'X' Passports in US Mark Shift Toward Respecting Gender Diversity
Click to expand Image A U.S. Passport cover shown on May 25, 2021, in Washington, D.C. © 2021 Eileen Putman/AP Photo The United States government announced today it will institute a third gender...
View ArticleUS: Prioritize Home, Community-Based Services for Older People
Click to expand Image A nursing home resident holds his wife's hand. © Human Rights Watch US lawmakers should prioritize support for home and community-based services for older people as part of the...
View ArticleMalaysia: Raids on Migrants Hinder Vaccine Access
Click to expand Image Migrant workers show their passports during a raid in Dengkil, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 21, 2021. © 2021 Zahim Mohd/NurPhoto via AP (Bangkok) – The Malaysian...
View ArticleConcrete Action Needed Against Islamophobia in Canada
Click to expand Image A mourner shields a candle from the wind after placing it at a memorial for the four family members who were killed in a vehicle attack in London, Ontario, in Ottawa, on Tuesday,...
View ArticleEswatini: Respect Rights While Policing Protests
Click to expand Image King Mswati III of Eswatini addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 25, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Richard Drew (Johannesburg) – Eswatini...
View ArticleGermany: Inaction on Heat Plans Threatens Health
Click to expand Image A woman shields herself from the sun with an umbrella on a hot summer day in Cologne, Germany, July 25, 2019. © REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelge Germany has delayed putting into action...
View ArticleKenya: Investigate Deportation of Turkish National
Click to expand Image People wait outside a courthouse before the trial of 475 defendants, including generals and fighter jet pilots, in Sincan, Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. © 2020 AP...
View ArticlePhilippines: Drop Proposal for New Militia
Click to expand Image President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech during the launch and oath-taking of the Global Coalition of Lingkod Bayan Advocacy Support Groups and Force Multipliers at the...
View Article#JusticePourLouise Rape Case Shakes Senegal
Click to expand Image A young woman stands by a window at a secondary school in Dakar. © 2018 Ricci Shryock for Human Rights Watch The hashtag #JusticePourLouise has been trending in Senegal in...
View ArticleIndonesia Supreme Court Supports Mandatory Jilbab Rule
Click to expand Image A primary state school in Solok, West Sumatra, where girls and teachers are required to wear the jilbab --Muslim apparel that covers the head, neck, and chest. © 2018 Andreas...
View ArticleMyanmar: Security Forces Arrest Defense Lawyers
Click to expand Image A police truck is seen on a street during the military coup demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on February 24, 2021. © 2021 Santosh Krl / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s...
View ArticleUN Should Investigate Deadly Attacks on Afghan Civilians
Click to expand Image The mother of a schoolgirl who was among those killed in the brutal May 8, 2021 bombing of the Sayed ul-Shuhada girls' school stands inside a classroom with bouquets of flowers...
View ArticleUN Security Council: End Inaction on Ethiopia
Click to expand Image Ethiopians wait for food distribution in a small town north of Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 7, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ben Curtis © 2021 AP Photo/Ben...
View ArticleHonduras: Court Finds State Responsible for Trans Killing
Click to expand Image Picture of Vicky Hernández. © Red Lésbica Cattrachas (New York) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in a landmark ruling on June 26, 2021, held that Honduras violated the...
View ArticleSenegal: New Counterterror Laws Threaten Rights
Click to expand Image People flee teargas thrown by riot police during a protest against the proposed counterterrorism law and penal code reform at the Cheikh Anta Diop University campus in Dakar,...
View ArticleUkraine: Torture, Ill-Treatment by Armed Groups in East
Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch (Kyiv) – Russia-backed armed groups in eastern Ukraine are torturing and ill-treating people in custody, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...
View ArticleChina: Tibetan Monks Harshly Sentenced
Click to expand Image Secretary Zhang Ling (center) during his inspection tour of Tengdro monastery in Shekar town, Tingri county, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 2, 2020. Comrade Zhang Ling is Deputy...
View ArticleCyprus Moves to Shutter Local Human Rights Group
Click to expand Image A migrant carrying a camp bed and bed clothes inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside of Nicosia, Cyprus, March 3, 2020. © 2020 Petros Karadjias/AP Photo In September...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Should Greenlight Global Racism Probe
Click to expand Image Delegates attend a session on racism and police brutality, a resolution in the wake of the death of George Floyd, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva,...
View ArticleEuropean Court Upholds Russian Transgender Woman’s Right to Family Life
Click to expand Image Activists participate in the St Petersburg LGBT Pride march on August 12, 2017. © 2017 Valya Egorshin/NurPhoto via Getty Images In a victory for a transgender parent’s right to...
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