UAE Conference Attendees Warned against Criticizing Government
Click to expand Image Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2019. © 2019 Hamad Mohammed/Reuters Speakers at a recent climate and health summit in Abu Dhabi were advised by the conference...
View ArticleThailand: Upcoming Election Fundamentally Flawed
Click to expand Image Ethnic minority women make three-finger salutes during pro-democracy demonstration in Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 2023. © 2023 Pongmanat Tasiri / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (New...
View ArticleInvestigation Launches into Forcible Transfer of Children in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The overgrown playground of a residential institution for children in Kherson, Ukraine, where Russian forces allegedly took 46 children from, as seen on November 27, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleAfrican Human Rights Commission Affirms Intersex People’s Rights
Click to expand Image The 73rd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia. © 2022 Francisco Perez The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has...
View ArticleUkraine’s New Health Rules Spotlight Barriers to Emergency Contraception
Click to expand Image A customer walks out of a drugstore lit by a portable generator during a blackout in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv following massive Russian airstrikes on January 14, 2023....
View ArticleWeak UN Resolution on Libya Exposes EU Bias
Click to expand Image Migrants who were intercepted by Libyan authorities on a boat off the coast are held ahead of their transfer to a detention centre in Surman, Libya on May 12, 2022. © 2022 Mahmud...
View ArticleFrance Moves to Shut Down Environmental Group
Click to expand Image Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France on March 25, 2023. © 2023 Ugo...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Reject New Counterterrorism Bill
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan rights activists protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Act outside the United Nations office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 3, 2022. © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena/AP...
View ArticleExpulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers Jeopardizes Democracy
Click to expand Image Former Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, and former Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, raise their hands outside the House chamber after Jones and...
View Article20 Years After Deadly Attack, Free Press Still Threatened in Iraq
Click to expand Image A memorial poster for Jose Couso, a Spanish television cameraman killed by a U.S. tank shell which hit Baghdad's Palestine hotel, on a barricade outside the building, April 8,...
View ArticleChina: Quash Convictions of Prominent Rights Lawyers
Click to expand Image Left: Sophie Luo Shengchun, the wife of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, poses with a photo of him at her home in New York, US, July 28, 2022. Right: Chinese legal...
View ArticleIn Conflicting Decisions, Two US Judges Rule on Access to Safe Abortion Drug
Click to expand Image Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at a Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, US, January 13, 2023. ©...
View ArticleTunisia: Free Arbitrarily Detained Ex-Prime Minister
Click to expand Image Then-prime minister of Tunisia, Ali Laarayedh, delivers a speech during a news conference in Tunis, February 22, 2013. © 2013 AP Photo/Hassene Dridi (Tunis) – Tunisian...
View ArticleVietnam: Free Prominent Activist Blogger
Click to expand Image Vietnamese activist and blogger Nguyễn Lân Thắng. © 2012 Nguyễn Lân Thắng (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately drop all charges and release the well-known...
View ArticlePakistan: Farmers Forcibly Evicted for Urban Project
Click to expand Image A farmer herds sheep through farmland in the vicinity of the Ravi River project, in Lahore, Pakistan, December 8, 2021. © 2021 Betsy Joles/Bloomberg via Getty Images (New York,...
View ArticleMalaysia Repeals Mandatory Death Penalty
Click to expand Image An activist during a protest against the death penalty in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 23, 2022. © 2022 Vincent Thian/AP Images (Bangkok) – Malaysia’s abolition of the...
View ArticleBrazil: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights
Click to expand Image Indigenous people call for greater protection of their land and rights at the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia, an annual protest held by Indigenous peoples...
View ArticleUAE: Detainees Held Beyond Sentences
Click to expand Image Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2019. © 2019 Hamad Mohammed/Reuters (Beirut) – United Arab Emirates authorities are continuing to incarcerate at least 51 Emirati...
View ArticleUS Secretary of State Should Press Vietnam on Rights during Visit
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Washington, DC, US, on May 13, 2022. © 2022 Jose Luis Magana/AP Images United...
View ArticleOpposition Figure Convicted in Kazakhstan
Click to expand Image Zhanbolat Mamay, center, sits with his lawyers during a trial hearing in November 2022 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. © 2022 Private On April 10, a court in Almaty, Kazakhstan convicted...
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