South Korea: Promote Human Rights in North Korea
Click to expand Image South Korean President Moon Jae-in addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 24, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Seth Wenig (Seoul) – South Korea’s...
View ArticlePersonal Data of Thousands of Covid-19 Patients Leaked in Moscow
Click to expand Image A woman wearing a face mask looks at her smartphone as she walks through a street in Moscow, Russia, November 23, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Last week,...
View ArticleAn Innovative Model for Foreign Aid in Lebanon
Click to expand Image Aid from the European Union is being unloaded from a cargo plane at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport on September 12, 2020. © 2020 Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via...
View ArticleUS: Provide Meaningful Covid-19 Relief
Click to expand Image A volunteer prepares boxes of food assistance at the Share Your Christmas food distribution event sponsored by the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Faith Neighborhood...
View ArticleUAE: Imprisoned Activist’s Health at Risk
Click to expand Image Human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor smiles while speaking to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, August 25, 2016. © 2016 AP Images (Beirut)...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Attack on Church Possible War Crime
Click to expand Image Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, built in the 19th century and an important building for the Armenian Aposotlic Church, after it was struck twice in the afternoon on October 8. Damage...
View ArticleDR Congo’s Yumbi Massacre Survivors Desperate for Justice
In late December 2018, Father Nestor Longota, a Catholic priest, returned to Bongende, his home village in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. “What I saw was unimaginable,” he said last week....
View ArticleCombating Domestic Violence is Dangerous Work in Russia
Click to expand Image The staff of Nasiliu.net center, an awareness-raising group that provides assistance to domestic violence survivors. © 2020 Nasiliu.net In Russia, working to prevent and combat...
View ArticleSaudi: Terrorism Court Rushes Activist’s Unfair Trial
Click to expand Image Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul had been on hunger strike for six days before Saudi authorities finally allowed her parents to visit on August 31, according...
View ArticleHungary’s Family Minister Undermines Equality for Women
Click to expand Image Hungarian minister with responsibility for families, Katalin Novak, in a December 2020 video lecturing Hungarian women about how they can achieve success. © Axioma Media I...
View ArticleEgypt: Collective Punishment in Scorpion Prison
Click to expand Image A satellite photograph of Scorpion Prison taken in September 2016. Inmates suffer abuses in secret and are denied most access to the outside world. Satellite imagery. © 2016...
View ArticleSouth Asia: Justice, Services Can Curb Sexual Violence
(New York) – South Asian governments should disregard populist death penalty rhetoric and listen to their own experts to prevent and end sexual violence against women, Human Rights Watch said in a...
View ArticlePeru: Serious Police Abuses Against Protesters
(Lima) – The Peruvian National Police committed multiple abuses against mostly peaceful demonstrators protesting the ousting of then-President Martín Vizcarra in November 2020, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleFrance: Law for Responsible Asset Return Urgently Needed
Click to expand Image A picture taken on February 14, 2012 on the Avenue Foch in Paris shows a truck at the entrance of Paris residence of the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang,...
View ArticleRomanian Court Slams Law Banning Discussion of Gender in Education
Click to expand Image Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, where the Constitutional Court of Romania is located, July 2020. © Council of Europe Romania’s Constitutional Court this week struck down a...
View ArticleKazakhstan Adopts Long-Promised Amendments to Trade Union Law
Click to expand Image A worker walks past oil tanks in southern Kazakhstan. © 2016 Reuters Kazakhstan has taken an important step toward improving trade union rights – a major area of human rights...
View ArticleWestern Sahara: Morocco Cracks Down on Activists
(New York) – Morocco has cracked down on pro-independence activists in Western Sahara after an incident at a border crossing on November 13, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The incident re-ignited...
View ArticleTanzanian Activist Still Jailed One Year On
Click to expand Image Tito Magoti and Theodory Giyani attend a court hearing in Dar es Salaam on December 24, 2019. © 2019 Sipa Michael Mallya This Sunday marks one year since police in Dar es Salaam...
View ArticleItaly: Flawed Migrant Regularization Program
Click to expand Image An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020. © Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan) –...
View ArticleUS: Protect Cameroonians From Deportation
Click to expand Image A patrol of Cameroonian gendarmes during a political rally in the Omar Bongo Square, Buea, capital of the South-West region, on October 3, 2018. © 2018 Marco Longari/AFP/Getty...
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