US: Systemic Rights Failings
Click to expand Image Demonstrators kneel outside the Long Beach Police Department in Long Beach, California during a protest on May 31, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File (Washington, DC) –...
View ArticleUK: Setting Aside Rights when Inconvenient
Click to expand Image Hospital workers remember their colleagues who have died from coronavirus and call on UK health authorities to provide personal protective equipment at University College...
View ArticleEU: Respect Rights Amid Pandemic, Economic Downturn
Click to expand Image A nurse holds hands with a Covid-19 patient at the intensive care unit of Casal Palocco hospital in Rome, October 20, 2020. ©2020 Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP (Brussels) –...
View ArticleBiden Should Cement Rights in US Policy
(Washington, DC) – US President-elect Joe Biden should work with global leaders who have sought to shore up a defense of human rights around the world, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its...
View ArticleTurkey: Covid-19 Pandemic Used to Strengthen Autocratic Rule
Click to expand Image Police block protesting lawyers during a demonstration against a government draft bill to reduce the authority of Turkey’s leading bar associations. July 10, 2020, Ankara. © 2020...
View ArticleIndonesia: Weak Public Health Response to Covid-19
Click to expand Image Students and laborers protest against a new job creation law that hinders labor rights, Bandung, Indonesia, October 8, 2020. © 2020 Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images (Jakarta) – The...
View ArticleThailand: Rights Crisis Rapidly Worsens
Click to expand Image A high school student holds up the three-finger salute and gives a speech at a youth-led rally in Chiang Mai, Thailand on August 25, 2020. © 2020 Supitcha Chailom (New York,...
View ArticleVietnam: Rights Violations Intensify
Click to expand Image Vietnamese Political Detainees: Pham Doan Trang; Can Thi Theu and her sons Trinh Ba Phuong and Trinh Ba Tu; Dinh Thi Thu Thuy; Pham Chi Dung; Nguyen Tuong Thuy; Le Huu Minh Tuan;...
View ArticleIndia: Growing Crackdown on Activists, Critics
Click to expand Image Indian migrant workers sit atop a bus as others walk along an expressway to return to their home villages during a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, New Delhi, India, March 28, 2020....
View ArticleMalaysia: Dangerous Backsliding on Rights
Click to expand Image Undocumented migrants are detained during a crackdown by Malaysia’s Immigration Department in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, May 20, 2020. © 2020...
View ArticleSri Lanka: A Return to Threats, Fear
Click to expand Image Inmates protest on the roof a prison building calling for speedier judicial processes and increased protection amid rising cases of Covid-19, Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 18,...
View ArticleMaldives: Pandemic Response Exposes Inequities, Abuse
Click to expand Image Security personnel patrol an accommodation block where Bangladeshi migrant workers are being quarantined after Covid-19 cases were found in the area, Malé, Maldives, May 9, 2020....
View ArticlePakistan: Worsening Crackdown on Dissent
Click to expand Image Members of civil society groups take part in a rally to condemn a recent gang rape of a woman on a highway, Karachi, Pakistan, September 12, 2020. © 2020 Fareed Khan/AP Photo...
View ArticleEU Should Regulate Artificial Intelligence to Protect Rights
Click to expand Image European Union flags are waving in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. August 5, 2020. © 2020 Laurie Dieffembacq (Sipa via AP Images) The last...
View ArticleMomentum Builds Around Intersex Protection in India
Click to expand Image The Intersex flag. The child rights agency for India’s capital city this week recommended a ban on medically unnecessary “normalizing” surgeries on children born with intersex...
View ArticleTop US Officials Knew of Harm Caused by Separating Families
Click to expand Image People hold signs to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to detain children crossing the southern U.S. border and separating families outside of City...
View ArticleCameroon Court Denies Request to Release Opposition Leaders
Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private On January 12, an appeals court in Cameroon rejected legal efforts...
View ArticleEuropean Court Accepts Case to Adjudicate Abuses in Crimea
Click to expand Image The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. © 2009 Reuters On January 14, the European Court of Human Rights issued a significant decision accepting Ukraine’s complaint...
View ArticleUK Lags Behind Tackling Forced Labor in Xinjiang
Click to expand Image People work amidst massive piles of cotton in China's Xinjiang province. The United Kingdom and Canada made coordinated announcements this week to help prevent British and...
View Article18th Annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The 18th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in its second year of partnership with Hot Docs, will present five powerful and compelling films that will be completely digital for the first...
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