Refugees in Europe Need Mental Health Support
Click to expand Image Ukrainians who have fled the war wait outside an NGO-run center that helps refugees with urgent placement and documents on March 23, 2022 in Paris, France. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Herat Women’s Prison Head Missing 6 Months
Click to expand Image Alia Azizi. © Private (New York) – The women’s prison director in Herat, Afghanistan has been missing since October 2021 and is feared to have been forcibly disappeared, Human...
View ArticleA Bleak Future with Education Under Attack in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 19, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi Afghanistan’s children are...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Police Fire on Protesters
Click to expand Image Sri Lankans hold up their mobile phone torches during a vigil outside the president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena via AP,...
View ArticleEgypt: Release Autopsy Report, Investigate Suspicious Death
Click to expand Image Ayman Hadhoud. © Private (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should urgently release the autopsy report and investigate the suspicious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud, Human Rights...
View ArticleConfiscating Palestinian Land for a Horse Farm
Click to expand Image A horse farm (center) operated by Israeli settlers from Shaarei Tikvah settlement (left) on Palestinian-owned land next to the separation barrier (right) in the Israeli-occupied...
View ArticleGermany Tries Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Gambia
Click to expand Image Members of the Gambian paramilitary group known as the Junglers. The Junglers have been implicated in serious human rights violations including torture, enforced disappearances,...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Forces’ Trail of Death in Bucha
Russian forces committed a litany of apparent war crimes during their occupation of Bucha, a town about 30 kilometers northwest of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, from March 4 to 31, 2022, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleHungarian Groups Fight Fines for Supporting LGBT Rights
Click to expand Image Ballot papers are seen during the general parliamentary elections in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2022. © 2022 Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images Last week, Hungary’s Supreme...
View ArticleUN: Make Reporting on Covid-19 in Prisons Mandatory
Click to expand Image An inmate (right) wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) is supervised by a guard as he distributes meals to prisoners confined to their cells as part of measures to curb...
View ArticleMyanmar: ASEAN’s Failed ‘5-Point Consensus’ a Year On
Click to expand Image Activists protest the Myanmar military coup during an ASEAN summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2021. © 2021 Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Southeast Asian governments...
View ArticleVenezuela: Maduro Government Seeks to Delay ICC Investigation
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch (The Hague) – In light of the Venezuelan authorities’...
View ArticleIsrael: Release Long Detained Gaza Aid Worker
Click to expand Image Palestinian demonstrators hold posters of Mohammad al-Halabi, a humanitarian worker in Gaza who has been detained by Israel since June 2016 without being convicted of a crime,...
View ArticleMalaysia: End Secrecy on Major Land Deal in Sabah
Click to expand Image Danum Valley Conservation Area, State of Sabah, Borneo Island, Malaysia, August 5, 2019. © 2019 Emy/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images (Bangkok) – The Sabah state government in...
View ArticleFrance: Crucial Need for Macron to Focus on Rights
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech after his election victory in Paris, April 24, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – It is crucial for President Emmanuel...
View ArticleSouth Korean Court Limits Military ‘Sodomy’ Law
Click to expand Image The South Korean Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 21, 2022. © 2022 Chung Byung-hyuck/Newsis via AP In a victory for human rights in South Korea, the country’s Supreme...
View ArticleKenneth Roth to Step Down at Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Pierre Albouy (New York) – Human...
View ArticleUrgently Help Ukraine Civilians Flee Mariupol
Click to expand Image A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. © 2022 AP...
View ArticleJapan: Raise Rights on Southeast Asia Trip
Click to expand Image Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, April 8, 2022. © 2022 Rodrigo Reyes Marin, Pool...
View ArticlePakistan: Amend Abusive ‘Blood Money’ Laws
Click to expand Image Nazim Jhokio. © Private (New York) – The Pakistan government should amend provisions of the criminal law that treat murder and other serious offenses as private disputes, Human...
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