ArticleRussia: New Heights on Repression
Click to expand Image Aleksandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician facing charges of spreading false information about the army after replacing supermarket price tags with slogans...
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