Thousands of Refugee Students Cut off from Classes in Lebanon
Click to expand Image Chairs are placed on classroom tables at a closed public school in Beirut, Lebanon September 22, 2022. © 2022 Mohamed Azakir/Reuters Thousands of Syrian refugee students in...
View ArticleSouth Korea Court Recognizes Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Couple
Click to expand Image So Seong-wook (L) and Kim Yong-min attend a news conference after filing a lawsuit against South Korea’s National Health Insurance Service for dependent family status, in Seoul...
View ArticleIraq: Environmentalists Face Retaliation
Click to expand Image Jassim al-Asadi. © 2023 Private (Beirut) – Iraq’s environmental activists are facing threats, harassment, and arbitrary detention by government officials and armed groups, Human...
View ArticleEl Salvador Fails to Meet Deadline for Trans Rights Ruling
Click to expand Image © 2022 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (New York) – El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has brazenly ignored the one-year deadline that the Supreme Court gave it to create a...
View ArticleMexico Needs to Change Its Disabling Legal System
Click to expand Image Lawmakers meet for a plenary session at the Chihuahua state congress, Chihuahua City, Mexico. © 2023 Congreso del Estado de Chihuahua by Claudia Diaz, Intern, Disability Rights...
View ArticleShamima Begum Ruling a Dark Stain on the UK Justice System
Click to expand Image Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard, London, England, February 22, 2015. © 2015 Laura...
View ArticleIndonesia: Free Anti-Mining Activist in Sulawesi
Click to expand Image Robison Saul shows bruises that he received from alleged mistreatment in Tahuna prison on Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi province, October 12, 2022. Saul said prison guards beat...
View ArticleTunisia: Wave of Arrests Targets Critics and Opposition Figures
Click to expand Image Kais Saied during the sworn ceremony in Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia on October 23, 2019. © 2019 Nicolas Fauque/Images de Tunisie/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images (Tunis) – Tunisian...
View ArticleJapan to ‘Appropriately Handle’ Project Benefiting Myanmar’s Military
Click to expand Image Myanmar people living in Japan protest against military rule in their country on the first anniversary of the coup, outside the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo,...
View ArticleProminence of Central Asian Countries on The Human Rights Council Is an...
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleSomalia: Revamp Intelligence Agency Bill
Click to expand Image Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks at his inauguration ceremony in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 9, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh (Nairobi) Somalia’s president...
View ArticleNepal: New Government Should Keep Rights Pledges
Click to expand Image Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal appears at parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, January 10, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha (New York) – Nepal’s new government led...
View ArticleTunisia: President Intensifies Attacks on Judicial Independence
Click to expand Image People enter the Tunis hall of justice, Friday May, 26, 2017. © 2017 Hassene Dridi/AP Images (Tunis) – Tunisian authorities should immediately reinstate judges and prosecutors...
View ArticleBeirut Blast Victims Are Still Reaching for Justice
Click to expand Image Lebanese activists and families of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port blast gather outside the Palace of Justice to protest a decision by Lebanon's top prosecutor to release the...
View ArticleGuatemala: Review Decision to Bar Presidential Candidates
Click to expand Image Supporters of the Liberation of the People (MLP) political party protest that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal denied the candidacy of their vice president hopeful Jordan Rodas in...
View ArticleNigeria’s Elections Remain Risky for Many Citizens
Click to expand Image Independent National Electoral Commission officials sort and count ballots at a polling station in Kano during Nigeria's presidential and general election, February 25, 2023. ©...
View ArticleAustralia: Protect Data from Foreign Interference
Click to expand Image Australian Parliament in Canberra at sunrise. © Kinson C Photography via Getty Images (Sydney, February 28, 2023) – The Australian government should take concrete steps to...
View ArticleSatire in Congo is No Laughing Matter
Click to expand Image Junior Nkole, January 8, 2023. © 2023 Private On February 10, government security agents arrested the satirical comedian Junior Nkole in central Kinshasa in the latest attack...
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Extends Martial Law
Click to expand Image Police block a road leading to City Hall as protesters approach on February 13, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. © 2021 Hkun Lat/Getty Images On February 22, Myanmar’s junta announced...
View ArticleBahrain: 3 On Trial for Religious Dialogue
(Beirut) – Three members of a cultural society in Bahrain are scheduled to go to trial on February 28, 2023, for merely exercising their right to free expression and belief, Human Rights Watch said...
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