US Supreme Court Rejects Alabama’s Discriminatory Voting Map
Click to expand Image Lead counsel for the plaintiffs Deuel Ross (2nd left) speaks to members of the press as President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Janai Nelson (right),...
View ArticleUS Lawmakers Move to Protect Child Farmworkers
Click to expand Image Workers house harvested burley tobacco in a barn in Shelbyville, Kentucky, US, August 20, 2020. © 2020 Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images United States Congress members...
View ArticleUN Should Enhance Screening of Bangladesh Peacekeepers
Click to expand Image Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion soldiers stand on guard during the demonstration in Dhaka, December 10, 2022. © 2022 Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images United...
View ArticleWorld Bank / Jordan: Poverty Targeting Algorithms Harm Rights
Click to expand Image © 2023 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch An automated cash transfer program in Jordan developed with significant financing from the World Bank is undermined by errors,...
View ArticleDR Congo: Killings, Rapes by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
Click to expand Image After the rain, traders leave the market with their luggage in Kitchanga, 90 kilometers from the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, December 10, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleGovernments at Bonn Climate Talks Should Press UAE on Rights
Click to expand Image In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. © 2016 AP Photo/Jon Gambrell Ahmed...
View ArticleAnother Trial for Human Rights Work Starts in Minsk
Click to expand Image Anastasia Loika, 2022. © 2022 Private Today, the Minsk City Court held the first hearing in the trial against a prominent Belarusian human rights defender, Anastasia Loika. She...
View ArticleGuinea, Donors Should Find Way to Resume Stadium Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Defendants in Guinea’s 2009 stadium massacre trial appear before the judges on the first day of the trial, in Conakry, September 28, 2022. © 2022 Elise Keppler/Human Rights...
View ArticleIndia: Internet Shutdowns Hurt Vulnerable Communities
Click to expand Image Women working at a job site in a village in Rajasthan under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), September 2022. NREGA is the Indian government’s...
View ArticleDR Congo: Mass Graves Tied to Rwanda-Backed M23
Click to expand Image Two men indicate the position of a mass grave among banana trees near the Adventist Church on April 5, 2023. Several people were executed outside the church by M23 in November...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Ensure Fair Appeal In ‘Extremism’ Case
Click to expand Image Jahongir Ulugmurodov, 2022. © 2022/Private (Berlin, June 14, 2023) – Uzbek authorities should ensure a fair appeals process for a student sentenced to three years in prison for...
View ArticleDonors in Brussels Should Act on Lebanon Education Crisis
Click to expand Image Lebanese teachers protest outside the Education Ministry, Beirut, Lebanon, March 6, 2023. © 2023 Hussein Malla/AP Photo Many students in Lebanon risk losing another year of...
View ArticleJapan Immigration Law Creates New Obstacles for Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Japan’s Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, which includes the Tokyo Detention Center, December 2, 2015. © 2015 Yuya Shino/Reuters On June 6, just weeks before World Refugee Day,...
View ArticleChina: US Top-Level Visit Should Focus on Rights
Click to expand Image Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington, DC, May 16, 2023. © 2023 Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images...
View Article“Loss After Loss After Loss”: Dam Destruction in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The flooded town of Oleshky, Ukraine, after the June 6 destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, June 10, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo In the early morning of June 6, the Nova Kakhovka dam...
View ArticleJapan Should Recognize Nonconsensual Intercourse as Rape
Click to expand Image Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Nagoya, Japan, March 8, 2020. © 2020 Kyodo/AP Images A landmark bill now before Japan’s upper...
View ArticleChagos: 50th Anniversary of Islanders’ Deportation
Click to expand Image The M/V Nordvaer departing East Point Plantation, Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago, circa April 1969. © 1969 Kirby Crawford (Port Louis) – The United Kingdom and United States...
View ArticleUN Expert Raises Alarm Over Ineffective Beirut Blast Investigation
Click to expand Image Families of the victims of the Beirut port blast hold pictures of their loved ones near Lebanese soldiers during a protest outside of the Beirut court, September 27, 2022. ©...
View ArticleBurkina Faso: Upsurge in Atrocities by Islamist Armed Groups
Click to expand Image An aerial view shows a camp for internally displaced people in Djibo, Burkina Faso, May 26, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Sam Mednick (Nairobi) – Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso...
View ArticleUS: Nonprofit Hospitals Chase Low-Income Patients on Debts
Click to expand Image © 2023 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – The United States government’s failure to adequately regulate private nonprofit hospitals and to provide quality...
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