Lebanon: US Arms Used in Israeli Strike on Journalists
Click to expand Image Two destroyed vehicles and a demolished building where three journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike at the Hasbaya Village Resort, in sourthern Lebanon on October 25,...
View ArticleConfronting South Africa’s Crisis of Gender-Based Violence
Click to expand Image Protesters march against gender-based violence in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa, September 13, 2019. © 2019 Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images...
View ArticleUN: Russia Vetoes Sudan Resolution Despite Global Support
Click to expand Image Displaced people gather to receive free breakfast meals at a neighborhood in Omdurman city, Sudan, August 1, 2024. © 2024 Mohamed Khidir/Xinhua via Getty Images Tomorrow Russia...
View ArticleLack of Progress at COP29 Puts Rights at Risk
Click to expand Image The COP29 U.N. Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 9, 2024. © 2024 Peter Dejong/AP Photo The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), which wrapped up last...
View ArticleThis #16Days, Remember Afghan Women and Girls
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, November 11, 2024. © 2024 Wakil Kosher/AFP via Getty Images The plight of Afghan women and...
View ArticleSri Lanka: New President Should Reset Course on Rights
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right) and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya during the swearing-in of the new cabinet members on November 18, 2024, in Colombo,...
View ArticleEU Should Reaffirm Support for ICC Arrests
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File After the International...
View ArticleUN Report Portrays Afghanistan’s Destroyed Media
Click to expand Image The Taliban flag flies over a National Radio Television of Takhar (RTA) building in Talogan, Afghanistan, on October 15, 2024. © 2024 AFP via Getty Images Today’s United Nations...
View ArticleChad: No Justice for Post Election Celebratory Shooting
Click to expand Image A resident of the Ridina district in N'Djamena shows the fragments of a projectile, that fell into a house on May 9, 2024, in N'Djamena following the announcement of the...
View ArticleMyanmar: ICC Prosecutor Requests Arrest Warrant
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017. © 2017 Jorge Silva/Reuters (New York) – The...
View ArticleChina State Bank Shouldn’t Back East African Crude Oil Pipeline
Click to expand Image Oil drilling pipes at the Tilenga Industrial Area, which will host the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), in Bulisa, Uganda, October 25, 2023. © 2023 Luke Dray/Bloomberg...
View ArticleIndonesian Domestic Workers’ Long Wait for Reform
Click to expand Image Activists during a protest and hunger strike demanding that parliament to pass a bill to protect domestic workers, at the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 14, 2023. ©...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Ensure Journalist Gets Fair Appeal
Click to expand Image Daniyar Adilbekov sitting in the defendants’ box at trial in Astana, Kazakhstan, September 2024. © 2024 Private (Berlin, November 28, 2024) – The authorities in Kazakhstan should...
View ArticleState of Mexico Congress Votes to Decriminalize Abortion
Click to expand Image Green handkerchiefs bearing the slogan "Abortion for All of Mexico" in front of the State of Mexico Congress on September 19, 2024, in Toluca, Mexico. © 2024 GIRE (Toluca) – The...
View ArticleZimbabwe Opposition Activists Freed After Five Months
Click to expand Image Activists with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party arrive at the Magistrates' courts in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 19, 2024. © 2024 MUNASHE...
View ArticleAustralia Passes Harsh New Anti-Migration Laws
Click to expand Image Activists gather in Brisbane's ANZAC Square to protest the indefinite detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Australian-run and funded facilities on the mainland and on...
View ArticleThailand: Cambodian Refugees Forcibly Returned
Click to expand Image Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo (Bangkok, November 29, 2024) –...
View ArticleIranian Authorities Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Journalist
Prison officers allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed Vida Rabbani, an Iranian journalist and activist, during a body search at Evin Prison in Tehran on October 3, an informed source told Human...
View ArticleGuinea: Rights at Risk as Promised Transition Derails
Click to expand Image Poster of Gen. Mamady Doumbouya in Conakry's streets, Guinea, September 2024 © 2024 Human Rights Watch The military authorities in Guinea have cracked down on the opposition,...
View ArticleICC: Member States Should Act to Protect Justice
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should...
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