US Lawmakers Tackle Transnational Repression
Click to expand Image The dome of the US Capitol seen through a glass ceiling in Washington, DC, April 29, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades On March 16, a bipartisan group of United States...
View ArticleOne Year On, the Taliban Still Attacking Girls’ Right to Education
Click to expand Image A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi Tomorrow, the start of the school year in...
View ArticleTirana Hassan to Lead Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Tirana Hassan, a lawyer and veteran human rights investigator who has documented human rights abuses throughout crises and conflicts globally, has been named the next executive director of...
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges against Human Rights Activist
Click to expand Image Truong Van Dung holds a sign that says, Request the Immediate Release of Nguyen Thuy Hanh. © 2021 Truong Van Dung On March 28, 2023, a court in Hanoi sentenced Truong Van Dung...
View ArticleEU: Stronger Rules Needed for Political Ads
Click to expand Image A person looks at the apps on their phone. © 2020 Yui Mok/PA Wire (Brussels, March 28, 2023) – A European Union regulation under consideration will improve public scrutiny of...
View ArticleExile or Prison: Egypt’s Offer To Critics Abroad
Click to expand Image Protesters hold banners and chant slogans during Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s official visit to Germany on July 18, 2022, in Berlin. © 2022 Omer Messinger/Getty...
View ArticleUN Experts Find War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity in Libya
Click to expand Image Members of Brigade 444, an armed group linked with the Tripoli Army Chief of Staff, patrol streets of Salaheddin in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, September 4, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleFrench MPs Approve Controversial Surveillance Tech Under Olympics Pretext
Click to expand Image The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza in Paris, France, on September 14, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Michel Euler, File Yesterday, the French National Assembly adopted a...
View ArticlePakistan: Prisoners Deprived of Adequate Health Care
Click to expand Image People exit the main entrance of the Karachi Central Prison in Karachi, Pakistan, January 28, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Fareed Khan Pakistani authorities have systematically deprived...
View ArticleJapan to Hold Retrial for Decades-Old Death Sentence
Click to expand Image A court in Japan will hold a retrial in the case of Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer who was sentenced to death in 1968 for the 1966 murder of a family of four. He was...
View ArticleWNBA Stars Condemn Sex Abuse of Mali Players
(Nyon, Switzerland) – As March Madness plays out, star US women basketball players have spoken out to condemn sexual abuse of teenage athletes in Mali to spotlight the need for urgent action and...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: TV News Broadcasts Suspended
Click to expand Image A television shows the cut signal of the France 24 channel, hours after Burkina Faso’s military government suspended the channel on March 27, 2023. © 2023 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP...
View ArticleUN General Assembly Seeks World Court Ruling on Climate Change
Click to expand Image Vanuatu's Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau speaks prior to a vote on a resolution aimed at fighting global warming, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, March 29,...
View ArticleSri Lanka: IMF Loan Risks Eroding Rights
Click to expand Image Vendors wait for customers at the Peliyagoda Wholesale Market, Sri Lanka, March 23, 2023. © 2023 Pradeep Dambarage/NurPhoto via AP (Washington, DC) – The government of Sri Lanka...
View ArticleZambia: Repeal Law That Restricts Civil Society
Click to expand Image Activist Laura Miti holds a placard during a protest against corruption outside the Zambian parliament in Lusaka on September 28, 2018. © 2018 SALIM DAWOOD/AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleUS: Texas Attack on Migrants Reaches New Extremes
Click to expand Image Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference concerning border security along the Texas border with Mexico on February 21, 2023, in Weslaco, Texas. © 2023 Joel...
View ArticleNew Nepal Police Chief Has Questions to Answer on Torture
Click to expand Image Nepalese youth clash with police as they protest outside Federal Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 14, 2021. © 2021 Rojan Shrestha/NurPhoto via AP Photo The Nepal...
View ArticleUkraine: International Justice Response
Click to expand Image A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron and Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleTaliban Expand Civil Society Crackdown
Click to expand Image Mortaza Behboudi. © Private Mortaza Behboudi arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 5, intending to do what journalists do – cover the story. Instead, the French-Afghan dual...
View ArticleTanzania Undermines Right to Health of Maasai Community
Click to expand Image Maasai people walk past the health facility in Msomera village, Handeni, Tanzania, on July 15, 2022. © 2022 AFP/Getty Images As United States Vice President Kamala Harris visits...
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