Peru: Egregious Abuses by Security Forces
Click to expand Image Relatives and friends of people killed during demonstrations in Juliaca, Peru, carry pictures of their loved ones at a February 9, 2023, march commemorating one month since their...
View ArticlePope Francis Should Stress Equal Treatment of Refugees During Hungary Visit
Click to expand Image Police patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border barrier near Kelebia, Hungary, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Marton Monus/Reuters Pope Francis’ visit to Hungary from April 28-30 is an...
View ArticleHong Kong Arrest Encroaches on Free Expression in Japan
Click to expand Image Japanese Foreign Ministry's senior official Shigeo Yamada, second right, speaks to Chinese counterpart Sun Weidong, second left, during the Japan-China security dialogue at the...
View ArticleA Chance for Justice in Burundi
Click to expand Image Burundi's former Prime minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni at the Ingoma stadium in Gitega, Burundi, on June 26, 2020. © 2020 Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP via Getty Images The arrest of...
View ArticleMozambique Legalizes Militia to Fight Insurgency in North
Click to expand Image Mozambican soldiers in Mocímboa da Praia, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, on September 27, 2022. © 2022 Camille Lafont/AFP via Getty Images by Nirvaly Mooloo, Intern,...
View ArticleAfghanistan Special Envoys Should Hold Firm Line on Rights
Click to expand Image Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General, at a press briefing at UN headquarters in New York, January 25, 2023. © 2023 Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock On May 1, United...
View ArticleTurkish Border Guards Torture, Kill Syrians
Click to expand Image A picture of the cement wall separating Syria and Turkey near Haram in Northwest Syria on March 14, 2023. © 2023 Ali Haj Suleiman (Beirut) – Turkish border guards are...
View ArticleTanzania: Maasai Forcibly Displaced for Game Reserve
Click to expand Image Tanzanian Maasai women evicted from their land in Loliondo sit outside a Maasai manyatta, a traditional house made with branches, mud, and cow-dung, in a village in Narok, Kenya,...
View ArticleThailand: Detained Uyghur Asylum Seeker Dies
Click to expand Image An immigration detention center in the Sathorn area of Bangkok, where human rights activists believe that a group of Uyghurs are being detained, September 30, 2022. © 2022 Jack...
View Article34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York
Click to expand Image Seven Winters in Tehran. Photo: Courtesy of Made in Germany. (New York) – The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th year, will present a full edition of 10...
View ArticlePhilippines: Drop Cases Against Critics Before US Visit
Click to expand Image Activist groups hold a protest at Plaza Miranda in Manila during the inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as president of the Philippines, June 30, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP...
View ArticleFrench Police Forcibly Oust Undocumented Migrants from Mayotte
Click to expand Image A French gendarme stands guard during the demolition of an informal settlement in Longoni, Mamoudzou, on the island of Mayotte on April 27, 2023. © 2023 Patrick Meinhardt/AFP...
View ArticleNew York Takes Step to Reduce its Contribution to Deforestation
Click to expand Image Deforestation due to plant palm oil plantations near Sandakan city, State of Sabah, North Borneo Island, Malaysia, August 5, 2019. © 2019 Emy/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images On...
View ArticleTokyo Confirms Myanmar Military Misused Japan-Funded Ships
Click to expand Image A Myanmar protester raises three-finger salutes during a rally to mark the second anniversary of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, outside Myanmar’s embassy in Tokyo, February 1,...
View ArticleUzbekistan/Germany: Make Human Rights Key Component of Talks
Click to expand Image President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivers a speech at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 22, 2021. © Government of...
View ArticleThailand: Free Girl Detained for ‘Defaming Monarchy’
Click to expand Image Student activist Thanalop “Yok” Phalanchai, photographed at age 14, has been held in pretrial detention on royal defamation charges since March 29, 2023. © Thanalop Phalanchai...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council Should Respond to Sudan Crisis
Click to expand Image A building damaged during fighting between the forces of two rival Sudanese generals in Khartoum, April 23, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images Since fighting broke out in Khartoum...
View ArticleFighting Devastates Sudan’s West Darfur
Click to expand Image People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, after fighting between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces, April 29, 2023. ©...
View ArticleTop Russian Activist Indicted
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov and his lawyer, Ekaterina Tertukhina, at the prosecutor’s office in Moscow when they received his indictment. © 2023 Memorial Last weekend, Russian authorities moved...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Apparent War Crimes in Border Conflict
Click to expand Image Forces from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan killed and injured civilians in apparent war crimes during their brief but intense armed border conflict in September 2022. The...
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