Nepal: IMF Should Help Expand Child Grant Program
Click to expand Image Children write in chalk on the walls of a Saraswati temple on the festival of Saraswati Puja on January 26, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The International...
View ArticleAnother Hot Summer for People with Disabilities in Spain
Click to expand Image Fernando Uceta, who has COPD, uses a portable oxygen concentrator to breathe as he sits on the balcony of his home during the summer heatwave, in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Awaits Justice for Mayom Extrajudicial Killings
Click to expand Image South Sudan's President Salva Kiir arrives at Juba's Presidential Palace, South Sudan, February 3, 2023. © 2023 Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo On August 8, 2022, videos and photographs...
View ArticleVenezuela: Move Ahead with Aid Agreement
Click to expand Image On November 26, 2022, after months of stalled negotiations, representatives of the government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition signed an agreement to increase humanitarian...
View ArticleDeepening Crisis in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
Click to expand Image Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Repression Worsens 2 Years into Taliban Rule
Click to expand Image Afghan women receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 28, 2023. © 2023 Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo (New York) – Taliban authorities...
View ArticleAustralia: Introduce a Human Rights Act
Click to expand Image Activists preparing posters. © Maskot/Getty Images (Sydney) – The Australian government should introduce a national Human Rights Act to better protect the fundamental rights of...
View ArticleEcuador: Presidential Candidate Killed
Click to expand Image Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio waves an Ecuadorian flag during a campaign event at a school before he was shot to death outside the same school in Quito, Ecuador,...
View ArticleViolence against Indigenous People Overshadows Amazon Summit
Click to expand Image Indigenous people demonstrate against acts of violence before the civil and military police stations in Tomé-Açu, state of Pará, Brazil. August 7, 2023. © 2023 Andrea...
View ArticleNiger: Ensure Safety, Rights of Detained President
Click to expand Image Demonstrators protest the military’s detention of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, Niger on July 26, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Military coup leaders in...
View ArticleUN Experts Criticize Nepal’s Transitional Justice Bill
Click to expand Image Flag of the United Nations, February 24, 2020. © 2020 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images United Nations experts have criticized a bill to amend Nepal’s transitional justice...
View ArticleEgypt: Rab’a Massacre Reverberates 10 Years Later
(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have failed for a decade to hold anyone accountable for the largest mass killing in Egypt’s modern history, Human Rights Watch said today. The Rab’a massacre, a likely...
View ArticleHaiti: Surge in Violent Abuses
Killings, kidnappings, and sexual violence by criminal groups in and around Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, have increased dramatically since the start of 2023. The Haitian government has failed to...
View ArticleMiddle East and North Africa: Embrace Social Protection for All
Click to expand Image People wait in line at a bakery in Beirut, Lebanon, July 2022. © 2022 Hussam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – Governments of the Middle East and North Africa...
View ArticleJordan’s New Cybercrime Law is a Disaster for LGBT People
Click to expand Image © 2023 Christina Atik for Human Rights Watch On Saturday Jordan’s king approved a draconian cybercrime law that was rammed through parliament and is significantly worse than its...
View ArticleAn Opportunity to Remedy Inequality in Pakistan
Click to expand Image Women carry belongings salvaged from their flooded homes after monsoon rains in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh province, Pakistan, September 6, 2022. © 2022 Fareed...
View ArticleChina: Combat Anti-Black Racism on Social Media
Click to expand Image Collage of news headlines on anti-Black racism in China. © 2023 Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Chinese government should acknowledge and condemn anti-Black racism prevalent...
View ArticleDarfur: Rapid Support Forces, Allied Militias Rape Dozens
Click to expand Image Three women and a teenaged girl from El Geneina, West Darfur, who survived rape committed by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias between April and June 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleIndonesian Schoolgirls Testify on Mandatory Hijab and Bullying
Click to expand Image Imam Nakha’i of the National Commission on Violence Against Women discussing the 120 mandatory hijab regulations, 73 of which are still in force, in Jakarta, Indonesia, August,...
View ArticleAustralia Should Prioritize Humanitarian Visas for Afghans
Click to expand Image Women and children in need of food outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, February 28, 2022. © 2022 Teun Voeten/Sipa USA via AP Images This week marks the two-year anniversary...
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