DR Congo: Atrocities by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
Click to expand Image People displaced by fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese government forces gather north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 25, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleNigeria: Impunity, Insecurity Threaten Elections
Click to expand Image Women cast their ballots as they vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections on February 23, 2019, at a polling station in Daura, Katsina State, northwest Nigeria. ©...
View ArticleUN Message to Ghana on Mental Health Care
Click to expand Image Two men with a real or perceived mental health condition held by a chain around their ankle at Mount Horeb Prayer Centre in the Eastern Region in Ghana. © 2022 Shantha Rau...
View ArticleHouthis Violating Women’s and Girls' Rights in Yemen
Click to expand Image A Yemeni woman shops at a market in Yemen's third city of Taiz, on December 15, 2022. © 2022 Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images Several United Nations human rights experts...
View ArticlePakistan: IMF Bailout Should Advance Economic Rights
Click to expand Image A produce vendor waits for customers at a market in Islamabad, Pakistan, on January 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File. (New York) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
View ArticleAfghan Professor Jailed After Protesting Restrictions on Women
Click to expand Image Ismail Mashal, a journalism professor, speaks during an interview with AFP in Kabul on December 30, 2022. © 2022 AFP via Getty Images February 2 marked 500 days since the Taliban...
View ArticleFrance’s Anti-Racism Action Plan Ignores Institutional Racism
Click to expand Image French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne presents the National Plan against racism, anti-semitism and ethnic discrimination for 2023-2026, at the Arab World Institute in Paris on...
View ArticleGaza: Sisters at Risk After Return to Father
Click to expand Image Wissam al-Tawil, 23, and Fatma al-Tawil, 19. © Private (Gaza) – Gaza authorities should urgently ensure the safety and freedom of two adult sisters reported to be in forced...
View ArticleLebanon Rejects Civil Marriages, Puts Children at Risk
Click to expand Image Khalil Rizkallah and Nada Nehme during their online civil marriage ceremony in Lebanon, November 2021. © 2021 Khalil Rizkallah Couples in Lebanon who married in online civil...
View ArticleIndian Courts Provide Government a Pathway on Rights
Click to expand Image Police and demonstrators scuffle during a protest against discriminatory citizenship laws outside Jamia University in Delhi, February 10, 2020. © 2020 Manish Rajput/SOPA Images...
View ArticleRussia Legalizes Massive DNA Collection Without Oversight
Click to expand Image DNA sample is pipetted into a Petri dish, January 20, 2020. © 2020 Klaus Ohlenschläger/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law extending...
View ArticleTime to Tackle Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Toxic Air
Click to expand Image Air pollution in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 2, 2023. © 2023 Emina Cerimovic/ Human Rights Watch Air pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s cities remains some of...
View ArticleAlgeria: Reverse Decision to Dissolve Leading Human Rights Group
Click to expand Image A demonstration in Algiers, Algeria, on March 30, 2021. © 2021 Louiza Ammi/Abaca/Sipa USA (Beirut) – Algerian authorities should reverse the decision to dissolve the Algerian...
View Article20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival
Click to expand Image Still from the film UÝRA: THE RISING FOREST © (Toronto, February 8, 2023) - The Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema will be...
View ArticleAlready Complicit in Libya Migrant Abuse, EU Doubles Down on Support
Click to expand Image Neighbourhood and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi, and Antonio Tajani, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs of Italy, at the official handover ceremony of the first...
View ArticleAlgeria Shuts Down Its Flagship Rights Group
Shortly after I started my first human rights job in 1986, Amnesty International issued an alert about a group of Algerians sentenced to up to three years in prison for creating the country’s first...
View ArticleDenmark, Sweden Offer Protection to All Women, Girls from Afghanistan
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman carries a child as she disembarks at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, from an SAS aircraft transporting evacuees from Afghanistan on August 22, 2021. © 2021 Mads...
View ArticleUS: Florida Judges Block Youth Abortion Access
Click to expand Image © 2023 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch (Miami) – Judges in the US state of Florida often deny people under age 18 their right to access abortion care, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleEritrea: Crackdown on Draft Evaders’ Families
Click to expand Image Young Eritreans return from a military training academy on August 18, 2019 in Elabered, Eritrea. © 2019 Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleHungary Court Closes Door on Transgender Legal Recognition
Click to expand Image An activist waves the transgender flag during a protest at the Presidential Palace in Budapest, Hungary, June 16, 2021. © 2021 Bernadette Szabo/AP Photo In the latest blow to...
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