Myanmar: ASEAN’s Failed ‘5-Point Consensus’ a Year On
Click to expand Image Activists protest the Myanmar military coup during an ASEAN summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2021. © 2021 Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Southeast Asian governments...
View ArticleVenezuela: Maduro Government Seeks to Delay ICC Investigation
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch (The Hague) – In light of the Venezuelan authorities’...
View ArticleIsrael: Release Long Detained Gaza Aid Worker
Click to expand Image Palestinian demonstrators hold posters of Mohammad al-Halabi, a humanitarian worker in Gaza who has been detained by Israel since June 2016 without being convicted of a crime,...
View ArticleMalaysia: End Secrecy on Major Land Deal in Sabah
Click to expand Image Danum Valley Conservation Area, State of Sabah, Borneo Island, Malaysia, August 5, 2019. © 2019 Emy/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images (Bangkok) – The Sabah state government in...
View ArticleFrance: Crucial Need for Macron to Focus on Rights
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech after his election victory in Paris, April 24, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – It is crucial for President Emmanuel...
View ArticleSouth Korean Court Limits Military ‘Sodomy’ Law
Click to expand Image The South Korean Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 21, 2022. © 2022 Chung Byung-hyuck/Newsis via AP In a victory for human rights in South Korea, the country’s Supreme...
View ArticleKenneth Roth to Step Down at Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Pierre Albouy (New York) – Human...
View ArticleUrgently Help Ukraine Civilians Flee Mariupol
Click to expand Image A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleJapan: Raise Rights on Southeast Asia Trip
Click to expand Image Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, April 8, 2022. © 2022 Rodrigo Reyes Marin, Pool...
View ArticlePakistan: Amend Abusive ‘Blood Money’ Laws
Click to expand Image Nazim Jhokio. © Private (New York) – The Pakistan government should amend provisions of the criminal law that treat murder and other serious offenses as private disputes, Human...
View ArticleTurkey: Life Sentence for Rights Defender Osman Kavala
Click to expand Image Osman Kavala © 2017 Private (Istanbul) – The conviction on April 25, 2022 of the human rights defender Osman Kavala and his seven co-defendants is a shocking miscarriage of...
View ArticleFirst German Trial on Crimes in Gambia Opens
Click to expand Image Victims and representatives from non-governmental organizations stand in front of the Celle Higher Regional Court in Celle, Germany. © 2022 Whitney-Martina Nosakhare/Human Rights...
View ArticleLibya: Landmines, Other War Hazards, Killing Civilians
Click to expand Image National Safety Authority members clear landmines and improvised explosive devices used during the armed conflict in Tripoli, Libya, June 3, 2020. © 2020 Hazem Turkia/Anadolu...
View ArticleUN: Support Impartial Justice for War Crimes in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Women watch as Ukrainian authorities exhume bodies from a mass grave as part of investigations into war crimes in Bucha. © Laurel Chor / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images (New...
View ArticleEgypt: Two Singers Convicted on ‘Morality’ Charges
Click to expand Image Youth dance to Mahraganat music at a wedding in Salam City, a suburb of Cairo, March 5, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy (Beirut) – An Egyptian court sentenced two singers...
View ArticleDress Restrictions Tighten for Afghanistan Girls’ Schools
Click to expand Image Girls attend a school assembly in Balkh province, Afghanistan, April 2022. © 2022 Private After taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban instituted a de facto ban on...
View ArticleJapan to Train New Cadets, Officers from Abusive Myanmar Military
Click to expand Image Myanmar military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo During the...
View ArticleUkraine/Russia: As War Continues, Africa Food Crisis Looms
Click to expand Image A man holds bread being sold at a high price in a supermarket at Ketu in Lagos, Nigeria on March 15, 2022. © 2022 PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Russia’s...
View ArticleEuropean Union: Rules for Batteries Should Cover Bauxite, Copper, Iron
Click to expand Image A man washes clothes next to a road used by a bauxite mining consortium in Guinea, West Africa. Local community members said that the construction of mining roads blocked rivers...
View ArticleSudan: Hundreds of Protesters Detained, Mistreated
Click to expand Image Main entrance of Soba prison in Khartoum, Sudan where scores of individuals have been detained in connection to the protests following the military coup. © 2022 Private (Nairobi)...
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