Sri Lanka Blocks Exam Results over Muslim Head Coverings
Click to expand Image Girls walk along a road in Kattankudy, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019. © 2019 Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP via Getty Images Government officials in Sri Lanka are withholding exam...
View ArticleIran Court Hands Down New Sentence Against Nobel Laureate
Click to expand Image Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, Tehran, Iran, April 2, 2021. © 2021 Reihane Taravati/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Last week, an...
View ArticleThailand: Rights Activist Shot Dead in Deep South
Click to expand Image Roning Dolah, anti-torture activist, was shot dead on June 25, 2024 in Thailand's Pattani province. © 2023 Duay Jai Foundation (Bangkok) – Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a...
View ArticleIraq: Unlawful Deportations of Syrians
Click to expand Image Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Iraq March 17, 2020. © 2020 Azad Lashkari/Reuters (Beirut) – Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and Erbil have arbitrarily detained and deported...
View ArticleUS: An Outlier in Denying Voting Rights for Criminal Convictions
Click to expand Image Spellman Bernard Smith, Jr., 78, center, stands in line with other voters at Rosemont Middle School in Norfolk, Virginia, on Election Day, November 8, 2016, to cast his vote....
View ArticleConflict in Northern Mozambique Puts Education at Risk
Click to expand Image The Pulo Primary School after an insurgent attack on the village of Pulo, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, March 6, 2024. © 2024 Juan Luis Rod/AFP via Getty Images The good...
View ArticlePeru Walks Back Anti-Trans Guidance in Health System
Click to expand Image Peruvians protest in front of Peru's Ministry of Health against a presidential decree classifying transgender identities as mental health conditions in Lima, Peru, May 17, 2024....
View ArticleSisi Government's Repression Taints Egypt-EU Investment Conference
Click to expand Image Austria Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen, Egypt president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,...
View ArticleConcerns Over ‘Transnational Repression’ Raised at UN Rights Body
Click to expand Image United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023. © 2023 Denis Balibouse/Reuters Many journalists living in exile are being targeted by their home...
View ArticleSierra Leone Acts to Ban Child Marriage
Click to expand Image A student poses for a portrait in the classroom of her school in Koidu, Kono district, Sierra Leone, on November 24, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Leo Correa Last week, Sierra Leone’s...
View ArticleMyanmar: Junta Evading International Sanctions
Click to expand Image (New York) – The United States, European Union, and other governments should urgently counter illicit activities by foreign banks that are assisting the Myanmar military in...
View ArticleKenya: Witnesses Describe Police Killing Protesters
Click to expand Image A protester holds a Kenyan flag during the nationwide demonstration against proposed legislation which would increase taxes across the country's economy, June 25, 2024. © 2024...
View ArticleKenya: Witnesses Describe Police Killing Protesters
Click to expand Image A protester holds a Kenyan flag during the nationwide demonstration against proposed legislation which would increase taxes across the country's economy, June 25, 2024. © 2024...
View ArticleASEAN Environmental Rights Declaration Needs Transparency
Click to expand Image Activists protest against deforestation by palm oil companies on Indigenous land in Papua, outside the Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 27, 2024. © 2024 Willy...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine: All Victims Have Right to Reparation for Abuses
Click to expand Image Children watch airstrikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 13, 2024. © 2024 AFP via Getty Images (Geneva) – All victims of gross human rights violations in...
View ArticleUzbekistan: 2 Years on, No Justice in Autonomous Republic
Click to expand Image Twenty-two defendants, including blogger and lawyer Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, listen to the verdict in their trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main...
View ArticleGuinea: Massacre Trial Awaits Landmark Verdict
Click to expand Image Victims and their families of crimes committed during Guinea’s 2009 stadium massacre line up to enter a courthouse in Conakry, Guinea on September 28, 2022 the first day of the...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council: Beirut Blast Inquiry Needed
Click to expand Image Smoke rises from the port after the explosion on August 4, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. © 2020 Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Beirut) – The United Nations Human Rights...
View ArticleUsing AI to Fight Trafficking Is Dangerous
Click to expand Image © Shutterstock/Syda Productions The US State Department has released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIPs) Report ranking nearly 200 countries’ anti-trafficking efforts.The...
View ArticleSouth Sudan’s Authorities Show Their Aversion to Criticism Yet Again
Click to expand Image Aleu Anyieth (left) and Bol Deng Bol (right). © Facebook and Private Last week, authorities in Jonglei state detained a photojournalist with the state-run South Sudan...
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