World Cup Draw Feted in Qatar, but Migrants Left in Lurch
On April 1, the final draw for the 2022 World Cup is set to take place in Qatar, which is hosting the tournament. This is a major event for football fans, who will be hoping for good luck and a...
View ArticleAct Now on Older People’s Rights
Click to expand Image Advocates for the rights of older people -- Elisha, from Tanzania (left), and Amarsanaa, from Mongolia -- attend the Open Ended Working Group on Ageing in New York, December...
View ArticleIran: Jailed Environmentalist Ends Hunger Strike
Click to expand Image Morad Tahbaz © 2015 Morad Tahbaz/Facebook (Beirut) – An Iranian-American-British conservationist convicted in Iran on bogus national security charges has ended his weeklong...
View ArticleCambodia: French Court Indicts Hun Sen Cronies
Click to expand Image A survivor points to a picture of herself on the 11th anniversary of the March 30, 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 30, 2008. © 2008 Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via...
View ArticleFIFA, Qatar Should Meet Rights Commitments
Click to expand Image Construction workers at the site of the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, Doha, Qatar, November 12, 2018. ©2018 Sharil Babu/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Beirut) – Journalists should...
View ArticleSudan: ICC Holds First Darfur Trial
Click to expand Image Ali Mohammed Ali, known as Ali Kosheib or Kushayb, in The Hague, Netherlands. during the opening of his confirmation hearing on charges for crimes in Darfur, Sudan. © 2021...
View ArticleUkraine: Russia Uses Banned Antipersonnel Landmines
Click to expand Image POM-3 antipersonnel mines that failed to deploy and remnants of its delivery canister found by deminers in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine on or around March 28. © March 2022,...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Broad ‘State of Emergency’ Risks Abuse
Click to expand Image Soldiers guard a checkpoint at the entrance of the Las Palmas Community, in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 27, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Salvador Melendez. (Washington, DC) – A...
View ArticleResponding to Taliban Attacks on Women’s Rights
Click to expand Image Afghan women demonstrate for girls’ secondary schools to reopen, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin March 21: Taliban announce girls’...
View ArticleBangladesh: Indigenous Activist Dies in Military Custody
Click to expand Image Activists of Chittagong Hill Tracts Jana Sanghati Samiti stage a protest rally demanding the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord, in Dhaka,...
View ArticleEnsure Funding for UN Investigation in Ethiopia
Click to expand Image Children in front of the Africa/Ayga hotel likely damaged by a direct fire weapon in Humera town, Tigray region, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020. © 2020 Eduardo Soteras for Agence...
View ArticleNew Evidence that Biometric Data Systems Imperil Afghans
Click to expand Image A United States military official takes the fingerprints of a man in Afghanistan. © 2010 AP Photo/Julie Jacobson The Taliban control systems holding sensitive biometric data...
View ArticleCracks in South Sudan’s Fragile Peace Could Further Harm Civilians
Click to expand Image South Sudan's president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after meetings on October 20, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File Clashes in...
View ArticleEU: No Business as Usual at China Summit
Click to expand Image European Council President Charles Michel, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen participate in a media conference at the conclusion of the 2020 EU-China...
View ArticleTaliban Intensify Attacks on Afghan Media
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters at main gate outside Kandahar city, Afghanistan, November 25, 2021. © 2021 Alfred Yaghobzadeh/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images “It’s so hard to report from Afghanistan...
View ArticleRestoring Access to Asylum at the US Border
Click to expand Image Asylum seeking families attend a traditional Las Posadas event at the US-Mexico border wall, on the Mexico side, December 15, 2020, in Douglas, Arizona. © 2020 AP Photo/Ross D....
View ArticleAustralia: Chemical Restraint Persists in Aged Care
Click to expand Image An older woman at a nursing home in Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia. © 2017 Karen McFarland/Shutterstock (Sydney) – The Australian government should end nursing homes’ use...
View ArticleUkraine: Civilians in Besieged Chernihiv Need Access to Essentials
Click to expand Image Damaged residential buildings in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, where civilians have had limited access to running water, electricity, or heat since Russian forces...
View ArticleIran: Women Blocked From Entering Stadium
Click to expand Image Female Iranian spectators cheer as they wave their country's flag during a friendly soccer match between Iran and Bolivia, at the Azadi (Freedom) stadium, in Tehran, Iran,...
View ArticleIndia: Rohingya Deported to Myanmar Face Danger
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees stand outside their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu, India, March 7, 2021. © AP Photo/Channi Anand (New York) – The Indian government’s forced return...
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