UK Plan to Ship Asylum Seekers to Rwanda is Cruelty Itself
Click to expand Image British Home Secretary Priti Patel (L), and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta sign an agreement at the Kigali Convention Center in...
View ArticleUS Will Protect Cameroonians from Dangerous Deportations
Click to expand Image Protesters in Washington, DC, call for a halt to deportations to Cameroon; for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroonians in the US; for the release of Cameroonians from...
View ArticleYemen: Latest Round of Saudi-UAE-Led Attacks Targets Civilians
Click to expand Image Rescue members remove rubble covering victims of aerial attacks carried out by the Saudi and UAE-led coalition that targeted a detention facility in the Houthi strong-hold Saada...
View ArticleUS: Public Housing Cutbacks Jeopardize Low-Income People
Click to expand Image Work permits are displayed in front of the New York City Housing Authority's Ocean Bay Apartments Bayside complex during renovations, part of the US Housing and Urban Development...
View ArticleBrazil: Invite UN Experts on Racial Justice
Click to expand Image Activists hold a sign that reads in Portuguese "Justice for Jacarezinho. End massacres in favelas" during a protest a day after police killed 27 people during an operation in...
View ArticleMorocco: Drop Charges Against Activist
Click to expand Image Rabie al-Ablaq © Private (Washington) – Moroccan authorities should drop charges against a social media commentator who risks up to four years in prison on a charge of...
View ArticleAlgeria: Jailed Activist Ends Hunger Strike
Click to expand Image Merzoug Touati © 2021 Facebook (Beirut) – An unjustly imprisoned Algerian blogger and activist ended the hunger strike he had begun three weeks ago to protest both his detention...
View ArticleChina: Credibility of UN Human Rights Chief’s Visit at Risk
Click to expand Image Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, November 3, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleHouthis Commit to End Violations Against Children in Yemen
Click to expand Image Child soldiers with Houthi fighters hold weapons during a demonstration in Sanaa on March 13, 2015. © 2015 Reuters Seven years into a catastrophic war in Yemen, the Houthis have...
View ArticleIndonesia Military Finally Ends Abusive ‘Virginity Test’
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protesting so-called “virginity tests” and sexual violence in Indonesian schools and universities during the Women's March rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2020....
View ArticleRefugees in Europe Need Mental Health Support
Click to expand Image Ukrainians who have fled the war wait outside an NGO-run center that helps refugees with urgent placement and documents on March 23, 2022 in Paris, France. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Herat Women’s Prison Head Missing 6 Months
Click to expand Image Alia Azizi. © Private (New York) – The women’s prison director in Herat, Afghanistan has been missing since October 2021 and is feared to have been forcibly disappeared, Human...
View ArticleA Bleak Future with Education Under Attack in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 19, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi Afghanistan’s children are...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Police Fire on Protesters
Click to expand Image Sri Lankans hold up their mobile phone torches during a vigil outside the president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena via AP,...
View ArticleEgypt: Release Autopsy Report, Investigate Suspicious Death
Click to expand Image Ayman Hadhoud. © Private (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should urgently release the autopsy report and investigate the suspicious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud, Human Rights...
View ArticleConfiscating Palestinian Land for a Horse Farm
Click to expand Image A horse farm (center) operated by Israeli settlers from Shaarei Tikvah settlement (left) on Palestinian-owned land next to the separation barrier (right) in the Israeli-occupied...
View ArticleGermany Tries Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Gambia
Click to expand Image Members of the Gambian paramilitary group known as the Junglers. The Junglers have been implicated in serious human rights violations including torture, enforced disappearances,...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Forces’ Trail of Death in Bucha
Russian forces committed a litany of apparent war crimes during their occupation of Bucha, a town about 30 kilometers northwest of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, from March 4 to 31, 2022, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleHungarian Groups Fight Fines for Supporting LGBT Rights
Click to expand Image Ballot papers are seen during the general parliamentary elections in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2022. © 2022 Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images Last week, Hungary’s Supreme...
View ArticleUN: Make Reporting on Covid-19 in Prisons Mandatory
Click to expand Image An inmate (right) wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) is supervised by a guard as he distributes meals to prisoners confined to their cells as part of measures to curb...
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