OAS Leader Undermining Rights Body
(Washington, DC) – OAS member states should strongly condemn Secretary General Luis Almagro’s unilateral rejection of the candidate the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) appointed as...
View ArticleUN: Human Rights Council Should Act on Philippines
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Thousands Still Missing
Click to expand Image Civilians fleeing Kajo Keji county, toward the southern border with Uganda, April 27, 2017. © 2017 Jason Patinkin Civilians fleeing Kajo Keji county, toward the southern border...
View ArticleMalaysia: Proposed Law Reverses Police Reforms
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin attending parliament session at parliament lower house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, July 13, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Vincent Thian (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleLandmark Ruling Bolsters Disability Rights in Pakistan
Click to expand Image The Supreme court building is seen in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 17, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed A recent decision by Pakistan’s Supreme Court directs the federal and...
View ArticleSyria: Restart Efforts to Find Victims Kidnapped by ISIS
(Beirut) – Local authorities in northern Syria have failed to advance efforts to find people kidnapped by ISIS more than a year after its territorial defeat in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
View ArticleAnother Chance to Address Homophobic Violence in Armenia
Click to expand Image Rainbow flags for sale are photographed on June 24, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Earlier this month, Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeal ruled there had not been a proper investigation...
View ArticleVenezuela: A Police State Lashes Out Amid Covid-19
Click to expand Image National Guard soldiers and municipal police ride through the neighborhood of Petare in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 7, 2020, patrolling the area to make sure residents are...
View ArticleBelarus: Internet Disruptions, Online Censorship
Click to expand Image Protesters in Belarus, Minsk, holding up their smartphones. August 25, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Sergei Grits (Moscow) – Belarusian authorities are disrupting internet access and...
View ArticleEgypt: Veteran Human Rights Defender Bahey el-Din Hassan Sentenced to...
Click to expand Image Bahey el-Din Hassan. © Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (Beirut) – On 25 August 2020, the Fifth “Terrorism Circuit” of the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Bahey eldin...
View ArticleJordan: Release Prominent Cartoonist
Click to expand Image Emad Hajjaj. © 2020 Private (Amman) – Jordanian authorities should immediately release and drop abusive charges against Emad Hajjaj, a cartoonist, Human Rights Watch said today....
View ArticleHurricane Katrina in the US, 15 Years Later
Click to expand Image People protest in front of the storm damaged city hall in New Orleans, Louisiana, over the city’s response to Hurricane Katrina. © 2006 Brian Root Fifteen years ago, I sat in a...
View ArticleEU Member States Should Act on Philippines Abuses
Click to expand Image Veiled protesters, mostly relatives of victims of alleged extra-judicial killings, display placards during a protest outside the Philippine military and police camps in Quezon...
View ArticleNigeria’s Rising Number of Missing Persons
Click to expand Image Family members of the kidnapped Nigerian Chibok girls, Nigeria, October 18, 2016. © 2016 AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga Hundreds of people are missing from a town in northeast Nigeria...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Reviews Child Death Penalty Cases
Click to expand Image Ali al-Nimr is one of at least three Saudi men currently on death row for protest-related crimes committed when they were children. © 2011 Eshaparvathi/Creative Commons On August...
View ArticleArgentina: Legalize Abortion
(Washington, DC) – The life and health of anyone who is pregnant in Argentina will be at risk as long as access to abortion and post-abortion care remains heavily restricted, Human Rights Watch said in...
View ArticleMyanmar: End Harassment of Rakhine Media Outlets
Click to expand Image A screenshot of chief editor of Development Media Group (DMG), Aung Marm Oo. © 2015 Aung Marm Oo/Facebook (Bangkok) – Myanmar authorities should stop using criminal laws, website...
View ArticleLebanon Should Stop Excluding Children from School
Click to expand Image A classroom sits empty at a school in Loueizeh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Hussein Malla As another school year is about to begin in Lebanon, the...
View ArticleSyria: Health Workers Lack Protection in Pandemic
Click to expand Image A health worker with a face mask walks inside a hospital, as hospitals enforce a series of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Damascus,...
View ArticleCities Forcibly Evict Residents in South Africa
Click to expand Image A South Africa soldier guards the entrance of a housing development while flats are being emptied in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday Aug. 12, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Jerome...
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