French Police Forcibly Oust Undocumented Migrants from Mayotte
Click to expand Image A French gendarme stands guard during the demolition of an informal settlement in Longoni, Mamoudzou, on the island of Mayotte on April 27, 2023. © 2023 Patrick Meinhardt/AFP...
View ArticleNew York Takes Step to Reduce its Contribution to Deforestation
Click to expand Image Deforestation due to plant palm oil plantations near Sandakan city, State of Sabah, North Borneo Island, Malaysia, August 5, 2019. © 2019 Emy/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images On...
View ArticleTokyo Confirms Myanmar Military Misused Japan-Funded Ships
Click to expand Image A Myanmar protester raises three-finger salutes during a rally to mark the second anniversary of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, outside Myanmar’s embassy in Tokyo, February 1,...
View ArticleUzbekistan/Germany: Make Human Rights Key Component of Talks
Click to expand Image President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivers a speech at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 22, 2021. © Government of...
View ArticleThailand: Free Girl Detained for ‘Defaming Monarchy’
Click to expand Image Student activist Thanalop “Yok” Phalanchai, photographed at age 14, has been held in pretrial detention on royal defamation charges since March 29, 2023. © Thanalop Phalanchai...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council Should Respond to Sudan Crisis
Click to expand Image A building damaged during fighting between the forces of two rival Sudanese generals in Khartoum, April 23, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images Since fighting broke out in Khartoum...
View ArticleFighting Devastates Sudan’s West Darfur
Click to expand Image People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, after fighting between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces, April 29, 2023. ©...
View ArticleTop Russian Activist Indicted
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov and his lawyer, Ekaterina Tertukhina, at the prosecutor’s office in Moscow when they received his indictment. © 2023 Memorial Last weekend, Russian authorities moved...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Apparent War Crimes in Border Conflict
Click to expand Image Forces from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan killed and injured civilians in apparent war crimes during their brief but intense armed border conflict in September 2022. The...
View ArticleDR Congo: Reject Discriminatory Nationality Bill
Click to expand Image The People's Palace in Kinshasa, DRC, which houses the Congolese Parliament. © 2011 Grazyna Bonati/Alamy Stock Photo (Kinshasa) – The Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament...
View ArticleNepal: Court Orders Recognition of Same-Sex Spouse
Click to expand Image LGBTQIA activists and supporters take part in a pride parade demanding equal legal rights and marking the month of June as a pride month in Kathmandu, Nepal, June 11, 2022. ©...
View ArticleHuman Rights Press Awards Announce 2023 Winners
(Bangkok) – Reporting on the fifth wave of Covid that engulfed Hong Kong, the Myanmar military’s abuses against the Rohingya, and human trafficking of African students by Taiwanese universities are...
View ArticleCroatia: Ongoing, Violent Border Pushbacks
Click to expand Image A man and his daughter who said Croatian police had pushed them back to Bosnia and Herzegovina 11 times carry a 10-month-old baby in her stroller through the forest near the...
View ArticleEgypt: Detained Academic at Risk of Death
Click to expand Image Salah Soltan © Private 2021 (Beirut) – The Egyptian authorities should immediately release Salah Soltan, the arbitrarily detained father of a prominent US human rights defender,...
View ArticleUK: Rights Action Needed for Gulf Trade Pact
Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The United Kingdom should not finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries until the agreement...
View ArticleMaldives Press Freedom in Danger
Click to expand Image Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City,US, September 21, 2021. © 2021 Eduardo Munoz/Reuters The space for freedom of the...
View ArticleLaos: Activist Gunned Down in Vientiane
Click to expand Image Prominent Lao political activist Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom was fatally shot in Vientiane, Laos on April 29, 2023. © Private (New York) – The Lao government should immediately and...
View ArticleBangladesh: End Crackdown Against Journalists and Critics
Click to expand Image Students protest and call for the release of Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams after a case was filed against him under the Digital Security Act, Dhaka, Bangladesh, March...
View ArticleUS: School Censorship Violates Basic Human Rights
Efforts by US states to ban school curricula offering historically accurate accounts of racism in the United States are attacks on fundamental human rights, Human Rights Watch said today on the May 3,...
View ArticleIraq Gas Flaring Tied to Cancer Surge
Click to expand Image Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq, September 16, 2019. © 2019 Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters Ali Hussein Jaloud, an Iraqi man barely in...
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