Libya: Outspoken Benghazi Lawyer Murdered
Click to expand Image Hanan Al-Barassi, a Benghazi-based lawyer, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen on November 10, 2020, in her hometown. © 2020, Hanan Al-Barassi’s Facebook Live (Beirut) –...
View ArticleRussia: New Effort to Stifle Independent Groups
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko...
View ArticleAfghan Victims Deserve Justice in Australian Inquiry
Click to expand Image Australian SAS search operation in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, in May 2012. Screenshot from ABC News, Four Corners, March 16, 2020. The Australian military has long been known...
View ArticleNew Philippine Police Chief Has Troubling Record
Click to expand Image Major General Debold Sinas. © NCRPO PIO/Facebook President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed police Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas as the new head of the Philippine National Police (PNP),...
View ArticleUS: Biden Should Reinstate Landmine Ban
Click to expand Image A deminer works in Algeciras, Huila Department, Colombia in July 2020. © 2020 Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines (Geneva) – US President-elect Joe Biden should reinstate US...
View ArticleAngola: Police Fire on Peaceful Protesters
Click to expand Image Angolan activist Nito Alves receives assistance from paramedics after being beaten by alleged plainclothes police officers during a peaceful anti-government protest in Luanda, on...
View ArticleUS: Biden Should Act to Ensure Rights for All
Click to expand Image Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware on November 5, 2020, while Kamala Harris looks on. © 2020 AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster US President-elect Joe Biden should set out a...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Journalist Murdered in Helmand
Click to expand Image Elyas Dayee, reporter for Radio Azadi. © Elyas Dayee/ Facebook (New York) – An improvised explosive device (IED) attached to the car of Elyas Dayee, a reporter with Azadi Radio,...
View ArticleEngland is Under Lockdown Again. Is Universal Credit Ready?
Click to expand Image Citizens Advice operates the “Help to Claim” service, which helps people apply for Universal Credit online. © 2020 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch A bleak Covid-19 winter is...
View ArticleBiden Administration Should End US Assault on United Nations
Click to expand Image President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, November 10, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster US President-elect Joe Biden should move quickly...
View ArticlePeru: Ousting of President Threatens Rule of Law
Click to expand Image Martín Vizcarra speaks in front of the presidential palace after lawmakers voted to remove him from office in Lima, Peru, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. © AP Photo/Martin Mejia...
View ArticleChina: Beijing Forces Out Hong Kong Opposition Lawmakers
Click to expand Image Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators pose for a photo before a press conference at Legislative Council in Hong Kong, Wednesday on November 11, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Vincent Yu...
View ArticleNigeria: Punitive Financial Moves Against Protesters
Click to expand Image People hold banners and flags as they protest against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday Oct. 19, 2020. © AP Photo/Sunday Alamba (Abuja) – Nigerian authorities appear to...
View Article2021 Promises Better Protection for Women From Violence, Harassment at Work
Click to expand Image Marcelina Bautista, leader of Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar, a domestic workers organization, celebrates the beginning of a pilot program extending...
View ArticleCalifornians Vote for Criminal Legal System Reform
Click to expand Image California State Prison, Centinela in Imperial County, California. © Rich LaSalle/Getty Images During last week’s elections in the United States, Californians strongly supported...
View ArticleEthiopia: Protect People as Tigray Crisis Escalates
Click to expand Image Ethiopian women who fled fighting in Tigray region at a refugee camp in the Sudanese border town of al-Fashqa, November 13, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleMan Killed for Protecting Symbols of Peaceful Protests in Belarus
Raman Bandarenka died yesterday as a result of a vicious beating by a group of unidentified assailants in the capital of Belarus. Today, thousands of peaceful protestors across the country demanded...
View ArticleCambodia: Scrap Draft Cybercrime Law
Click to expand Image A man views Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook page on his mobile phone in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2016 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (San Francisco) – The Cambodian...
View ArticleCurbing Political Threats by Law Enforcement in the US
Click to expand Image Phoenix Police Department vehicles block off a street in Phoenix, Arizona, May 30, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin Recent politically motivated threats and calls for...
View ArticleWaiving Intellectual Property Rules Key to Beating Covid-19
With two companies, Pfizer and BioNTech, having announced promising early results for a Covid-19 vaccine they are developing, governments in the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom...
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