Unprotected by Labor Law, Child Farmworkers Risk Health and Lives
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A devastating new investigation by the New York Times found migrant children across the...
View ArticleCluster Munitions: Nigeria Ratifies Global Ban
Click to expand Image The remnants of a 9M27K-series cluster munition rocket after it deployed its submunitions in the Maram camp for the displaced near the village of Kafr Jales in the Idlib...
View ArticleGeorgia: Reconsider Mikheil Saakashvili’s Release on Medical Grounds
Click to expand Image Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili seen via video link from a clinic during a court hearing to consider his request to defer his six-year sentence for health...
View ArticleAngola: Hundreds Homeless in Forced Evictions, Demolitions
Click to expand Image A woman carries her child after their house was demolished in Zango 3 area of Luanda, Angola. © 2023 Private (Johannesburg) – The Angolan authorities should immediately suspend...
View ArticleDR Congo/France: Prioritize Rights Issues for Macron’s Visit
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi at the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, November 12, 2019. © 2019 Christian Liewig/Abaca/Sipa USA via...
View ArticleUN Describes Worsening Afghanistan Rights Crisis
Click to expand Image A woman at the site of a suicide attack on an education center claimed by a group affiliated with the Islamic State, in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 1, 2022. © 2022 Ebrahim...
View ArticleIranian Media Reports Hundreds of Schoolgirls Poisoned
Click to expand Image Students attend class in Tehran, Iran, November 22, 2021. © 2021 Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Iran’s reformist Etemad news agency reported on March 1 that over the...
View ArticleNew York Taxpayers Foot Bill for Abusive Police
Click to expand Image New York City police detain a legal observer during a peaceful protest in Mott Haven on June 4, 2020. © 2020 C.S. Muncy In an agreement made public yesterday, New York City will...
View ArticleKilling of Indigenous Leader in Ecuador Demands Thorough Investigation
Click to expand Image Eduardo Mendúa Facebook: Eduardo Mendúa Eduardo Mendúa, an A’i Cofán Indigenous leader, was shot dead on February 26 outside his home in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mendúa was an...
View ArticleCambodia: Opposition Leader Convicted on Bogus Charges
Click to expand Image Cambodia’s opposition leader Kem Sokha talks to the media at his home before leaving for a court hearing in Phnom Penh, January 16, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleDigital Dehumanization Paves Way for Killer Robots
Last month, members of the Stop Killer Robots campaign met in Costa Rica with 68 campaigners from 29 countries for their first in-person global conference since the Covid-19 pandemic. A central theme...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Judy Heumann
(New York) – Human Rights Watch mourns the passing of the pioneering disability rights activist Judy Heumann, a dear friend and board member. Heumann’s lifelong activism supporting the rights of people...
View ArticleNicaragua: UN Rights Council Should Renew Experts’ Mandate
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 ArticleInquest Highlights Abuses in Canada’s Immigration Detention
Click to expand Image Central East Correctional Centre in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, February 10, 2021. © 2021 Kawartha 411 A coroner’s inquest into the 2015 death of Abdurahman Hassan, a refugee from...
View ArticleUse Global Meeting to Highlight Bahrain’s Abuses
(Beirut) – Members of parliament from around the world attending this year’s Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Bahrain should use the assembly to raise concerns about the serious repression of human...
View ArticleUganda’s Parliament Threatens to Criminalize Homosexuality
Click to expand Image Ugandan activists attend a conference to promote homosexuals’ rights, in Kampala, Uganda, February 14, 2010. © 2010 Benedicte Desrus/Sipa Press via AP Images Once again, Ugandan...
View ArticleAluminum’s Amazon Footprint
Click to expand Image Ship refuels near a bauxite mine in Para state, Brazil, September 16, 2022. © 2022 Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Ford’s F-150 Lightning, the electric version of...
View ArticleObstetric Violence Violates Human Rights
Click to expand Image Delivery room in Argentina. © 2022 Authentic Images/Getty Images The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has helped to progress the fight against gender-based violence by...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Revise Draft Laws to Better Protect Women
Click to expand Image Participants protest against discrimination and gender-based violence during a rally held by members of feminist organizations and social activists in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
View ArticleGeorgia: ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill Tramples on Rights
Click to expand Image People take part in a protest against the controversial "foreign agents" bill outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia March 6, 2023. © 2023 Reuters/Irakli Gedenidze...
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