Dutch Decision Helps Protect EU’s Syrian Asylum Seekers
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View ArticleBeijing Eats Bitter Fruit of its Own Propaganda
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View ArticleAfghanistan: Economic Crisis Underlies Mass Hunger
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View ArticleBurundi Leader Lashes Out at Rights Groups
Click to expand Image Révérien Ndikuriyo on the day of his election as secretary general of Burundi's ruling party in Gitega on January 24, 2021. © 2021 Private The head of Burundi’s ruling...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s Economic Crisis and the IMF
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan anti-government protesters call for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 29, 2022. © 2022 Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via AP Sri...
View ArticleUS: Dismantle Structures of Racism Now
Click to expand Image Protesters at a rally in Minneapolis call for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial ended on April 19, 2021. © 2021 Jason Armond / Los...
View ArticleDR Congo: Blinken Visit Tests US Support for Democracy, Rights
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with African ministers at United Nations headquarters, May 18, 2022. © 2022 Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP (Washington, DC) – United...
View ArticleRwanda: Human Rights Should Be Priority on Blinken Trip
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View ArticleJapan: Press Cambodia to End Trade Union Crackdown
Click to expand Image Cambodian authorities force NagaWorld strikers onto city buses to remove them from picket lines near the NagaWorld Casino in Phnom Penh, February 23, 2022. © 2022 CamboJA News...
View ArticleICC Issues Warrant for Central African Republic Rebel Leader
Click to expand Image Noureddine Adam, the chief of the FPRC, the main Central African armed group, poses in Birao, northern Central African Republic, on December 20, 2017. © 2017 ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP...
View ArticleRussia: New Bogus Charge Against Opposition Politician
Click to expand Image Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza in Moscow. © 2021 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin) – Russian authorities’ new spurious charge against opposition politician...
View ArticleFormer Haitian Sports Minister Arrested for Alleged Sexual Abuse
Click to expand Image Haiti’s former minister of sports, Evans Lescouflair, speaks at the Global Sports Forum in Barcelona, Spain, March 10, 2010. © 2010 AP Photo/ David Ramos Thanks to the courage of...
View ArticleMali: Rights Reforms Crucial for Civilian Rule
Click to expand Image Leaders attend ECOWAS summit to discuss transitional roadmap for Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea, in Accra, Ghana, July 3, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko (Nairobi) Mali’s...
View ArticleNigeria: Insecurity Grips Nation’s Capital
Click to expand Image A burned-out bus outside Kuje prison following a jail break, Kuje, Nigeria, July 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu (Abuja) A series of attacks and threats within close...
View ArticleSri Lanka: New President Should Chart Path Upholding Rights
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe, Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 3, 2022. © AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena (New York) – Sri Lanka’s new president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, should...
View ArticlePhilippine Activist Arrested for Cyber-libel
Philippine police on Monday arrested Walden Bello, a 76-year-old social activist, academic, and former congressman, at his home in Quezon City on charges of cyber-libel. The arrest was based on...
View ArticleBrazil: Indigenous Rights Under Serious Threat
Click to expand Image Children in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, located in the Brazilian states of Roraima and Amazonas, in June 2021. © Gabriel Chaim (São Paulo) – The Brazilian government has...
View ArticleMalaysia: State-Backed Discrimination Harms LGBT People
Click to expand Image An illustration depicts queer people in Malaysia, who face widespread societal pressure to change their sexual orientation or gender identity. © 2020 Row Yow (Kuala Lumpur) –...
View ArticleMyanmar: Japan-Trained General Linked to Abusive Forces
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View ArticleMaldives: Arrests for Gay Sex Politically Motivated
Click to expand Image Maldives' commissioner of police Mohamed Hameed addresses a press conference on the blast that targeted former president and current parliament speaker Mohamed Nasheed in Male,...
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