Burkina Faso Expels Two French Reporters
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 ArticleBetter Solutions Needed for Migrant Workers’ Makeshift Settlements in Italy
Click to expand Image “Informal settlement “La Pista” in Borgo Mezzanone, Puglia region, Italy, July 1, 2020. © 2020 Giorgia Orlandi, @giorgiaorlandi_ Tonight, thousands of migrant agricultural...
View ArticleNew ICC Vetting Process Begins for Judicial Candidates
Click to expand Image Judges of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Sem van der Wal/AP Images Next December, member countries...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Closing Civic Space
Click to expand Image Selection of Central African Republic newspapers, Bangui, January 2023 © 2023 Lewis Mudge/Human Rights Watch The government of the Central African Republic is cracking down on...
View ArticleTajikistan: Free Autonomous Region Rights Defender
(Berlin) – Tajik authorities should release Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov, a human rights defender and lawyer from the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan unfairly convicted in connection with...
View ArticleBrazilian Company Moves to Shield Students from Data Surveillance
Click to expand Image © Andrea Devia Nuño, Hero Studios Yesterday, Escola Mais, an educational Brazilian company, took steps to protect its students’ data privacy. The change comes after media...
View ArticleTurkey: Police and Gendarmerie Abuses in Earthquake Zone
Click to expand Image Two police officers watch removal of rubble from buildings that collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes, Hatay, Turkey, March 23, 2023. © 2023 Omer Urer/Anadolu Agency via Getty...
View ArticleIndia’s Hindu Festivals Bring Increasing Anti-Muslim Violence
Click to expand Image A mob set fire to Madrasa Azizia in Nalanda district of Bihar, India during the Ram Navami festival on March 31, 2023. © 2023 Meer Faisal/Maktoob The Hindu festival of Ram Navami...
View ArticleUAE Conference Attendees Warned against Criticizing Government
Click to expand Image Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2019. © 2019 Hamad Mohammed/Reuters Speakers at a recent climate and health summit in Abu Dhabi were advised by the conference...
View ArticleThailand: Upcoming Election Fundamentally Flawed
Click to expand Image Ethnic minority women make three-finger salutes during pro-democracy demonstration in Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 2023. © 2023 Pongmanat Tasiri / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (New...
View ArticleInvestigation Launches into Forcible Transfer of Children in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The overgrown playground of a residential institution for children in Kherson, Ukraine, where Russian forces allegedly took 46 children from, as seen on November 27, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleAfrican Human Rights Commission Affirms Intersex People’s Rights
Click to expand Image The 73rd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia. © 2022 Francisco Perez The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has...
View ArticleUkraine’s New Health Rules Spotlight Barriers to Emergency Contraception
Click to expand Image A customer walks out of a drugstore lit by a portable generator during a blackout in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv following massive Russian airstrikes on January 14, 2023....
View ArticleWeak UN Resolution on Libya Exposes EU Bias
Click to expand Image Migrants who were intercepted by Libyan authorities on a boat off the coast are held ahead of their transfer to a detention centre in Surman, Libya on May 12, 2022. © 2022 Mahmud...
View ArticleFrance Moves to Shut Down Environmental Group
Click to expand Image Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France on March 25, 2023. © 2023 Ugo...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Reject New Counterterrorism Bill
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan rights activists protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Act outside the United Nations office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 3, 2022. © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena/AP...
View ArticleExpulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers Jeopardizes Democracy
Click to expand Image Former Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, and former Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, raise their hands outside the House chamber after Jones and...
View Article20 Years After Deadly Attack, Free Press Still Threatened in Iraq
Click to expand Image A memorial poster for Jose Couso, a Spanish television cameraman killed by a U.S. tank shell which hit Baghdad's Palestine hotel, on a barricade outside the building, April 8,...
View ArticleChina: Quash Convictions of Prominent Rights Lawyers
Click to expand Image Left: Sophie Luo Shengchun, the wife of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, poses with a photo of him at her home in New York, US, July 28, 2022. Right: Chinese legal...
View ArticleIn Conflicting Decisions, Two US Judges Rule on Access to Safe Abortion Drug
Click to expand Image Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at a Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, US, January 13, 2023. ©...
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