Lebanon: Flawed Investigations of Politically-Sensitive Murders
Click to expand Image Security forces inspect the scene where Lokman Slim, a political activist and researcher, was found shot dead in his car in Addoussieh in southern Lebanon on February 4, 2021. ©...
View Article‘Everything Has to Make Way for the Winter Olympics’
Click to expand Image Chinese paramilitary police walk on the Olympic Green at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, January 30, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein “All efforts to save the Winter...
View ArticleNortheast Syria: Fate of Hundreds of Boys Trapped in Siege Unknown
Click to expand Image Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces deploy around al-Sina’a prison in the Ghweran district of al-Hasakah, northeast Syria, on January 25, 2022, midway through...
View ArticleAfrican Union: Focus on Rights, Justice at Summit
(Addis Ababa) – President Macky Sall of Senegal should ensure that civilian protection, human rights, and justice and accountability are the focus of the African Union’s agenda as he takes over...
View ArticleDeath of Immigration Detainee an Urgent Wake-Up Call for Canada
Click to expand Image Entrance to the Canadian Border Security Agency's (CBSA) Laval Immigration Holding Centre in Quebec, Canada. © Wikimedia On January 28, a person held in immigration detention in...
View ArticleUS: Border Program’s Huge Toll on Children
Click to expand Image A child plays at a camp for US asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, a city south of the Texas border where hundreds have been waiting under the "Remain in Mexico" program, on...
View ArticleGlimmer of Hope for Pakistani Workers
Click to expand Image Workers at a textile factory in Faisalabad, Pakistan on June 7, 2013. © 2013 AP Photo/B.K. Bangash Labor rights advocates in Pakistan have after many years persuaded the...
View ArticleDR Congo: Sham Trial for Murders of UN Experts
Click to expand Image Zaida Catalán and Michael Sharp. © Instagram/Zaida Catalán; John Sharp (Kinshasa) – A four-year trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo failed to uncover the full truth about...
View ArticleJapan Calls for Monitoring China’s Human Rights Situations
Click to expand Image Japanese House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo that adopted a resolution expressing concern over the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang region and Hong Kong...
View ArticleQatar: Arbitrary Travel Bans
Click to expand Image From Left to Right: Saud Khalifa al-Thani, Najeeb al-Nueimi, Abdullah al-Mohannadi, Muhammad al-Sulaiti. © Private 2022 (Beirut) – Qatari state security authorities have imposed...
View ArticleTajikistan: Restore Internet in Autonomous Region
Click to expand Image Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon attends a meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan September 16,...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Grave Abuses Under Discredited Law
Click to expand Image Security personnel gesture to stop motorists at a checkpoint in Divulapitiya on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on October 4, 2020. © 2020 Ishara S. Kodikara...
View ArticleBahrain: Boys Arbitrarily Detained in Orphanage
Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Bahrain authorities are detaining six boys, ages 14 and 15, in a child welfare facility, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy and...
View ArticleIndia: Kashmiri Journalist Held Under Abusive Laws
Click to expand Image Fahad Shah, right, editor-in-chief of the Kashmir-based news website, The Kashmir Walla, in his office in Srinagar, India, January 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File (New...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Embraces Attacks on Transgender Kids
Click to expand Image Protesters march against a bill restricting transgender girls from sports teams near the state capitol in Pierre, South Dakota on March 11, 2021. © 2021 Toby Brusseau/AP Images...
View ArticleUK Pushbacks are 'Morally Reprehensible'
Click to expand Image A damaged inflatable small boat is pictured on the shore in Calais, northern France, November 25, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Michel Spingler Today, the House of Lords has the chance...
View ArticleTunisia: Secret Detentions Under Cover of State of Emergency
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather during a protest against President Kais Saied on September 18, 2021, in Tunis. © 2021 AP Photo/Riadh Drid (Tunis) – The Tunisian authorities are using what...
View ArticleUK Energy Price Hike Threatens to Worsen Poverty Crisis
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards during a rally urging the government to help people with their energy bills, London, United Kingdom, January 31, 2022. © 2022 Vuk Valcic / SOPA...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Set Independent Inquiry into January Events
Click to expand Image Troops are seen at the main square in Almaty, Kazakhstan where hundreds of people were protesting against the government, after authorities' decision to lift price caps on...
View ArticleChina: Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Health in Peril
Click to expand Image Go Sherab Gyatso, summer 2020. © Private (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately and unconditionally release the imprisoned Tibetan monk and religious philosopher...
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