Somalia: Free Detained Journalist
Click to expand Image Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, secretary general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate, speaks at a press conference along with other members from the Somali Media Association and the...
View ArticleTurkey: Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments
Click to expand Image Opposition Republican People's Party deputies hold signs in protest of a government-backed bill that criminalizes "disinformation," at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in...
View ArticleVideo Shows Azerbaijan Forces Executing Armenian POWs
Click to expand Image Smoke plumes and burn scars emerging around the Mets Ishkhanasar Mountain, as of September 13 2022, 09:19 am CET (11:19 am local time) . Satellite image © 2022 Planet Labs PBC....
View ArticleHonduras Should Commit to Protecting Women’s and Girls’ Rights
Click to expand Image Women participate in a march in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, for International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019. Some wear green handkerchiefs, a symbol of the abortion...
View ArticleWanted Ex-Intelligence Chief Returns to Congo
Click to expand Image Kalev Mutond, former director of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Intelligence Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements). Last week Kalev Mutond, the former director...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, Rights Setbacks for People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image A student with a white cane arrives at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2, 2012. © 2012 Omar Sobhani/Reuters Afghanistan started celebrating White Cane Safety Day in...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Don’t Deport Activists to Uzbekistan
Click to expand Image President Kassymjomar Tokayev of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyev sign a bilateral agreement in Tashkent on April 15, 2019. © 2019 Uzbekistani...
View ArticleWorld Food Day Amid a Global Food Crisis
Click to expand Image Afghan workers prepare food supplies during a humanitarian aid campaign in Kabul, February 16, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Hussein Malla Today is World Food Day, commemorating the...
View ArticleThe EU Continues to Acquiesce to Greece Border Abuses
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather in front of the Greek parliament in Athens during a protest against violence at the Greek-Turkish border on February 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Yorgos...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Draft ‘Rehabilitation’ Law Would Spur Abuse
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe visits the Army Headquarters in Colombo, August 9, 2022. © 2022 Ruwan Walpola/Pacific Press/Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The Sri...
View ArticleFire, Explosions Erupt at Evin Prison in Tehran
Click to expand Image A photo obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows damage caused by a fire in the notorious Evin prison, northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. ©...
View ArticleFIFA Yet to Back Workers’ Remedy Fund Despite Growing Support
Click to expand Image Workers outside Al Janoub Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar (New York) – FIFA has yet to officially...
View ArticleDR Congo: Army Units Aided Abusive Armed Groups
Click to expand Image People fleeing fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels near Kibumba in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 24, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa (Goma) –...
View ArticleUN Rights Body Fails Yemeni People, Again
Click to expand Image A Yemeni boy sits in a dry goods shop in a traditional market in Sanaa. The conflict has left many Yemenis on the brink of starvation and food prices have spiked again amid an...
View ArticleCivilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region at Heightened Risk
Click to expand Image Displaced Tigrayans sit alongside metal shacks at a reception center for internally displaced people in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 9, 2021. © 2021...
View ArticleHaiti: Urgently Address Cholera Outbreak
Click to expand Image A tent where people suffering cholera symptoms are treated at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 7, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph...
View ArticleIraq: Iran Attacks Kill Civilians in Kurdistan Region
Click to expand Image A member of an Iranian opposition party based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq lies injured on a hospital bed following Iranian air attacks, September 28, 2022. © 2022 Ismael...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Forces Tortured Izium Detainees
(Kyiv, October 19, 2022) – Russian forces and others operating under their command routinely tortured detainees during their six-month occupation of Izium, a city in the Kharkiv region of northeastern...
View ArticleAll Children Have a Right to Pre-Primary Education
Click to expand Image Children attend a lesson at a preschool in Molieres, France, September 5, 2017. © 2017 ERIC CABANIS/AFP via Getty Images The “time has come” for countries to align their...
View ArticleIndonesia Shamelessly Abandons Uyghurs
Click to expand Image Indonesia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters, September 26,...
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