Yemen: Act to Avert Humanitarian Catastrophe
Click to expand Image Idle cargo and oil tanker ships at the port of Hodeida, Yemen. © 2018 AP Photo/Hani Mohammed (Beirut) – Governments should immediately support a salvage operation to prevent a...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Transgender People Denied Equal Rights
(New York) – Transgender people in El Salvador experience significant discrimination in daily life because there is no procedure for legal gender recognition, Human Rights Watch and COMCAVIS TRANS said...
View ArticleThe Hand at the Helm of Frontex
Click to expand Image A Portuguese vessel in a Frontex operation in Lesbos, Greece, 2016. © 2016 Frontex For too long, the European Union external borders agency, Frontex, has operated as though...
View ArticleMyanmar: TotalEnergies Withdraws; Junta Gains
Click to expand Image (Paris) – Myanmar’s abusive junta will obtain an increased stake in the country’s largest oil and gas field when the French company TotalEnergies withdraws from Myanmar on July...
View ArticleThailand: Free Detained Critics of Monarchy
Click to expand Image Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom (left) and Nutthanit “Bai Por” Duangmusit, Thai pro-democracy activists, have been on a hunger strike since June 2, 2022 to protest their pre-trial...
View ArticleNicaragua: Government Dismantles Civil Society
Click to expand Image On May 31, 2022, Nicaragua's national assembly canceled the registration of 82 non-governmental organizations as well as the country's language academy, accusing them of having...
View ArticleBelarusian Journalist’s Sentencing Indicates New Levels of Repression
Click to expand Image Journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva is seen reporting for Poland-based media outlet Belsat TV, in Minsk, Belarus, August 2020. © 2020 Private Last week, a court in Homieĺ, Belarus,...
View ArticleMorocco: Uyghur Activist at Risk of Extradition
(Tunis) – One year after his arrest at Casablanca airport, Yidiresi Aishan, also known as Idris Hasan, a Uyghur activist, remains under threat of extradition from Morocco to China, where there are...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Lacks Tenacity on the Rule of Law
Click to expand Image European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. © 2015 Reuters The European Commission annual Rule of Law Report,...
View ArticleUN Reports on Taliban Repression, Abuse in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image A Taliban special forces soldier stands guard in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 18, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi A new report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in...
View ArticleProtecting People from Extreme Heat
Click to expand Image A man shields himself from the sun during a heat wave in New Delhi, India, June 12, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images (New York) – Governments around the world should act to...
View ArticleRussian, Ukrainian Bases Endangering Civilians
Click to expand Image An abandoned Russian armored vehicle parked next to a home in Yahidne village, April 17, 2022. © 2022 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch (Kyiv, July 21, 2022) – Russian and...
View Article46 Congressmembers Urge US to Protect Child Farmworkers
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. July 2013. © 2013 Human Rights Watch This week, 46 members of the United States House of Representatives urged Labor...
View ArticleIndonesian Women Speak Out on Dress Codes
Click to expand Image Protesters hold posters on various topics, including opposing mandatory hijab requirements for girls in state schools, during the Women’s March in Jakarta, March 2020. © 2020...
View ArticleCanada: British Columbia to End Immigration Detention in Jails
Click to expand Image Win! British Columbia becomes first Canadian province to end immigration detention in its jails. © Human Rights Watch (British Columbia) – In a historic move, British Columbia’s...
View ArticleObserving Disability Pride Month this July
Click to expand Image New York City celebrates the third annual Disability Pride Parade on July 9, 2017. © 2017 Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images I only recently learned that July is...
View ArticleUkraine: Torture, Disappearances in Occupied South
Click to expand Image Russian servicemen on the roadside in Kherson region, Ukraine. © 2022 Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images (Kyiv) – Russian forces have tortured, unlawfully detained, and forcibly...
View ArticleUK: Tackling Violence against Some Women, But Not All
Click to expand Image Women hold placards at the Million Women Rise march in London ahead of International Women's Day on March 05, 2022. © 2022/ NurPhoto via AP/WIktor Szymanowicz (London) – The...
View ArticlePhilippines: Marcos Should Focus on Rights Issues
Click to expand Image President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the Presidential Security Group Change of Command ceremony on July 4, 2022, in Manila, Philippines. © AP Photo/Aaron Favila (Manila) –...
View ArticleSouth Korea Investigates Forcible Return of Two North Koreans
Click to expand Image A North Korean fisherman is repatriated from South Korea via Panmunjom in 2019. © 2019 Office of Jun Joo-hyae/Ministry of Unification Several weeks ago, prosecutors in South...
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