Nepal President Blocks Citizenship Law
Click to expand Image Student activists protest against President Bidya Bhandari’s unwillingness to endorse the Citizenship Bill that was passed by parliament. September 21, 2022 © 2022 Rojan...
View ArticleHungary Should Guarantee Safety of Lesbian Activists During DykeMarch
Click to expand Image Rising anger over policies of Hungary's right-wing government filled the streets of the country's capital as thousands of LGBT activists and supporters marched in the city's...
View ArticleJapan Should Strengthen New Business and Human Rights Guidelines
Click to expand Image Shipping cranes on a wharf inside the Tokyo Bay. © 2022 Sipa USA via AP Japan’s recently adopted guidelines on responsible use of supply chains are a missed opportunity to...
View ArticleUS: Budget Cuts Put Public Housing Tenants at Risk
Click to expand Image Ramona Ferreyra looks out at the public housing development where she lives in the Bronx borough of New York. January 28, 2022. © 2022 Human Rights Watch (New York) – Decades of...
View ArticleBelarusian Authorities Further Tighten Chokehold on Civil Society
Click to expand Image Solidarity action with Viasna’s imprisoned human rights defenders in Warsaw, Poland, September 2021. © 2021 Human Rights Center “Viasna” This week, prominent Belarusian human...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Revoke Sweeping New Order to Restrict Protest
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan police disperse protesters in Colombo with tear gas and a water cannon, September 24, 2022. © 2022 Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – The Sri Lankan...
View ArticleThe New Italian Government Poses A Human Rights Challenge
Click to expand Image Election posters of Fratelli d'Italia, Lega con Salvini and Forza Italia are seen on the streets ahead of election day in Rome, Italy, on September 16, 2022. © 2022 Elisa...
View ArticleBrazil: Uphold the Right to Vote Freely and Safely
Click to expand Image A protester holds a sign reading “Democracy” in Portuguese and in Braille at a rally in in São Paulo, August 11, 2022. © 2022 Ettore Chiereguini/AGIF (via AP) (São Paulo) –...
View ArticleTrial of Rwanda Genocide Suspect Begins in The Hague
Click to expand Image Félicien Kabuga during his Initial Appearance at The Hague on November 11, 2020. © 2020 Leslie Hondebrink-Hermer/UN-IRMCT The trial of Félicien Kabuga, for crimes committed...
View ArticleEU: Denounce Israel’s Apartheid at Association Council Meeting
Click to expand Image Yair Lapid, then Israeli foreign minister and current prime minister, speaks with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell during a July...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Rules Australia Failed to Protect from Climate Change
Click to expand Image A woman walks past palm trees on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, August 9, 2006. © 2006 Andrew Mears/Fairfax Media via Getty Images The United Nations Human Rights Committee...
View ArticleFictitious Annexation Follows 'Voting' at Gunpoint
Click to expand Image A Russian officer guards a polling station in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine, which is occupied by Russia, Tuesday, Sept 27, 2022 © 2022 AP Photo Vladimir Putin has just signed a...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Conflict Leaves Children without Education
Click to expand Image Children evacuated from their villages after recent clashes on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, are seen in a school which has been turned into a temporary shelter, in the town of...
View ArticleNigeria Agrees to End Military Detention of Children
Click to expand Image Children released from military detention in Nigeria in July 2018. © UNICEF/UN038572/Naftalin In 2019, a colleague and I interviewed dozens of children in northeast Nigeria who...
View ArticleGuinea Stadium Trial to Resume
Click to expand Image Victims and their families of crimes committed during Guinea’s 2009 stadium massacre line up to enter a courthouse in Conakry, Guinea on September 28, 2022 the first day of the...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Debate Xinjiang Report
Click to expand Image Police officers stand at the outer entrance of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 2021. © 2021 Mark...
View ArticleHonduras: Select Supreme Court Based on Merit
Click to expand Image A February 2022 agreement allowed Luis Redondo, an ally of President Xiomara Castro, to lead the Honduran Congress. © 2022 REUTERS/Fredy Rodriguez (Washington, DC) – Honduras...
View ArticleLiberia: US War Crimes Ambassador’s Visit
Click to expand Image (Monrovia) – The United States government should stand with victims of civil wars-era crimes in Liberia by signaling its support for a war crimes court to deliver justice and to...
View ArticleUkraine: Three Men’s Bodies Found in Forest
Click to expand Image Russian-affiliated forces detained and tortured men in a cellar behind these houses that they occupied during March and April in Kapytolivka village, Kharkiv region. September...
View ArticlePhilippines: UN Rights Body Fails to Act
Click to expand Image Families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the "war on drugs" display portraits of their slain relatives and call on the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the...
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