Iran: Security Forces Killing Kurdish Border Couriers
Click to expand Image Kulbars carry goods on their backs along the mountains of the Iran-Iraq border, Kurdistan, Iran, April 29, 2017. © 2017 Abed Jalilpouran/Middle East Images/Middle East Images via...
View ArticleZimbabwe: SADC Should Respond to Intensified Crackdown on Opponents
Click to expand Image Opposition supporters protest outside a court, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Thursday, June 27, 2024. The protesters were angered by a magistrate's decision to deny bail to close to 80...
View ArticleNew EU Leadership Should Uphold the Right to Asylum in Europe
Click to expand Image A migrant reception center at the port of Shenjin, northwestern Albania, June 5, 2024. © 2024 Vlasov Sulaj/AP Photo (Brussels) – The EU and its member states should safeguard the...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: 20-Year Sentence for Tweets
Click to expand Image Asaad al-Ghamdi. © Private. (Beirut) – A Saudi court has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison on charges related to his peaceful social media activity, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: Journalist, Junta Critics Feared Disappeared
Click to expand Image Serge Oulon signing his books at the Norbert Zongo press center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 2023. © 2023 Private (Nairobi) – Burkina Faso authorities should urgently...
View ArticleRefugees in Eastern Sudan at Risk
Click to expand Image Umm Rakouba refugee camp, hosting people who fled the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, December 14, 2020. © 2020 Nariman EI-Mofty/AP Photo...
View ArticleKazakhstan Should Reject Attempt to Curtail LGBT People’s Rights
Click to expand Image A rainbow LGBT pride flag. © Wikimedia Commons In June, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Culture and Information said it was reviewing a petition, “We Are against Open and Hidden LGBT...
View ArticleEU Should Add Xinjiang, Aluminum to Forced Labor Database
Click to expand Image A guard stands in a tower on the perimeter of the Number 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mark...
View ArticleUAE: Unfair Trial, Unjust Sentences
Click to expand Image Ahmed Mansoor plays with his children as he speaks to Reuters in Dubai November 30, 2011. © 2011 REUTERS/Nikhil Monteiro (Beirut) – The convictions of at least 44 defendants in...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Army Commander Threatens Election Integrity
Click to expand Image Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa (3rd R) inspects the guard of honor at the country's 43rd Independence Day celebrations held in Mount Darwin, Mashonaland Central province,...
View ArticleUN Rights Council Takes Big Step for Treaty on Free Education
Click to expand Image A pupil at a free government pre-primary school, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, November 2022. © 2022 Bede Sheppard / Human Rights Watch The United Nation’s preeminent human rights body,...
View ArticleBhutan: Urgently Reform Justice System, Prison Conditions
(New York) – A man who served 30 years in a Bhutanese prison for distributing political pamphlets has said that political detainees like him are surviving on meager rations and are reduced to using...
View ArticleRussia’s July 8 Attack on a Children’s Hospital in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Emergency services work at the site of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka (Kyiv) - Russian...
View Article‘Dark Day’ in Malawi for Rights of LGBT People
Click to expand Image A young transgender woman at a friend’s house seeking temporary shelter in Lilongwe, Malawi. © 2018 Human Rights Watch Malawi’s Constitutional Court on June 28 rejected a legal...
View ArticleLithuania: Don’t Leave Global Ban on Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Lithuania’s representative signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008. © 2008 Gunnar Mjaugedal/Catchlight.no (Berlin) – Lithuania’s...
View ArticleIn Guinea, Fears of Torture of Forcibly Disappeared Opponents
Click to expand Image Oumar Sylla, known as Foniké Mengué, at the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution headquarters in Conakry, Guinea, May 2022. © 2022 Private On the evening of July 9,...
View ArticleIran: New President Should Confront Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian greets supporters in Tehran, July 6, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo / Vahid Salemi (Beirut) – Incoming Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian should...
View ArticleUS: Drug-Linked Deportations Soar Despite State Reforms
Click to expand Image Miguel Perez holds a photo of his son Miguel Perez Jr., on April 4, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Perez Jr. is an immigrant and US army veteran who was deported after serving seven...
View ArticleIran: New President Should End Abuse of Border Couriers
Click to expand Image Kulbars carry goods on their backs along the mountains of the Iran-Iraq border, Kurdistan, Iran, April 29, 2017. © 2017 Abed Jalilpouran/Middle East Images/Middle East Images via...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Decision Undermines Right to Housing
Click to expand Image Police look into a tent at an encampment for unhoused people in Philadelphia, May 8, 2024. © 2024 Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP The United States Supreme Court...
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