Respect Rights in Monkeypox Response
Click to expand Image A nurse holds one of the tests for monkeypox at the Hospital Ramón y Cajal, May 30, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. © 2022 Carlos Luján/Europa Press via AP (New York) – Governments...
View ArticleEuropean Union: Prioritize Rights in Egypt Meetings
Click to expand Image EU foreign affairs high representative Josep Borrell (L) meets with Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, July 13, 2021. © 2021 Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brussels)...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Maintain Scrutiny on Sudan
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 ArticleEU Should Press Ethiopia for Tangible Rights Progress
Click to expand Image Ethiopians wait for food distribution in a small town north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 7, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ben Curtis © 2021 AP Photo/Ben...
View ArticleChina: US Law Against Uyghur Forced Labor Takes Effect
Click to expand Image In this aerial photo, workers walk alongside a tractor during planting of a cotton field, amid a government-organized trip for foreign journalists, near Urumqi in northwestern...
View ArticleMexico: Barriers for Trans People in Guanajuato State
Click to expand Image A plenary session of the Congress of Guanajuato on June 9, 2022 in Guanajuato City, Mexico. © 2022 Congreso del Estado Guanajuato (León) – Trans people in the Mexican state of...
View ArticleLandmines: US Moves Closer Toward Global Ban
Click to expand Image A landmine survivor wearing a prosthetic leg at an event to commemorate the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action in Bogotá, Colombia, April 4, 2022....
View ArticleTajikistan: Release Bloggers, Respect Media Freedom
Click to expand Image Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon attends a meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan September 16,...
View ArticleSudan: New Deadly Attacks in West Darfur
Click to expand Image The aftermath of an attack on the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan Saturday, July 25, 2020. © 2020 Mustafa Younes via AP (Nairobi) – New attacks by armed Arab assailants...
View ArticleCambodia: Quash Convictions of ‘ADHOC 5’
Click to expand Image © 2018 ADHOC (Bangkok) – The Cambodian authorities should quash the baseless criminal convictions of four members and one former member of the Cambodian Human Rights and...
View ArticleIn Ukraine, Women Should Be Protected from Violence in War and Peace
Click to expand Image A woman carries flowers and a placard that says "At the funeral of the patriarchy" during the feminist's Women March on International Women's Day 2021 in Kyiv, during which...
View ArticleZambia: Hope for Kabwe Lead Poisoning Victims
Click to expand Image Three girls play the game isolo on the ground in the lead-affected township of Waya in Kabwe. Soil is the main source of lead exposure in Kabwe. © 2018 Zama Neff/Human Rights...
View ArticleAustralia: Climate Protesters’ Rights Violated
Click to expand Image (Left) Violet Coco, 31, spent 21 days under what amounted to house arrest and is under a curfew from 3 p.m.- 10 a.m. (Middle) Andrew George, 33, was sentenced to three months in...
View ArticleLGBTI Activists in Ghana Sue Over Abusive Arrest and Detention
Click to expand Image A young lesbian woman at an LGBT community center in Accra, Ghana. © 2017 Human Rights Watch Last week, a group of Ghanaian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...
View ArticleThe UK Government’s Bill of Wrongs
Click to expand Image UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, speaks during a cabinet meeting with at 10 Downing Street, London, May 24, 2022. © 2022 Daniel Leal/Pool via AP The UK government has...
View ArticleHorror Behind Closed Doors of Polish Residential Institution
Click to expand Image Women hold banners during a Supermothers Day protest in Warsaw on May 26, 2018. © 2018 Luczniewski/NurPhoto via Getty Images “My child’s nightmare lasted around a year and a...
View ArticleUS States Should Protect Youth Abortion Access
Click to expand Image Protesters rally in support of abortion rights outside the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas on May 14, 2022. © 2022 Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP As people...
View ArticleA Suffocating Environment for Greek Civil Society
Click to expand Image Supporters of activists from a migrant search-and-rescue group, who are facing espionage and other felony charges, gather outside a court before their trial in Mytilene port, on...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Topples Roe v. Wade in a Blow to Rights
Click to expand Image Abortion rights activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana In a predicted but...
View ArticleCrackdown in Russia Requires Dedicated UN Monitoring
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a demonstrator holding a poster reading "Hands off Memorial, freedom for political prisoners" in front of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in...
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