White House Issues Significant Environmental Justice Order for Earth Day
Click to expand Image On Earth Day, marchers at the White House hold a banner reading, “End the Era of Fossil Fuels.” Washington, DC, US, April 22, 2023. © 2023 Antonia Juhasz When Tish Taylor saw...
View ArticleIran: Security Forces Kill, Torture, Abuse Children
Click to expand Image A memorial to children killed in Iran outside of UNICEF’s office in Washington, DC, November 30, 2022. © 2022 Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP (Beirut) – Iran’s security...
View ArticleSudan Conflict and International Law
Click to expand Image Residential buildings damaged in fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, April 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Marwan Ali (Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch released a question and answer document...
View ArticlePakistan’s Sindh Province Backs Transgender Rights
Click to expand Image The Aurat March to end gender-based violence against women and transgender and non-binary people on International Women's Day, March 8, 2021 in Karachi, Pakistan. © 2021 Betsy...
View ArticleMexico’s Congress Should Ban Discriminatory Immigration Checks
Click to expand Image A Mexican Marine orders a group of migrants from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan off a bus at an immigration checkpoint outside the town of Viva Mexico, near Tapachula, in Chiapas...
View ArticleRights Groups Launch Community Safety Agenda for the US
Click to expand Image Hundreds march from Nubian Square to City Hall to urge Boston City Council to reallocate Boston police funding to youth jobs programs in Boston Public Schools in Boston,...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Parliament Threatens Ombudswoman’s Early Dismissal
Click to expand Image President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov speaks at a plenary session of parliament where new ministers are sworn in on March 9, 2022 in Bishkek. © 2022 Nazir Aliyev Tayfur/Anadolu...
View ArticleEU Council Conclusions on Ethiopia Shortchange Justice
Click to expand Image Displaced Tigrayans sit alongside metal shacks at a reception center for internally displaced people in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 9, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleEthiopia: Companies Long Ignored Gold Mine Pollution
Click to expand Image A 16-year-old boy collects water from a spring near Lega Dembi gold mine in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. © 2020 Tom Gardner The company operating an Ethiopian gold mine and...
View ArticlePeru: Egregious Abuses by Security Forces
Click to expand Image Relatives and friends of people killed during demonstrations in Juliaca, Peru, carry pictures of their loved ones at a February 9, 2023, march commemorating one month since their...
View ArticlePope Francis Should Stress Equal Treatment of Refugees During Hungary Visit
Click to expand Image Police patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border barrier near Kelebia, Hungary, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Marton Monus/Reuters Pope Francis’ visit to Hungary from April 28-30 is an...
View ArticleHong Kong Arrest Encroaches on Free Expression in Japan
Click to expand Image Japanese Foreign Ministry's senior official Shigeo Yamada, second right, speaks to Chinese counterpart Sun Weidong, second left, during the Japan-China security dialogue at the...
View ArticleA Chance for Justice in Burundi
Click to expand Image Burundi's former Prime minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni at the Ingoma stadium in Gitega, Burundi, on June 26, 2020. © 2020 Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP via Getty Images The arrest of...
View ArticleMozambique Legalizes Militia to Fight Insurgency in North
Click to expand Image Mozambican soldiers in Mocímboa da Praia, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, on September 27, 2022. © 2022 Camille Lafont/AFP via Getty Images by Nirvaly Mooloo, Intern,...
View ArticleAfghanistan Special Envoys Should Hold Firm Line on Rights
Click to expand Image Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General, at a press briefing at UN headquarters in New York, January 25, 2023. © 2023 Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock On May 1, United...
View ArticleTurkish Border Guards Torture, Kill Syrians
Click to expand Image A picture of the cement wall separating Syria and Turkey near Haram in Northwest Syria on March 14, 2023. © 2023 Ali Haj Suleiman (Beirut) – Turkish border guards are...
View ArticleTanzania: Maasai Forcibly Displaced for Game Reserve
Click to expand Image Tanzanian Maasai women evicted from their land in Loliondo sit outside a Maasai manyatta, a traditional house made with branches, mud, and cow-dung, in a village in Narok, Kenya,...
View ArticleThailand: Detained Uyghur Asylum Seeker Dies
Click to expand Image An immigration detention center in the Sathorn area of Bangkok, where human rights activists believe that a group of Uyghurs are being detained, September 30, 2022. © 2022 Jack...
View Article34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York
Click to expand Image Seven Winters in Tehran. Photo: Courtesy of Made in Germany. (New York) – The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th year, will present a full edition of 10...
View ArticlePhilippines: Drop Cases Against Critics Before US Visit
Click to expand Image Activist groups hold a protest at Plaza Miranda in Manila during the inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as president of the Philippines, June 30, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP...
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