A Generation of Children Impacted by Covid-19 School Closures
Cataclysm. Inordinate suffering. Widespread disruption. Intergenerational loss. This is only a snapshot of the terms used by experts to describe the fragile situation of education systems around the...
View ArticleEU's Generous Response to Ukraine Refugees Shows Another Way is Possible
Click to expand Image People fleeing Ukraine enter Poland through the border crossing Korczowa, Poland, March 4, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu The outpouring of solidarity and empathy for people...
View ArticleChad: Killings by Security Forces in East
Click to expand Image Screenshot from a January 25, 2022 video showing a military vehicle, in the city of Abéché, near the Tago Zagolocemetery where Chadian security forces indiscriminately opened...
View ArticleRussia: Brutal Arrests and Torture, Ill-Treatment of Anti-War Protesters
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a protester in Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Russia on March 6, 2022. © 2022 Dmitry Lebedev/Kommersant/Sipa via AP Images (Berlin) – Russian authorities have...
View ArticleUK Ministry of Justice Treats People with Disabilities as an Afterthought
Click to expand Image Disability rights campaigners protest outside the Houses of Parliament, in Westminster, London on June 24, 2015. © 2015 Press Association via AP Images There is a mantra in the...
View ArticleTrying to Survive in a Besieged Ukrainian City
Click to expand Image Civilians flee the city of Sumy, Ukraine after a temporary ceasefire was announced on March 8, 2022. © 2022 Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images On...
View ArticleKazakhstan Should Criminalize Domestic Violence as Part of Reforms
Click to expand Image Participants at the international Women's Day rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2022. © 2022 Stanislav Beketov At a peaceful rally marking International Women’s Day on March...
View ArticleCovid-19 Vaccine Access is a Right, Not a Privilege
Click to expand Image People wait in a queue to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at an inoculation center, in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, February 25, 2022. © 2022 Suvra Kanti Das/Sipa via AP Images This...
View ArticleFree the Data for Ukraine’s Children
Click to expand Image A girl who fled Ukraine with relatives sits on a bunk bed in a classroom converted into an emergency shelter at a school in Zahony in northeastern Hungary, on the border with...
View ArticleReform Sri Lanka’s Draconian Abortion Law
Click to expand Image Progressive Women's Collective during a protest march for International Women's Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 8, 2021. © 2021 Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto via AP Sri Lanka has...
View ArticleToxic Pollution Demands ‘Immediate, Ambitious Action’
Click to expand Image Morning haze and smog envelops the skyline in New Delhi, India, November 5, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Altaf Qadri A new report by United Nations experts is raising renewed alarms...
View ArticleDrop Complaint Against Iraq Human Rights Commission Member
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court building in Baghdad, Iraq, June 21, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Hadi Mizban An abusive legal complaint has been filed against a member of Iraq’s High Commission for...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Air-Dropped Bombs Hit Residential Area
Russian aircraft dropped multiple unguided bombs simultaneously on March 3, 2022, that hit an intersection in a residential neighborhood of Chernihiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleCovid-19 Pandemic’s Human Rights Failures Persist
Click to expand Image A health worker takes a swab sample of a man to test for Covid-19 in Ahmedabad, India, January 17, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File (New York) – Governments should...
View ArticleChina: US Should Fully Apply New Forced Labor Law
Click to expand Image Planting of a cotton field in China’s Xinjiang region, during a government-organized trip for foreign journalists, near Urumqi, April 21, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mark...
View ArticleTunisia: Looming Curbs on Civil Society Must Be Stopped
Click to expand Image Tunisian President Kais Saied raises his fist to bystanders as he walks along the avenue Bourguiba in Tunis, Tunisia, August 1, 2021. © 2021 Slim Abid/Tunisian Presidency via...
View ArticleImportant Step Toward Justice in DR Congo?
Click to expand Image Women demonstrate for peace in Beni, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, April 23, 2021. © 2021 Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro The Congolese human rights minister launched national...
View ArticleUzbekistan Ends Systemic Forced Labor, Civil Society Says
Click to expand Image A woman picks cotton during the 2015 cotton harvest, which runs from early September to late October or early November annually. © 2015 Simon Buxton/Anti-Slavery International...
View ArticleMexico: Shelve Regressive Bill to Curb Civil Society Groups
Click to expand Image At his daily morning news conference on May 7, 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador baselessly accuses civil society groups of being part of a plot to overthrow...
View ArticleTunisia: Military Court Jails Prominent Lawyer
Click to expand Image Abderrazak Kilani © Private (Tunis) – The jailing of a prominent lawyer on March 2, 2022, for arguing with police officers is an alarming new step in the confiscation of civil...
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