Prominent Congolese Researcher Detained
Click to expand Image Jean-Jacques Wondo Omanyundu. © Private Today, Jean-Jacques Wondo, a well-known researcher on political and security issues in Africa’s Great Lakes region, will have an initial...
View ArticleYemen: Houthis Detain UN Staff and Civil Society Representatives
(Beirut) – Houthi authorities have reportedly raided the homes and offices of at least a dozen employees of various United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations on June 6, 2024, including...
View ArticleVietnam: Free Prominent Journalist
Click to expand Image Huy Duc in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 27, 2012. © 2012 Eastgarden/Wikimedia Commons (New York) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the prominent...
View ArticleTunisia: Many Face Prison Over Debts
Play Video Read a text description of this video 202311MENA_Tunisia_Debt_ImprisonmentFeature Script:SOUNDBITE: Jalia Hedhil [Mejid’s wife]Mejid is a person I can't describe, he's got a great...
View ArticleBrazil: Children’s Personal Photos Misused to Power AI Tools
Click to expand Image Two young girls are playing with their cameras in a garden, Osterode, Germany, January 8, 2016. © 2016 Frank May/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo (São Paulo, Brazil) – The personal...
View ArticleCourt Orders Guanajuato, Mexico, to Recognize Trans Identities
Play Video A federal court of first instance in Mexico recently ordered the Guanajuato State Congress to create a rights-respecting legal procedure so that transgender people can modify their identity...
View ArticleRepatriated Angolan Children Face Precarious Conditions
Click to expand Image Children collecting water in Cunene province, Oncocua, Angola, July 14, 2018. © 2018 Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images Namibian authorities are repatriating...
View ArticleIndia: New Government Should Refocus on Rights
Click to expand Image Narendra Modi takes oath as the prime minister of India at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi, June 9, 2024. © 2024 Manish Swarup/AP Photo (New York) – India’s new government...
View ArticleHong Kong: No Accountability 5 Years after Mass Protests
Click to expand Image A protestor shows five demands gesture as Hong Kong people participate in their annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, January 1, 2020. The five demands include democratic...
View ArticleUN Expert Slams Taliban Crimes Against Afghan Women, Girls
Click to expand Image Afghan women hold placards demanding their right to education, in Mazar-i-Sharif on June 26, 2023. © 2023 Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images On June 18, the United Nations special...
View ArticleLet’s Put Play on the Agenda
Click to expand Image A group of children play in a camp for internally displaced people in Sevare, Mali, February 28, 2020. © 2020 Michelle Cattani/AFP via Getty Images Today, the United Nations...
View ArticleThai Rights Commission Links Officials to ‘Disappearance’ of 9 Exiles
Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission on June 10 boldly entered uncharted waters by accusing state officials of the enforced disappearance of nine exiled Thai activists in neighboring countries....
View ArticleSouth Korea Still Blocking Abortion
Click to expand Image A message is typed on a smartphone, July 2022. © 2022 Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images Years after a South Korean court ordered the government to respect...
View ArticleTanzania: Police Linked to Killings at Gold Mine
Click to expand Image North Mara Gold Mine in Tarime district, northwest Tanzania. © 2022 Private (Nairobi) – Police in Tanzania guarding the North Mara Gold Mine have been linked to the killing of...
View ArticleUganda: Lack of Free Pre-Primary Education Creates Lifelong Harm
Click to expand Image Children at the private Kitante Primary School in Kampala, where the fees for pre-primary students are UGX 350,000 (US$ 93) per term, or UGX 1,050,000 (US$ 298) per year,...
View ArticlePeru: Congress Ramps Up Assault on Democratic System
Click to expand Image Constitutional Committee of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, in Lima, June 5, 2024. © 2024 Congress of the Republic of Peru. (Washington, DC) – Peru’s Congress is...
View ArticleSafety in Haiti Remains a Long Way off
Click to expand Image People gather in front of the San Francisco Federal Building to protest the Biden administration's handling of the Haitian refugee crisis in San Francisco, California, US,...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Prosecutors Seek 20 Years for Peaceful Critics
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protest against a controversial border demarcation deal and demand to free detained opposition politicians and activists, in Bishkek on October 24, 2022 © 2022...
View ArticleGreece: On Pylos Shipwreck Anniversary, Still No Justice
Click to expand Image Syrian survivor Mohammad, 18, who was rescued with other people after their boat, the Adriana, sank off the Greek coast, hugs his brother Fadi, who came to meet him from...
View ArticleIsrael Joins UN ‘List of Shame’ for Abuses Against Children in War
Click to expand Image People salvage belongings amid the rubble of a damaged building following strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, November 12, 2023. © 2023 Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty...
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