US: Don’t Roll Back New York Pretrial Reforms
Click to expand Image A participant holds a “Build Communities” sign at a rally on Rikers Island in New York, NY. © 2020 Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images (New York, NY, March 24,...
View ArticleAfghan Girls Grieve After School Ban Reinstated
Click to expand Image Afghan girls attend class at a high school in Herat, Afghanistan, November 25, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File “For Afghan girls, the earth is unbearable, and the...
View ArticleMyanmar: Armed Forces Day Spotlights Atrocities
Click to expand Image Military personnel participate in a parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Saturday, March 27, 2021. © AP Photo (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day on March 27,...
View ArticleExtreme Heat Dangers When Pregnant in Pakistan
Click to expand Image Women arrive at an agricultural farm in Lahore, Punjab province, Pakistan on March 5, 2021. © 2021 ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images A new video shows how rising temperatures are...
View ArticleKazakhstan Authorities Should Drop Charges, Release Opposition Activist
Click to expand Image Zhanbolat Mamay © Inga Imanbay This week Kazakhstan celebrated a major holiday marking the beginning of Spring, Nowruz/Nauryz. For Kazakhs, it is a time of street festivals,...
View ArticleUK Government Fails Low-Income Households
Click to expand Image Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons to deliver the Spring Statement in London, March 23, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s Changes to Abusive Security Law Superficial
Click to expand Image Activists protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Act outside the UN office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 3, 2022. Placards in Sinhalese read "Stop bogus amendments," left,...
View ArticleEgypt: Police Target Sudanese Refugee Activists
Click to expand Image Men sitting in a cafe predominantly visited by Sudanese migrants in Cairo, Egypt, 08 August 2017. © 2017 Oliver Weiken/picture alliance via Getty Images (Beirut) – Egyptian...
View ArticleAustralia Inquiry on Beijing Academic Freedom Threats
Click to expand Image Students at the University of New South Wales campus in Sydney, Australia, December 1, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Mark Baker, File On Friday, the Australian parliament’s Joint...
View ArticleColombia/Venezuela: Border Area Abuses by Armed Groups
Click to expand Image An improvised shelter in Vichada state, Colombia, where Indigenous people fleeing Venezuela's Apure state live in poor conditions, without sufficient access to food, drinking...
View ArticleWorld Cup Draw Feted in Qatar, but Migrants Left in Lurch
On April 1, the final draw for the 2022 World Cup is set to take place in Qatar, which is hosting the tournament. This is a major event for football fans, who will be hoping for good luck and a...
View ArticleAct Now on Older People’s Rights
Click to expand Image Advocates for the rights of older people -- Elisha, from Tanzania (left), and Amarsanaa, from Mongolia -- attend the Open Ended Working Group on Ageing in New York, December...
View ArticleIran: Jailed Environmentalist Ends Hunger Strike
Click to expand Image Morad Tahbaz © 2015 Morad Tahbaz/Facebook (Beirut) – An Iranian-American-British conservationist convicted in Iran on bogus national security charges has ended his weeklong...
View ArticleCambodia: French Court Indicts Hun Sen Cronies
Click to expand Image A survivor points to a picture of herself on the 11th anniversary of the March 30, 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 30, 2008. © 2008 Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via...
View ArticleFIFA, Qatar Should Meet Rights Commitments
Click to expand Image Construction workers at the site of the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, Doha, Qatar, November 12, 2018. ©2018 Sharil Babu/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Beirut) – Journalists should...
View ArticleSudan: ICC Holds First Darfur Trial
Click to expand Image Ali Mohammed Ali, known as Ali Kosheib or Kushayb, in The Hague, Netherlands. during the opening of his confirmation hearing on charges for crimes in Darfur, Sudan. © 2021...
View ArticleUkraine: Russia Uses Banned Antipersonnel Landmines
Click to expand Image POM-3 antipersonnel mines that failed to deploy and remnants of its delivery canister found by deminers in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine on or around March 28. © March 2022,...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Broad ‘State of Emergency’ Risks Abuse
Click to expand Image Soldiers guard a checkpoint at the entrance of the Las Palmas Community, in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 27, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Salvador Melendez. (Washington, DC) – A...
View ArticleEnsure Funding for UN Investigation in Ethiopia
Click to expand Image Children in front of the Africa/Ayga hotel likely damaged by a direct fire weapon in Humera town, Tigray region, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020. © 2020 Eduardo Soteras for Agence...
View ArticleEU: No Business as Usual at China Summit
Click to expand Image European Council President Charles Michel, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen participate in a media conference at the conclusion of the 2020 EU-China...
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