Responding to Taliban Attacks on Women’s Rights
Click to expand Image Afghan women demonstrate for girls’ secondary schools to reopen, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin March 21: Taliban announce girls’...
View ArticleBangladesh: Indigenous Activist Dies in Military Custody
Click to expand Image Activists of Chittagong Hill Tracts Jana Sanghati Samiti stage a protest rally demanding the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord, in Dhaka,...
View ArticleNew Evidence that Biometric Data Systems Imperil Afghans
Click to expand Image A United States military official takes the fingerprints of a man in Afghanistan. © 2010 AP Photo/Julie Jacobson The Taliban control systems holding sensitive biometric data...
View ArticleCracks in South Sudan’s Fragile Peace Could Further Harm Civilians
Click to expand Image South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings on October 20, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File Clashes in...
View ArticleTaliban Intensify Attacks on Afghan Media
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters at main gate outside Kandahar city, Afghanistan, November 25, 2021. © 2021 Alfred Yaghobzadeh/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images “It’s so hard to report from Afghanistan...
View ArticleRestoring Access to Asylum at the US Border
Click to expand Image Asylum seeking families attend a traditional Las Posadas event at the US-Mexico border wall, on the Mexico side, December 15, 2020, in Douglas, Arizona. © 2020 AP Photo/Ross D....
View ArticleAustralia: Chemical Restraint Persists in Aged Care
Click to expand Image An older woman at a nursing home in Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia. © 2017 Karen McFarland/Shutterstock (Sydney) – The Australian government should end nursing homes’ use...
View ArticleUkraine: Civilians in Besieged Chernihiv Need Access to Essentials
Click to expand Image Damaged residential buildings in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, where civilians have had limited access to running water, electricity, or heat since Russian forces...
View ArticleIran: Women Blocked From Entering Stadium
Click to expand Image Female Iranian spectators cheer as they wave their country's flag during a friendly soccer match between Iran and Bolivia, at the Azadi (Freedom) stadium, in Tehran, Iran,...
View ArticleIndia: Rohingya Deported to Myanmar Face Danger
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees stand outside their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu, India, March 7, 2021. © AP Photo/Channi Anand (New York) – The Indian government’s forced return...
View ArticleNicaragua: UN Creates Rights Monitor
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleCanada Should Mark Ramadan by Helping Bring Home Unlawfully Detained Muslims
Click to expand Image A girl stands in the annex of al-Hol, a camp in northeast Syria detaining thousands of foreign women and children from countries including Canada as family members of Islamic...
View ArticleUS: Congress Should Protect Child Farmworkers
Click to expand Image A 16-year-old worker harvests tobacco on a farm in Kentucky. © 2013 Marcus Bleasdale/VII for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – A bill reintroduced in the United States House...
View ArticleUkraine: Apparent POW Abuse Would Be War Crime
(New York) – Ukraine should ensure an effective investigation into alleged abuse by Ukrainian fighters of Russian prisoners of war (POWs), Human Rights Watch said today. If confirmed, the beating and...
View ArticleChina: Free Uyghur Scholar’s Students
Click to expand Image Ilham Tohti's students, from upper left: Mutellip Imin, Perhat Halmurat, Atikem Rozi; lower left: Shohret Nijat, Akbar Imin, Luo Yuwei. © 2022 Private (New York) – The Chinese...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Spate of Criminal Cases Against Journalists
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) – Kyrgyzstan authorities have stepped up the...
View ArticleTorture in Syrian Prisons is Not a Joke
Click to expand Image Syrian women hold banners outside the court in Koblenz, Germany, after it convicted a former Syrian secret police officer of crimes against humanity for having overseen abuse of...
View ArticlePolish Activists Arrested for Saving Lives
Click to expand Image Two women and a child huddle in sleeping bags on the forest floor after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border near Michalowo on October 6, 2021. © 2021 Maciej...
View ArticleNo ‘Beautiful Game’ Without Rights in Qatar
On March 31, as FIFA convened its 72nd Congress in Doha, one speaker took a brave stance on the uncomfortable truth about human rights in Qatar.Lise Klaveness, the Norwegian Football Association...
View ArticleUkraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas
Click to expand Image Destroyed Russian armored vehicles in the city of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. © 2022 ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images (Warsaw) – Human Rights Watch has...
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