Nigeria Airstrike Victims Need Justice
Click to expand Image Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, center, with other community leaders at the grave side where victims of an army drone attack were buried in Tudun Biri...
View ArticleTanzania’s President Takes on Forced Evictions of Maasai Community
Click to expand Image A man herds his cattle to graze and find water in Ngorongoro district, Arusha region, Tanzania, on October 25, 2019. © 2019 Nichole Sobecki / VII / Redux On December 1,...
View ArticleUS: Agents Block, Mistreat Mexican Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image People living in Mexico cross a temporary bridge to meet with relatives living in the U.S., during the 10th annual "Hugs not Walls" event on a stretch of the Rio Grande, in...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Defense Lawyer Held, Charged in Apparent Retaliation
Click to expand Image The Kyrgyzstan flag is raised at Ala-Too Square, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 3, 2022. © 2022 Vladimir Voronin / AP (Bishkek, December 6, 2024) – Kyrgyzstani authorities...
View ArticleThe Need to Continue Protecting Syrian Refugees
Click to expand Image Hundreds of families have fled the eastern countryside of Idlib and western Aleppo, Syria, November 27, 2024. © 2024 Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via AP Photo The sudden escalation of...
View ArticleYemen’s Houthis Still Detaining UN, Civil Society Staff
Click to expand Image A convoy from the United Nations and World Food Program crosses from Houthi-controlled areas to a government-controlled area to reach grain mills in an eastern suburb of...
View ArticleA New Dawn for Syria
Click to expand Image A picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lies on the ground as a Syrian opposition fighter stands nearby, inside the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, December 8,...
View ArticleColombia: Labor Violations, Sexual Exploitation in Webcam Studios
Click to expand Image © 2024 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch Webcam models in Colombia have reported abusive, unhygienic working conditions, and coercion to perform nonconsensual sex acts while...
View ArticleUN: Deploy New Haiti Mission to Restore Security
Click to expand Image The social media slogan #HaitiCantWait is displayed as Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in high level meetings with an advisory group on Haiti at United Nations...
View ArticleArgentina: Don’t Name Supreme Court Justices by Decree
Argentina's President Javier Milei (R) is greeted by the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Horacio Rosatti (2nd-L) and the Attorney General (interim) Eduardo Casal (L) after swearing in as president in...
View ArticlePlanned UK-Gulf Trade Agreement Risks Implicating the UK in Labor Abuses
Click to expand Image Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud (L) and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talk during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro,...
View ArticleNiger: Prominent Civil Society Activist Arbitrarily Arrested
Click to expand Image Moussa Tiangari, Niamey, Niger, June 2024. © 2024 Amnesty International (Paris) – Niger’s military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil...
View ArticleAction Needed to Confront Domestic Violence in Central Asia
Click to expand Image Activists hold a rally to support women's rights on International Women's Day in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2023. © 2023 Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters December 10 marks the end of the...
View ArticleSudan: War Crimes in South Kordofan
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video filmed by men wearing RSF uniforms that Human Rights Watch geolocated to the village of Tungul, close to Habila, South Kordofan, Sudan. Houses on fire can...
View ArticlePoland: Brutal Pushbacks at Belarus Border
Click to expand Image A Polish soldier patrols the metal barrier border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, with migrants stranded on the Belarusian side, May 29, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Czarek...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan is Relentless in its Crackdown on Civil and Political Rights
Click to expand Image Kyrgyzstan Social Democrats party leader Temirlan Sultanbekov (L), chief campaigner Irina Karamushkina (C), and party member Roza Tyurksever after being detained in Bishkek on...
View ArticleAs Many Syrian Refugees Return Home, Others Cannot
Click to expand Image A Syrian refugee arrives with his family to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Oncupinar border crossing, December 10, 2024. © 2024 Ahmed Deeb/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo...
View ArticleGeorgia’s Human Rights Crisis Deepens Amid Mass Protests
Click to expand Image Thousands gather outside of Georgia’s parliament in Tbilisi to protest the ruling party’s decision to suspend EU accession talks, December 5, 2024. © 2024 Louis...
View ArticleVietnam: Repeal Harmful Internet Laws
Click to expand Image The Vietnamese government's Facebook page, Hanoi, December 30, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese government should repeal a draconian new decree tightening control...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Women Artists Help Drive Resistance to Taliban
Click to expand Image Infinite Power No 5 by Rada Akbar (L) and Monster by Fatima Wojohat © Rada Akbar and Fatima Wojohat Afghan women artists are playing a vital role in the women’s movement...
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