Egypt: Release Prison Population Figures
Click to expand Image Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entrances of Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, August 2, 2015. © 2015 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File (Beirut) – The Egyptian...
View ArticleTrinidad and Tobago: Bring Home Nationals from Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image A Trinidadian boy, then 16, looks out a window in the Houry detention center in northeast Syria on June 18, 2019. He was one of eight family members brought to Syria by his...
View ArticleBiden ‘Asylum Ban’ Rule Would Send Thousands to Danger
Click to expand Image An asylum seeker in Tijuana, Mexico, tries to use the new US Customs and Border Protection mobile app CBP One, January 18, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images US President Joe Biden...
View ArticleDon’t Rush to Normalize Relations with Assad’s Syria
Click to expand Image Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, third right, meets with a delegation representing various Arab parliaments in Damascus, February 26, 2023. © 2023 Syrian Presidency via...
View ArticleCan the G20 Agree on Human Rights?
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at an East Asia Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Cambodia, August 5, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleIndian Government Moves to Remedy Its Violation of Children’s Privacy
Click to expand Image Children study online using borrowed mobile phones in Mumbai, India, during school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. October 16, 2020. © 2020 Ashish Vaishnav/Sipa via AP...
View ArticleNew Frontex Director Offers Chance for Reform
Click to expand Image New Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard (FRONTEX) Hans Leijtens attends a press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on January 19, 2023....
View ArticleInsulin Manufacturer to Finally Lower Prices in the US
Click to expand Image Eli Lilly insulin, Humalog, September 13, 2019. © 2019 Simon Dawson/Reuters Following years of pressure, United States-based drug manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company announced...
View ArticleUnprotected by Labor Law, Child Farmworkers Risk Health and Lives
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A devastating new investigation by the New York Times found migrant children across the...
View ArticleGeorgia: Reconsider Mikheil Saakashvili’s Release on Medical Grounds
Click to expand Image Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili seen via video link from a clinic during a court hearing to consider his request to defer his six-year sentence for health...
View ArticleCluster Munitions: Nigeria Ratifies Global Ban
Click to expand Image The remnants of a 9M27K-series cluster munition rocket after it deployed its submunitions in the Maram camp for the displaced near the village of Kafr Jales in the Idlib...
View ArticleAngola: Hundreds Homeless in Forced Evictions, Demolitions
Click to expand Image A woman carries her child after their house was demolished in Zango 3 area of Luanda, Angola. © 2023 Private (Johannesburg) – The Angolan authorities should immediately suspend...
View ArticleDR Congo/France: Prioritize Rights Issues for Macron’s Visit
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi at the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, November 12, 2019. © 2019 Christian Liewig/Abaca/Sipa USA via...
View ArticleUN Describes Worsening Afghanistan Rights Crisis
Click to expand Image A woman at the site of a suicide attack on an education center claimed by a group affiliated with the Islamic State, in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 1, 2022. © 2022 Ebrahim...
View ArticleIranian Media Reports Hundreds of Schoolgirls Poisoned
Click to expand Image Students attend class in Tehran, Iran, November 22, 2021. © 2021 Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Iran’s reformist Etemad news agency reported on March 1 that over the...
View ArticleNew York Taxpayers Foot Bill for Abusive Police
Click to expand Image New York City police detain a legal observer during a peaceful protest in Mott Haven on June 4, 2020. © 2020 C.S. Muncy In an agreement made public yesterday, New York City will...
View ArticleKilling of Indigenous Leader in Ecuador Demands Thorough Investigation
Click to expand Image Eduardo Mendúa Facebook: Eduardo Mendúa Eduardo Mendúa, an A’i Cofán Indigenous leader, was shot dead on February 26 outside his home in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mendúa was an...
View ArticleCambodia: Opposition Leader Convicted on Bogus Charges
Click to expand Image Cambodia’s opposition leader Kem Sokha talks to the media at his home before leaving for a court hearing in Phnom Penh, January 16, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleDigital Dehumanization Paves Way for Killer Robots
Last month, members of the Stop Killer Robots campaign met in Costa Rica with 68 campaigners from 29 countries for their first in-person global conference since the Covid-19 pandemic. A central theme...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Judy Heumann
(New York) – Human Rights Watch mourns the passing of the pioneering disability rights activist Judy Heumann, a dear friend and board member. Heumann’s lifelong activism supporting the rights of people...
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