Qatar/FIFA: Address Demands of Migrant Worker Strikes
Click to expand Image Former short-term visa holders who had signed 2-year employment contracts but were sent back to Nepal within months. They had paid upward of US$1,138 as recruitment fees. © 2022...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Resistance Means Women
Click to expand Image Afghan women display placards and chant slogans a day after a suicide bomb attack at Dasht-e-Barchi learning center, in Kabul on October 1, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images The...
View ArticleUS: Public Housing Eviction Concerns in New Mexico
Click to expand Image Roger Chavez stands outside of the garden he made beside his home, which he dedicated to his son who passed away in a car accident. © 2022 Human Rights Watch (Washington) –...
View ArticleIn Iran, Schoolgirls Leading Protests for Freedom
Click to expand Image Iranian schoolgirls stand without their mandatory hijabs, singing what has come to be the anthem of the Iran protests, Shervin Hajipour’s song “Baraye”. Source:...
View ArticleUS, French Politicians Urge FIFA to Remedy Migrant Worker Abuses in Qatar
Click to expand Image Workers walk to the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar, December 2019. © 2019 Hassan Ammar/AP Photo US Representative Jan Schakowsky alongside...
View ArticleUS Should Prioritize Rights in its Relationship with Uganda
Click to expand Image US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, left, and Natalie E. Brown, US Ambassador to Uganda, speaking to the media at the residence of the US Ambassador to...
View ArticleThe Right to Housing is on the Ballot in Los Angeles
Click to expand Image An encampment on Beaudry Avenue along Interstate 110 in downtown Los Angeles, May 2020. © 2020 Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo This November, voters in the United States city of Los...
View ArticleGlobal Scrutiny of China Abuses Within Reach
Click to expand Image Chinese Ambassador Chen Xu speaking during the vote on the Human Rights Council decision, Geneva, October 6, 2022. © 2022 UN Human Rights Council Last week’s narrow vote at the...
View ArticleSomalia: Free Detained Journalist
Click to expand Image Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, secretary general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate, speaks at a press conference along with other members from the Somali Media Association and the...
View ArticleTurkey: Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments
Click to expand Image Opposition Republican People's Party deputies hold signs in protest of a government-backed bill that criminalizes "disinformation," at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in...
View ArticleVideo Shows Azerbaijan Forces Executing Armenian POWs
Click to expand Image Smoke plumes and burn scars emerging around the Mets Ishkhanasar Mountain, as of September 13 2022, 09:19 am CET (11:19 am local time) . Satellite image © 2022 Planet Labs PBC....
View ArticleHonduras Should Commit to Protecting Women’s and Girls’ Rights
Click to expand Image Women participate in a march in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, for International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019. Some wear green handkerchiefs, a symbol of the abortion...
View ArticleWanted Ex-Intelligence Chief Returns to Congo
Click to expand Image Kalev Mutond, former director of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Intelligence Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements). Last week Kalev Mutond, the former director...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Rights Setbacks for People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image A student with a white cane arrives at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2, 2012. © 2012 Omar Sobhani/Reuters Afghanistan started celebrating White Cane Safety Day in...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Don’t Deport Activists to Uzbekistan
Click to expand Image President Kassymjomar Tokayev of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyev sign a bilateral agreement in Tashkent on April 15, 2019. © 2019 Uzbekistani...
View ArticleWorld Food Day Amid a Global Food Crisis
Click to expand Image Afghan workers prepare food supplies during a humanitarian aid campaign in Kabul, February 16, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Hussein Malla Today is World Food Day, commemorating the...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Draft ‘Rehabilitation’ Law Would Spur Abuse
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe visits the Army Headquarters in Colombo, August 9, 2022. © 2022 Ruwan Walpola/Pacific Press/Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The Sri...
View ArticleThe EU Continues to Acquiesce to Greece Border Abuses
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather in front of the Greek parliament in Athens during a protest against violence at the Greek-Turkish border on February 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Yorgos...
View ArticleFire, Explosions Erupt at Evin Prison in Tehran
Click to expand Image A photo obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows damage caused by a fire in the notorious Evin prison, northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. ©...
View ArticleFIFA Yet to Back Workers’ Remedy Fund Despite Growing Support
Click to expand Image Workers outside Al Janoub Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar (New York) – FIFA has yet to officially...
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