South Korea: Backtracking on Rights Protections
Click to expand Image South Korean activists hold placards on discrimination against women during a protest to mark International Women's Day in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2021. Sign on the right...
View ArticleBelarus: Civil Society ‘Purge’
Click to expand Image Journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva, right, and Daria Chultsova embrace inside a defendants' cage in a court room in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. © 2021 AP (Berlin) –...
View ArticleRussia: Repression Escalates
Click to expand Image Police detain protesters at a rally against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, January 31, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky (Moscow) –...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Protect Human Rights During Crisis
Click to expand Image Police detain Khalida Akytkhan outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where relatives of people detained or disappeared in Xinjiang, China have been protesting for...
View ArticleBangladesh: Grave Rights Concerns Dismissed
Click to expand Image Activists hold placards during a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 1, 2021, following the death of Bangladeshi writer Mushtaq Ahmed in prison after his arrest under the...
View ArticleSingapore: Tightening the Screws on Speech
Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a building construction site in Singapore, May 29, 2021. © 2021 Suhaimi Abdullah/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – The Singapore government ramped up its...
View ArticleIndonesia: Covid-19 Response Overshadows Rights
Click to expand Image A woman receives a Covid-19 vaccine at North Sumatra University Hospital in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, November 26, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara (New York) – The...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Takeover Worsens Rights Crisis
Click to expand Image Afghan women wait in a line to receive cash at a money distribution organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 3, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Bram Janssen...
View ArticleCambodia: Activists Face Sustained Repression
Click to expand Image Cambodian prisoners, including Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, arrive by prison truck at the Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 18,...
View ArticleBrazil: Protect Voting, Speech Rights
Click to expand Image Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro watches a military parade in front of the presidential palace in Brasilia on August 10, 2021. © Matheus W Alves/Futura Press (São Paulo) –...
View ArticleThe Future for Autocrats is Darker Than It Seems
(Geneva) – Autocratic leaders faced significant backlash in 2021, but democracy will flourish in the contest with autocracy only if democratic leaders do a better job of addressing global problems,...
View ArticleMaldives: Extremist Attacks Go Unpunished
Click to expand Image Maldivian police secure area following a blast targeting former President Mohamed Nasheed, Malé, Maldives, May 6, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mohamed Sharuhaan (New York) – The...
View ArticleNepal: The Authorities are Failing to Protect Citizens
(New York) – Inadequate and unequal access to health care in Nepal was exacerbated during 2021 by government failures to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch said today in its World...
View ArticleGermany: Conviction for State Torture in Syria
Click to expand Image Photos of Syrians who have been detained or disappeared set up by Families for Freedom, as part of a protest in front of the court in Koblenz, July 2, 2020. © 2020 Alexander...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Covid-19 Used to Bludgeon Rights
Click to expand Image North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warns of possible food shortages during a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 15, 2021. © 2021 Korean Central News Agency/Korea...
View ArticleVietnam: Dozens of Rights Activists Detained, Tried
Click to expand Image Vietnamese Political Detainees and Prisoners, from upper left: Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Thi Tam, Trinh Ba Phuong, Pham Doan Trang, Le Trong Hung; lower left: Nguyen Tuong Thuy,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Coup Crushes Democratic Rule
Click to expand Image Medical workers stand in a “Red Ribbon Campaign” demonstration at a hospital in Mandalay, Myanmar, protesting against the military coup, February 3, 2021. © 2021 Kaung Zaw Hein...
View ArticleEU: Commitment to Rights Falters Under Stress
Click to expand Image Sara, 26, and Hassan, 24, both from Syria, sit on the ground in the forest in Lewosze, Poland, after crossing the border from Belarus, October 29, 2021. © 2021 REUTERS/Kacper...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Minorities, Activists Targeted
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan police enforce all-island travel restrictions amid Covid 19 pandemic in Sri Lanka, May 14, 2021. ©2021 AP Photo/ Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto (New York) – The Sri Lankan...
View ArticleGerman Court Orders Protection of People with Disabilities in Triage Decisions
Click to expand Image Plenary session in the Bundestag in Berlin, January 12, 2022. © 2022 ddp images/Sipa via AP Images In a December 2021 ruling, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ordered...
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