Cambodia: Court Ruling Keeps Opposition Leader in Custody
Click to expand Image Kem Sokha, the imprisoned former president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 3, 2023. © 2023 Heng Sinith/AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Phnom Penh...
View ArticleIndia: Violence Marks Ram Temple Inauguration
Click to expand Image A man waves a flag with the Hindu god Ram to celebrate the opening of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya city, India, January 16, 2024. © 2024 Altaf Qadri/AP Photo (New York) – Indian...
View ArticleCould World Court Address Women’s Rights in Afghanistan?
Click to expand Image Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 3, 2021. © 2021 Wali Sabawoon/AP Photo International attention has...
View ArticleJapan Again Calls Out Chinese Government’s Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image Chen Xu, China’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 23, 2024. © 2024 Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Photo...
View ArticleChina: Religious Regulations Tighten for Uyghurs
Click to expand Image Over 5000 students pledge loyalty to the “Motherland” in a July mass ceremony in Hotan, Xinjiang. © Hotan Prefecture state television (New York) – The Chinese government’s...
View ArticleProposed US Law Would Protect Human Rights Defenders
Click to expand Image A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images Today, United States Senator Ben Cardin introduced the Human...
View ArticleSudan Conflict Fuels World’s Largest Internal Displacement
Click to expand Image People displaced by conflict walk with their belongings in Wad Madani, the capital of al-Jazirah state, Sudan, December 16, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images Last week, the...
View ArticleGaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine
Click to expand Image People line up for bread at a partially collapsed but still operational bakehouse in Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza, November 4, 2023. © 2023 Ashraf Amra/Anadolu...
View ArticleItaly’s Dodgy Detention Deal with Albania
Click to expand Image Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama (L) and Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni shake hands after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on migrant detention centers during a...
View ArticleChina: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor
Play Video Read a text description of this video VOICEOVER:Do you have a car? If so, then parts of your car could be made with forced labor from China. Let's explain how. The first thing you need to...
View ArticleSpyware Targets Human Rights Watch Staff in Jordan
Click to expand Image A message is typed on a smartphone, July 2022. © 2022 Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images (Amman) – Two Human Rights Watch staff members based in Jordan...
View ArticleUS: Texas Border Policies Threaten Deadly Outcomes
Click to expand Image People hold a banner during a protest against Operation Lone Star after members of the Texas National Guard shot and wounded a 22-year-old near the Bridge of the Americas in El...
View ArticleCameroon’s #MeToo Moment
Click to expand Image A traffic policewoman stands in downtown Yaounde, Cameroon, October 9, 2018. © 2018 Zohra Bensemra/Reuters Over the past ten days, the #MeToo movement has seen a resurgence in...
View ArticleJapan Police Accused of Racial Profiling
Click to expand Image The plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging racial profiling filed in Tokyo, Japan, January 29, 2024. © 2024 Ayaka McGill/AP Photo Three ethnic minority residents of Japan filed a...
View ArticleDR Congo: Free Prominent Journalist, Drop Charges
Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd (Kinshasa) – The Democratic Republic of Congo authorities should immediately and...
View ArticleMalawi Military’s Threats Send Journalist into Hiding
Click to expand Image Malawi's newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera takes the oath of office in Lilongwe, Malawi, Sunday June 28, 2020. © AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi A top investigative journalist in...
View ArticleTürkiye: Ensure Accountability for Deaths in Earthquake
Click to expand Image A man beside the rubble of a building in Antakya, southern Türkiye, on March 6, 2023, one month after the devastating earthquakes in which over 50,000 people died and hundreds of...
View ArticleBurkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Quit Regional Bloc
Click to expand Image West African leaders before an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, August 10, 2023. © 2023 Abraham Achirga/Reuters On January 28, the...
View ArticleAnother Niger Media Organization Suspended
Click to expand Image Police officers on the sidelines of a march in support of the coup plotters in Niger’s capital, Niamey, July 30, 2023. © 2023 Djibo Issifou/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The...
View ArticleStill No Justice for Slain Lebanese Researcher’s Family
Click to expand Image Mourners and activists at a monument for Lokman Slim during his memorial service, Beirut, Lebanon, February 11, 2021. © 2021 Hussein Malla/AP Photo Three years ago today,...
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