Greece: Migrant Camp Lead Contamination
Click to expand Image A child plays next to an earth digger moving soil on Mavrovouni hill on January 25, 2021. © 2021 DunyaCollective The Greek government should release test results and other vital...
View ArticleICC to Rule on Lord’s Resistance Army Leader
Click to expand Image Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, waits for the judge to arrive as he made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague,...
View ArticleFrance: End Systemic Police Discrimination
Click to expand Image Police perform a stop during the Covid-19 lockdown in Nice, France, April 8, 2020 © 2020 Eric Gaillard/Reuters (Paris) – Police in France engage in longstanding and widespread...
View ArticleNew York City Should Support Street Vending for a More Just Recovery
Click to expand Image Street vendors and supporters march across Brooklyn Bridge during a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, November 12, 2020. © 2020 Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty...
View ArticleUS: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation
Click to expand Image Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork to meet with an attorney on Oct. 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters...
View ArticleTime to Stop Ethnic Profiling in France
Click to expand Image Police perform a stop during the Covid-19 lockdown in Nice, France, April 8, 2020 © 2020 Eric Gaillard/Reuters Yesterday in Paris, a bailiff delivered a 145-page letter putting...
View ArticleDR Congo: Repression Escalates
Click to expand Image Police arrest protesters in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during demonstrations opposing the newly appointed president of the electoral commission, July 8, 2020. ©...
View ArticleLebanon: Gaps Remain in Vaccine Program Planning
Click to expand Image Red Cross volunteers waiting with a coronavirus patient for a place in the intensive care unit of Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, January 11, 2021. © 2021 Marwan...
View ArticleBrazil: Crackdown on Critics of Covid-19 Response
Click to expand Image Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, without a mask, attends a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Brasilia, along with ministers and other authorities, most of whom are wearing...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Independent Union Under Threat of Suspension
Click to expand Image Kuspan Kosshygulov (center) is one of the workers at an oil construction company who went on a hunger strike demanding that Kazakhstan not liquidate the independent confederation...
View ArticleMexico: Public Accountability, Privacy Under Threat
Click to expand Image A police officer walks outside the offices of the National Institute for Transparency and Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) in Mexico City, Mexico. © 2016 Archivo...
View ArticleProposed Pakistan Law Seeks Greater Control of Media
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalists hold nationwide protests to denounce rampant censorship, and hold a banner that reads: "black day," in Karachi, Pakistan, July 16, 2019. © 2019 AP...
View ArticleChina Signals Roll-Back on Minority Languages
Click to expand Image Poster issued by China in primary schools in Tibet. Translation: “Love the national flag, Sing the national anthem Mandarin is the working language in schools Please speak the...
View Article77 Lashes for a Gay Couple in Indonesia
Click to expand Image A Shariah law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 28, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Riska Munawarah...
View ArticleUS: Biden Acts to Undo Trump Damage to Women’s Health
Click to expand Image A woman walks past a mural on a Family Health Options clinic in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC) – United States President Joe...
View ArticleSri Lanka: UN Rights Chief Decries Mounting Abuses
Click to expand Image UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 4, 2019. © 2019 Salvatore...
View ArticleUS Defense Contractor Distances Itself from Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image A failed BLU-108 canister, with two submunitions still attached, that was delivered by a CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon during an attack on the quarry of the Amran Cement Factory,...
View ArticleA Glimmer of Hope for South Sudan’s Victims
Click to expand Image Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei, in southern South Sudan. The formerly peaceful town of Yei was once a beacon of coexistence, but Yei is now a center...
View ArticleRussia: Police Double Down on Detaining Protesters
Click to expand Image A policeman detains a man while protesters try to help him, during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 31,...
View ArticleUN: Countries Call Out Rwanda’s Rights Record
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
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