Turkey/Kyrgyzstan: Rendition of Turkish-Kyrgyz Educator
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a broadcast on TRT TV on July 5 2021, in which Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that the intelligence services have transported Orhan İnandı from...
View ArticleUN Security Council: Restore Syria Cross-Border Aid
Click to expand Image UN humanitarian aid trucks enter northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey on June 1, 2021. © 2021 Associated Press (New York) – Russia should not block...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Crackdown on Government Critics
Click to expand Image Koshe Party activists handing out information leaflets in Nursultan, Kazakhstan’s capital, before the unregistered group was banned by court order. February 18, 2020. © 2020...
View ArticleHealth Workers Abandoned in Yemen’s Covid-19 Fight
Click to expand Image A medical worker wearing full protective gear stands at the gate of the intensive care unit of a hospital, where coronavirus (Covid-19) patients are treated in Sanaa, Yamen, on...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Displace Civilians
Click to expand Image Afghans carry the bodies of civilians killed during fighting between the Taliban and government security forces, in Badakhshan province, northern Afghanistan, July 4, 2021. ©...
View ArticleChinese Cyber Legend Vanishes, Raising Concerns
Click to expand Image A photo-composite showing a phone displaying the Program-Think twitter account and Chinese flag. Flag: © 2021 Chan Long Hei / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP Images “I hope Program-Think...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Azimjon Askarov’s Family Awaits Justice
Click to expand Image Ethnic Uzbek journalist Azimzhan Askarov, who was arbitrarily arrested, tortured, convicted after an unfair trial and jailed for life looks through metal bars during hearings at...
View ArticleVietnam: Free Prominent Novelist
Click to expand Image Pham Chi Thanh © Private (New York) – The Vietnamese government should immediately release the dissident writer and novelist Pham Chi Thanh and drop all criminal charges against...
View ArticleSupermarket Chain in Russia Acts LGBT-Inclusive, Then Regrets It
Click to expand Image A VkusVill’s market in central Moscow, Russia on July 7th, 2021. © 2021 Human Rights Watch Last week, VkusVill, a prominent Russian food market chain, ran an online advertisement...
View ArticleAustralia: Act on UN Review Pledges
Click to expand Image Australia’s placard at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva © 2015 Human Rights Watch (Geneva, July 8, 2021) – Australia’s rejection of recommendations from United...
View ArticleBolivia: Lesbian Couple Denied Registration of Union
Click to expand Image The Constitutional Court of Bolivia (Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional). © 2016 Héctor A. Aramayo Martínez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, via...
View ArticleA Victory for Rule of Law in South Africa
Click to expand Image Former South Africa President, Jacob Zuma sits in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on November 30, 2018, charged with fraud, corruption, money laundering and...
View ArticleUK Shouldn’t Detain Asylum Seekers Offshore
Click to expand Image A group of people on the deck of HMC Seeker as they wait to be brought ashore by the UK Border Force in Kent. September 22, 2020. © 2020 Gareth Fuller/PA Wire via AP Images The...
View ArticleHaiti: Investigate President’s Killing
Click to expand Image In this February 7, 2020, file photo, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse arrives for an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Moïse was killed...
View ArticleBrazil’s Amazon Governors: Deliver Results to Secure Support
Click to expand Image Governors and vice-governors of Brazil’s Amazon states at the 17th Forum of Governors of the Legal Amazon, March 2019. © 2019 Marcelo Loureiro / Secom © (São Paulo) – The...
View ArticleAnother Critic Detained in Belarus on Undisclosed Charges
Click to expand Image Tatiana Kouzina at a conference in 2019. © Private On July 8, a court in Minsk ordered Tatiana Kouzina, a prominent Belarusian researcher and policy analyst, be held in pretrial...
View ArticleUS Athlete’s Olympics Suspension Highlights Influence of War on Drugs
Click to expand Image Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the first heat of the semi-finals in women's 100-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Saturday, June 19, 2021, in...
View ArticleRevised UN Counterterrorism Strategy Has Stronger Rights Focus
Click to expand Image A wide view of the Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa, with a focus on countering terrorism and extremism in Africa on March 3, 2020 © 2020 Loey Felipe/UN...
View ArticlePhilippines Loses a Press Freedom Fighter
Click to expand Image National Union of Journalists of the Philippines chairman Nonoy Espina speaks to other journalists and activists as they gather to hold a vigil on the eve of the promulgation of...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Needs to Act on Ethiopia
Click to expand Image Tigrinyan refugee women prepare bread for their family in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan on December 11, 2020 © 2020 Nariman El-Mofty/AP Images As reports of...
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