Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability
The US government has apparently failed to provide compensation or other redress to Iraqis who suffered torture and other abuse by US forces at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq two decades...
View ArticleGuinea: Significant Progress in 2009 Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Former Guinean president Moussa Dadis Camara, one of eleven men accused of committing crimes during the 2009 Guinean stadium massacre, is heard by judges on December 19, 2022, as...
View ArticleRising Seas, Broken Promises in Panama
Click to expand Image Dark clouds and stormy seas foreshadow future climate change impacts on the island of Gardi Sugdub. © 2023 Pamela Vacacurva for Human Rights Watch Today – September 25, 2023 – is...
View ArticleBrazil: Disability Plan Should End Warehousing
(Brasilia) – The Brazilian government, in its upcoming plan for people with disabilities, should set out concrete plans for deinstitutionalization, Human Rights Watch said today. The plan, to be...
View ArticleIndigenous Peoples Secure Decisive Victory in Brazil
Click to expand Image Brazilian Xokleng Indigenous people celebrate after a majority on Brazil's Supreme Court voted against the so-called legal thesis of 'Marco Temporal' (Temporal Milestone), in...
View ArticlePolish Volunteer Detained for Aiding Migrants
Click to expand Image Polish border guards watch asylum seekers stuck at the Polish-Belarus border in Bialowieza, May 28, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images Polish authorities have hit a new low in their...
View ArticleUzbekistan Authorities Keep Wrongfully Imprisoned Lawyer Isolated
Click to expand Image Twenty-two defendants, including blogger and lawyer Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, listen to the verdict in their trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main...
View ArticleUS Rebukes Egypt for Using Child Soldiers
Click to expand Image Egyptian army soldiers guard the entrance of tunnels and the Suez Canal area, in Ismailia, Egypt, November 17, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany The United States...
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges Against Climate Activist
Click to expand Image 2018 Obama scholar Hoang Thi Minh Hong © Private (Bangkok) - The Vietnamese government should immediately drop all charges against the prominent environmental activist Hoang Thi...
View ArticleUS/Haiti: Suspend Deportation Flights to Haiti
Click to expand Image Haitian community leaders, immigrant community members, and their supporters gather on October 22, 2021 at the Newark Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Newark,...
View ArticleBangladesh: Shipping Firms Profit from Labor Abuse
Click to expand Image Workers dismantling a ship without adequate protective equipment in Chattogram Bangladesh. © 2023 Anukta Many European shipping companies are knowingly sending their end-of-life...
View ArticleGermany Should Keep Focus on Rights in Central Asia Talks
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) welcomes Shavkat Mirsiyoyev, President of Uzbekistan, in front of the Chancellor's Office in Berlin, Germany, May 2, 2023. © 2023 Bernd von...
View ArticleXenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in South Africa
Click to expand Image A man holds up a South African flag as members of "Operation Dudula" march down a street in the Hillbrow neighborhood to deliver memoranda to several businesses in the area,...
View ArticleEU Commission Should Stop Ignoring Tunisia’s Abuses Against Migrants
Click to expand Image Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Tunisian President Kais Saied, centre, right and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Extend Ethiopia Investigations
Click to expand Image Displaced persons center in northern Ethiopia where many still suffer from the effects of the war that began in 2020, August 14, 2023. © 2023 Edgar GutiÈrrez / SOPA Images/Sipa...
View ArticleProminent Journalist Denied Bail in Congo
Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo denied provisional release to journalist...
View ArticleEuropean Court Hears Climate Crisis Case Brought by Children
Click to expand Image Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire at the village of Chaveira, near Macao, in central Portugal on Monday, July 22, 2019. © AP Photo/Sergio Azenha Three years ago, four...
View ArticleBeijing’s Increasingly Desperate Attempts to Squelch UN Criticism
Click to expand Image China's then-Minister for Foreign Affairs Qin Gang delivers a remote statement during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 27, 2023. © 2023...
View ArticleTime to Ban Facial Recognition from Public Spaces and Borders
Click to expand Image Pedestrians walk across a crossroad as a big electronic screen supported by face-recognition system shows the image of a jaywalker at the intersection in Nanjing city, east...
View ArticleNo, Syria Is Still Not Safe for Refugee Returns
Click to expand Image Migrants from Syria walk towards a refugee camp at Kokkinotrimithia, outside of the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, September 10, 2017. © 2017...
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