Record Canada Heat Harms Older People and People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image A person enters the Hillcrest Community Centre, where they can cool off during the extreme hot weather in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 30, 2021. © 2021 Don...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked
Click to expand Image Prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul. © Private (Beirut) – New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons,...
View ArticleJapan: Olympics Should Benefit Human Rights
Click to expand Image Supporters of Equality Act Japan gather in front of parliament before they submit a petition in Tokyo on March 25, 2021. © Kyodo News via AP (Tokyo) – Japan should address...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Protect Garment Workers’ Rights During Pandemic
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan health officials collect swab samples from people to test for the coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 10, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena (New York) –...
View ArticleRussia: Court Convicts Rights Defender
Click to expand Image Semyon Simonov © 2020 Private (Moscow) – A court in Sochi, Russia, has convicted a prominent human rights defender on criminal charges related to the country’s “foreign agents”...
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities in Mexico Should Be Counted
Click to expand Image The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information building in Aguascalientes City, Mexico on July 19, 2018. © 2018 Agencia EL UNIVERSAL/EELG/GDA via AP Images In a...
View ArticleRemembering Suha Jarrar, Trailblazing Palestinian Rights Defender
Last night, Suha Jarrar, research and advocacy officer at Palestinian human rights organization al-Haq, died at her home in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Over her 31 years, Suha made an...
View ArticleCongo Mourns Death of ‘Tata Cardinal’
Click to expand Image Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo from the Democratic Republic of Congo arrives at the Synod hall in the Vatican on February 13, 2015. © 2015 Eric Vandeville/Sipa USA/AP Images Tributes...
View ArticleUS Should Help Afghan Civil Society Partners at Risk
Click to expand Image A US flag is lowered as American and Afghan soldiers attend a handover ceremony from the US Army to the Afghan National Army, at Camp Anthonic, in Helmand province, southern...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Respect Rights While Policing Riots
Click to expand Image A man suspected of looting is arrested at a shopping mall in Soweto, near Johannesburg, Tuesday July 13, 2021. © 2021 Themba Hadebe/AP Photo (Johannesburg) – South African...
View ArticleEcuador: Criminalizing Abortion Affects Rights, Health
(Washington, D.C.) – Ecuador’s laws criminalizing abortion violate the rights and risk the lives and health of women and girls, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 128-page report,...
View ArticlePakistan: Pass Anti-Torture Bill
Click to expand Image A Pakistani police officer monitors the area during a Shiite Muslim's Muharram procession in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed (New...
View ArticleNew Pledges to End Child Marriage in Francophone Africa
Click to expand Image A girl holds the hand of a boy in Agadez, Niger on October 9, 2018. © 2018 Scott Peterson/Getty Images Earlier in July, governments, philanthropies, and the private sector...
View ArticleCuba Responds to Landmark Demonstrations with Brutal Repression
Click to expand Image Plainclothes officers detain a protester during a protest in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. © 2021 Ramon Espinosa/AP Images Since July 11, thousands of Cubans have taken...
View ArticleIran: Alleged Plot to Kidnap Prominent Dissident in US
Click to expand Image Journalist and author Masih Alinejad speaks at a conference in New York City, on October 16, 2018. © 2018 Larry Busacca/Getty Images (New York) – The United States Justice...
View ArticleNorth Korea Takes UN Hypocrisy to New Heights
Click to expand Image Visitors pay homage to the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il ahead of the 27th anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 7,...
View ArticleBelarus: Unprecedented Raids on Human Rights Defenders
Click to expand Image Belarusian riot police block the road to stop demonstrators during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus on November 15,...
View ArticleJapan: Stop Real Estate Project in Myanmar
Click to expand Image Activists demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on June 18, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. © 2021 Kazuki Oishi/Sipa USA (Tokyo) – Japanese business entities...
View ArticleUK National Food Strategy Has Game-Changing Potential
Click to expand Image Students eat lunch at Chertsey High School on March 09, 2021 in Chertsey, United Kingdom. © 2021 Dan Kitwood/Getty A major independent review of the United Kingdom’s food...
View ArticleAustralia: 8 Years of Abusive Offshore Asylum Processing
Click to expand Image Asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the detention of refugees amid the Covid-19 crisis in Brisbane, Australia on May 1, 2020. © 2020 Florent Rols /SOPA...
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