Time to Focus on Human Rights in EU’s Turkey Agenda
The bolder Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gets, the quieter the European Union (EU). Click to expand Image Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a meeting with European Council...
View ArticleCovid-19 Pandemic Ravages Brazil
Click to expand Image An aerial photograph of a burial in April 2020 in Manaus, in the Amazon forest in Brazil, where people who died of suspected or confirmed Covid-19 are buried. © 2020 Michael...
View ArticleArizona Legislators Should Reject Immunity for Nursing Homes
Click to expand Image © 2009 iStock/Getty Images This week, Arizona legislators will vote on bill 1377, which would shield nursing homes from civil liability for negligence while providing services...
View ArticleUS State Department Re-Commits to Reporting on Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, March 30, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticlePoland: Escalating Threats to Women Activists
Click to expand Image Protesters hold a banner of Strajk Kobiet (Women's Strike) during a protest in Warsaw on March 8, International Women's Day, organized by the Women's Strike (Strajk Kobiet)...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Independent Blogger Attacked
(Berlin) – Unidentified assailants brutally attacked an independent blogger who has publicly defended lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights outside his home in Tashkent, Uzbekistan late...
View ArticleGermany: New Policy to Champion LGBTI Rights Abroad
Click to expand Image A participant at a feminist protest on international women’s day in Munich, Germany on 8 March 2020. © 2020 ddp images/Sipa USA via AP Images (Berlin) – The German government...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Alleged Child Offender on Death Row
Click to expand Image Abdullah al-Huwaiti © Private (Beirut) – A Saudi man on death row could be executed even though he was 14 at the time of the alleged crime and his conviction followed a grossly...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea’s Universal Periodic Review
Click to expand Image A boy and a woman at a bus stop in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, November 17, 2018. © 2018 Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant/Sipa USA via AP Images The Papua New Guinea government...
View ArticleGreece: Lead Contamination Threat to Migrants Unresolved
Click to expand Image Authorities removing soil on January 25, 2021. © 2021 DunyaCollective Dozens of families are still accommodated in areas of a migrant camp in Lesbos where soil testing showed...
View ArticleUS Court Rules for Safety in Meatpacking
Click to expand Image © 2019 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch In a major victory for meatpacking workers, a United States district court in Minnesota on Wednesday found that the US Department of...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Target Journalists, Women in Media
Click to expand Image Afghan journalists film at the site of a bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul (New York) – Taliban forces are deliberately...
View ArticleNew York State Passes Important Legislation for Justice
Click to expand Image Melissa Moore of Drug Policy Alliance (M) speaks at a rally in support of the Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) alongside supporters of the bill on the steps on New York City...
View ArticleTurkey Resumes its Crackdown on Student Protesters
Click to expand Image Police forcefully detain a protester during demonstrations against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rector appointment to Boğaziçi University, April 1 2021, Kadıköy, İstanbul,...
View ArticleUS Rescinds ICC Sanctions
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – US President Joe Biden’s...
View ArticleMyanmar: Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared
Click to expand Image A man is held by police during a crackdown on anti-coup protesters holding a rally in front of the Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, Myanmar on February 15, 2021. © AP Photo...
View ArticleCameroon: Boko Haram Attacks Escalate in Far North
Click to expand Image Cameroonian soldiers patrolling along National Road 1, Mora, Far North region, Cameroon, February 5, 2021. © 2021 Private (Nairobi) – The Islamist armed group Boko Haram has...
View ArticleLebanon: Refugees, Migrants Left Behind in Vaccine Rollout
Click to expand Image A nurse prepares a Covid-19 vaccine syringe at the Saint George Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon on February 16, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Hussein Malla (Beirut) – The Lebanese...
View ArticleCambodia: ‘Stop Covid-19’ System Raises Privacy Concerns
Click to expand Image Cambodian school girls walk home at the end of their school day outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2021 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – The Cambodian government’s “Stop Covid-19”...
View ArticleHow to Chart an Equitable Exit from the Pandemic
Click to expand Image A person in Soweto, South Africa receives an injection as they participate in a clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine in June 2020. © 2020 Siphiwe Sibeko/AFP via Getty Images...
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